On December 13, news came from a construction site on the south campus of Sun Yat-sen University's Guangzhou campus that an ancient tomb had been excavated at the construction site.
According to Yang, who witnessed the scene, when he passed the road from Huaishitang to YifuLou, he saw that the construction site for laying the sewer pipe was plugged with a Luoyang shovel, and the teachers and classmates of the Archaeology Department were busy excavating, "I heard that the ancient tomb was excavated."
There is a precedent for the discovery of ancient tombs on the south campus of CUHK. In January 2019, a number of ancient tombs were found on the construction site of the south campus of sun yat-sen university in Guangzhou, which attracted attention.
In January 2019, several ancient tombs were excavated at the construction site of the South Campus of Sun Yat-sen University.
In 1961, the archaeology teaching and research team of CUHK excavated two Han Dynasty tombs on campus, and in 1981, CUHK discovered an Eastern Han tomb at the construction site of the electronic education building. At that time, the faculty of the Department of Anthropology led all the students of the class of 1977 and 1979 to excavate and clean up the tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty at the construction site of the electric education building.
In 2014, the South Campus of CUHK was announced as the "First Batch of Underground Cultural Relics Burial Areas in Guangzhou" as part of the "Kangle Village - Xingang West Road Underground Cultural Relics Burial Area". According to experts, the south campus of CUHK has a high terrain, which is suitable for the production and life of the ancients and is buried after death. Judging from the current archaeological discoveries and geographical research results, Haizhu District of Guangzhou City in the Han Dynasty is not a large island now, but a small island formed by the highlands of Baogang, Xiaogang, Chigang and Magangding.
[Reporter] Wang Xiangbo
(The picture of this article is provided by the interviewees and CUHK alumni)
【Author】 Wang Xiangbo
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