Beijing Olympics archeology

About 1,100 cultural relics were unearthed at Beijing Olympic venue construction sites last year, state media reported on Thursday.

Not just the odd potsherd, either:

The relics were discovered at 10 different venues and included about 700 tombs dating from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Xinhua news agency said, citing Shu Xiaofeng, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics.

And I'm sure all have been carefully and thoroughly excavated and recorded. Sounds as if the finds in China have greatly outnumbered those resulting from the construction of the Athens Olympic sites. From Reuters.

Posted by David on January 18, 2007 2:55 PM