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Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus South Campus and double-whining to find ancient tombs? On December 13, a student of Sun Yat-sen University posted that the suspected ancient tomb on the section from Huaishitang to Yifulou on the south campus of the school's Guangzhou campus was discovered by the campus construction team while digging a water pipe.
The reporter learned from the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that earlier in the day, teachers and students majoring in archaeology at the School of Sociology and Anthropology of Sun Yat-sen University had already inspected the site and made surveying and mapping records.
The Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has followed up according to the procedures and sent people to the site to investigate, and the latest progress will be released in the follow-up. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
Bricks cleared from the construction site
From the photos provided by the students, it can be seen that a long ditch was dug at the site, the ditch was about a meter deep, and a large amount of dirt was piled up on the ground. In the dirt on the side of the middle ditch wall, a wall made of bricks can be seen. Several staff members were scrutinizing the ditch, while others rummaged through the dirt piled up on the ground, and a large pile of cleared bricks lay on the nearby grass.
Rumors on the Internet said that tang tombs were dug up at the scene. However, this claim has not been confirmed.
Suspected tomb site was found
Previously, the campus of Sun Yat-sen University has excavated ancient tombs many times. As early as 1981, the Zhongda Electric Education Building excavated an ancient tomb from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the teachers and students of the Archaeology Department of the Anthropology Department of the university personally excavated and cleaned up. In 2006, 22 ancient tombs were discovered on the north campus of Sun Yat-sen University's Guangzhou campus. In January 2019, 13 ancient tombs were excavated near Chunhui Garden, the south campus of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus, including 1 Eastern Han Tomb, 2 Ming Tombs, and 10 Qing Tombs. In the Tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty alone, 35 pieces (sets) of cultural relics were excavated.
The site of the suspected ancient tomb was found (the picture comes from the public account "Shuangyashan Today")
Why have ancient tombs been found many times on the south campus of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus? It is understood that this area is suitable for the production and life of the ancients, and then buried here after death, so ancient tombs and cultural relics have been surprised many times.
In 2019, a number of ancient tombs were excavated near the school's Chunhui Garden, and archaeologists introduced in an interview that the canteen project plot of the east area of the south campus of cuhk Guangzhou Campus was located in the underground cultural relics burial area of "Kangle Village - Xingang West Road", and was announced as the first batch of underground cultural relics burial areas in Guangzhou in 2014. In this area, there are Fenggang, Magangding and other hills, the terrain is higher, in the past, Neolithic relics have been found, excavated Eastern Han Tombs.
The reporter inquired about the published papers and found that in 1904, the private Lingnan University (then named "Lingnan Xuetang") moved to Kangle Township. In May 1913, the school was sued by the owner of the grave for purchasing a grave hill near Kangle Township. After the newspaper's confession of land purchase, the campus continued to expand to 135 acres by 1918.
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