In the year 1978, in order to search for the traces of ancients living in Xia Dynasty (2070BC-1600BC), archeologists embarked on a 6-year-long journey to excavate and explore the Taosi site at Xiangfen County of Shanxi Province. During the course of excavation, constantly heard were reports on fabulous discoveries of rare treasures out of the tombs one after another. The whole archeological team was bubbling over with ecstasy, the whole academia was dumbfounded with excitement. So large in scale were the big tombs and so rarely found were the unearthed treasures that it goes without saying that the buriers in the tombs were far more than ordinary people and the land where they rested was likewise far more than an ordinary place.
In the year 2000,archeologists launched a second excavation of the Taosi site in order to explore the origin of the Chinese civilization and how the early kingdoms came into being. Since then till now, the work has been going on for another 6 years, which has witnessed many significant discoveries, including the unparalleled large city site, the big tombs of the nobility, the earliest observatory and the like. One ShOCKing fact in particular is the city site covering an area of up to 2,800,000 square metres, which is equal in size to the total of four Forbidden Cities. Naturally it has become the largest of the prehistoric city sites existent in China at present.
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