Jottings from the Granite Studio

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Afternoon Tea: Olympic treasures, Shaanxi murders, and no zhou for me

January 27th, 2007 · 15 Comments

ABC news reports that over 1100 cultural relics were unearthed last year at construction sites for Olympic venues in and around Beijing, including several tombs dating from the Ming dynasty located a few hundred yards away from the proposed site of an Olympic shooting range. So far over 700 tombs dating from the Han through [...]

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