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-Xinhua Silk Road: A museum showing the culture of China's largest prehistoric stone city opens to the public

BEIJING, Nov. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A museum dedicated to Shimao culture, which is an archaeological site with a stone-built city dating back approximately 4,000 years, opened to the public on Wednesday, showing the important value and the unique position of the Shimao culture in the origin of Chinese civilization.

Shimao Museum, located in Shenmu City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, covers an area of ​​12,890 square meters. It displays a collection of 688 pieces or sets of artifacts unearthed at the Shimao site and those related to the Shimao culture, including jade, stoneware, pottery, bone tools and colorful murals, in an exhibition area of ​​5,943 square meters.

The Shimao site, covering approximately 4.2 million square meters, is considered the largest prehistoric stone city in China ever discovered.

Since a systematic archaeological survey conducted in 2012, notable discoveries have been unearthed, including remains of house foundations in neat rows and high-level cemeteries. The relics then become an important part of the study of early Chinese civilization.

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