Russian and Chinese archaeologists could date it.
This was the first time that such field research was carried out exclusively by Chinese archaeologists using modern methods.
Many thousands of artefacts found by Chinese archaeologists since 1958 were removed to the Urumqi Museum.
He was a Chinese modern archaeologist and studied the history and geography of northwest China.
The largely intact tomb was excavated by Chinese archaeologists in 1979-1980.
In the years that followed, Chinese archaeologists who had trained in the West led efforts to find the origins of their civilization.
Yuan Zhongyi (袁仲一, born 1932) is a Chinese archaeologist.
The building, known as F901, is described by Chinese archaeologists as a communal meeting hall.
This most recent discovery prompted Chinese archaeologists to investigate, and they unearthed the largest pottery figurine group ever found in China.
With the exception of its front hall, it was never completed according to findings by Chinese archaeologists.