300-Foot-Wide Ancient Altar Excavated in China
Found in China's far northwest, the ruins suggest the cultural link between region's east and west was strong even before the Silk Road.
New Discovery: Sun-Worshippers Built This Massive Altar 3,000 Years Ago
By Sarah Gibbens
PUBLISHED June 27, 2017
In a remote corner of northwest China, a recently excavated 3,000-year-old sun altar offers clues to how the region's tribal cultures practiced religion thousands of years ago.
The ruins were discovered in 1993, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, but were not excavated until last year. Archaeologists can now confirm their initial suspicions that the site was used as a sun altar during the Bronze Age.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/xinjiang-sun-altar-ancient-china-archaeology-spd/
