China Road Builders Wreck Ancient Ruins
A construction crew destroyed the valuable ruins of a Bronze Age village dating back 3,000 years when it leveled the site with bulldozers, the official China Daily newspaper reported.
The paper said Friday that the construction team, building a highway near the northeastern coastal city of Dalian, ignored a contract under which it was to route the road around the ruins. It said the road builders crushed priceless relics and caused irreparable losses.
Archeologists were not at the excavation site at the time because it was the summer rainy season. Excavation work began last March and, by the beginning of June, 1,000 relics and 20 complete sites of houses had been unearthed, the newspaper said.
The site, which covered 7,000 square yards, contained valuable information about northeastern China in the early Bronze Age, it said.
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