700 a.C. – 1644 d.C. · 4 sítios
Country Record
Longest Recorded History in China
700 a.C. – 1644 d.C.
The vast frontier fortification system of northern China — rammed-earth Qin walls and the iconic stone Ming battlements — remains the single most conspicuous monumental gap left in a global archaeological atlas.
300 d.C. – 800 d.C.
The earliest large complex of Buddhist rock-cut cave temples on the northern Silk Road, carved into cliffs above the Muzart River near Kucha — murals of Indo-Iranian and Central Asian style that predate and influenced later Chinese grotto art.
Continent Record
Northernmost Known Site in Asia
200 a.C. – 1400 d.C.
A spectacular cliff-top ruined city carved and built on a loess plateau between two river channels near Turpan — capital of the Nearer Jushi kingdom and later a key Silk Road garrison town, abandoned to the desert winds but retaining streets, Buddhist temples, and housing cut into yellow earth.
100 a.C. – 500 d.C.
A Silk Road oasis settlement swallowed by desert sands in the southern Tarim Basin — excavated wooden houses, orchards, and bilingual administrative documents that illuminate daily life in the Kroraina (Loulan) cultural sphere under Kushan and Chinese spheres of influence.
