Liangzhu Ancient City Relic Site
Neolithic walled city with engineered dams, stone-based ramparts, and jade-filled royal tombs.
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This guide to the Liangzhu Ancient City Relic Site in Hangzhou begins in 2006, when archaeologists digging in a rice paddy struck a buried layer of stone. It follows what they found about a city roughly five thousand years old, the dams built in the surrounding hills, and the platform at its heart where the palaces stood. Best heard standing at the edge of the fields, where the low grassy mounds are in view.
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