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China plans to build a museum at the ancient Dadiwan Ruins in northwestern Gansu Province to better protect relics unearthed at the site.
Preparations are well underway and plans are being discussed by experts for the museum to have a floor space of 1,500 square meters for exhibiting unearthed relics from the ruins, which date back 5,000 to 8,000 years.
Visitors will have a chance to see ancient villages, rivers and natural scenes outside the museum, said Cui Kai, vice-president of the China Architect Designing Institute.
Cui did not disclose when the construction on the museum will begin or when it will be completed.
Located at the Qingshui River valley and the hillside on the southern bank of the river, the Dadiwan Ruins cover an area stretching for 1.1 million square meters.
Over the past 20 years, Chinese archaeologists have excavated from the site China's earliest painting, writing, colored pottery, crop seed strain specimen and buildings showing the development from a rural to an urban society.
Also excavated were a large number of stove ruins, ash pits, tombs, kilns and ditches, as well as pottery ware, stone tools and animal skeletons.
All these discoveries are 1,000 to 2,000 years older than previous similar archaeological discoveries in other parts of China, according to archaeologists.
These cultural relics, older than any so far recorded in any historical book, suggest that the age of China's civilization might be longer than the orthodox 5,000 years, some Chinese archaeologists noted.
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