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Pre-Tang
Ruins Found in Nanjing
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????Chinese archaeologists
digging in Nanjing, capital of the coastal Jiangsu Province, recently
found the remains of a structure built before the Tang Dynasty
(618-907), the first of the kind ever found in eastern China.
????Working in an area east of downtown Nanjing,
archaeologists discovered fragments of a large stone carving and
wall foundations, which were believed to belong to a temple of
the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
????The experts dated their findings to the
pre-Tang era, saying patterns on the stone carving were similar
to those common to wall paintings and buildings in grottoes like
Dunhuang in the northwest, and in Buddhist pagodas before the
Tang Dynasty.
(People's Daily 02/05/2001)
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