Ancient bamboo slips sheds light on building of Great Wall

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Ancient bamboo slips sheds light on building of Great Wall

Beijing, Mar 25 : Archaeologists in China's Hunan province have found some 36,000 priceless bamboo slips, about 35,000 of which bear authentic records which could shed more light on the building of the world-famous Great Wall.

The bamboo slips, ingrained in official scripts, provide a detailed, encyclopaedic account of the imperial Qin Dynasty (221-206 B.C.), including politics, military affairs, ethnicity, economics, law, culture, geography and administration, a noted researcher with Hunan Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Zhang Chunlong said.

These historic records, believed to have been kept by the Qin court, will shed light on their researches on the politics, culture and economics of Qin Dynasty, Zhang said...cont'd

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