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Article: Archaeological Remains Rescued in Hong Kong
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 6, 1999
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Archaeologists from Hong Kong and China's mainland are working
together on a large-scale rescue excavation at Ho Chung, Sai Kung,
to
salvage cultural remains which could date back 4,000 years.
The Ho Chung Archaeological Site is located at the eastern part
of
Hong Kong's "New Territories". The site would be destroyed by a
proposed highway improvement project.
The rescue excavation is directed by the Antiquities and
Monuments
Office of Home Affairs Bureau of Hong Kong with the assistance from
the Anthropology Department of Zhongshan University, the Guangxi
Autonomous Regional Archaeological Team and the Hunan Institute of
Cultural Relics and Archaeology from the mainland.
Nearly 50 ...