USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文双语Français
Home / China

Quotable

China Daily | Updated: 2014-08-18 07:25

The man had a protruding nasal bone and a sunken nasion, which are typical features of Europeans."

Zhang Quanchao, a professor at Jilin University's Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, said that a skull, found in a 1,400-year-old tomb in Guyuan, the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, probably was that of a man of European origin. The tomb was built in the early Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907), and the finding is the latest evidence of ancient exchanges along the ancient Silk Road that connected China with Europe through trade and culture.

Quotable

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US