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2 unusual facts about Astana Cemetery


Astana Cemetery

According to the Chinese histories, the Shiji and Hanshu, the original inhabitants east of the Tianshan to the beginning of the first millennium AD, the Jushi, were a people who 'lived in felt-tents, kept moving in pursuit of water and grass for grazing, and had a fair knowledge of farming.'

The site was visited by many of the archaeological expeditions sent by various imperial powers to Chinese Central Asia in the first two decades of the 20th century, among them the Russian Sergey Oldenburg between 1909–10, the German expeditions led by Albert Grünwedel (Nov 1902-March 1903) and Albert von Le Coq (1904-7, 1913-4) and the Japanese expeditions of Ōtani Kōzui in 1902.



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