Chinese shovel helps to reveal ancient city

Archaeologists teaming up to rediscover the past of the Silk Road

BEIJING - Wang Cunjin, 61, a farmer from a village in northern China, never thought he would go abroad and help discover a lost ancient city, thousands of kilometers from home.

For the past two years, Wang has worked in a Chinese archaeological team in Uzbekistan each fall and spent more than two months there digging at the Mingtepa ruins in the Fergana Valley.