Discovering ancient Silk Road: mystery of a tomb cluster

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Discovering ancient Silk Road: mystery of a tomb cluster

STORY: Discovering ancient Silk Road: mystery of a tomb cluster DATELINE: May 25, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: QINGHAI, China CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the evacuation site of the 2018 Xuewei No.1 Tomb, offered by the evacuation team 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): HAN JIANHUA, Associate researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): HAN JIANHUA, Associate researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): HAN JIANHUA, Associate researcher with the Institute of Archaeology under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences STORYLINE: Dulan County, NW China's Qinghai Years of excavation work at Xuewei No.1 Tomb, a high-profile tomb on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has uncovered many mysteries. Archaeologists believe that the craftsmanship and design of some burial objects of the Xuewei No.1 Tomb have Central and West Asian ethnic features, indicating the area used to be a

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