Located in a desert no-man's land 90 kilometers southeast of Yuli County, Xinjiang, the Site of The Queyak Kuduk Beacon is one of the peacock river beacon groups of the national key cultural relics protection unit.
This beacon is composed of buildings such as the beacon body and residential houses, and is a comprehensive military facility with complete structure and complete functions.
From 2019 to 2021, archaeologists from the Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated it archaeologically, unearthed more than 1,450 pieces (groups) of various relics, and clearly defined the beacon as the Tang Dynasty "sand pile beacon".
In the Tang Dynasty, the central government successively set up two major capital protectorates in the western region, Anxi and Beiting, to rule the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. The construction of many military facilities represented by the Keyak Kuduk Beacon formed a complete town defense system for the four towns of Anxi, ensuring the effective jurisdiction and governance of the central government of the Tang Dynasty over the western regions.
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