The piece of oracle bone inscribed with the characters Qin ren (the Qin people) Photo: Courtesy of Shaanxi Provincial ...

Of the gates in the old inner walls, only the southern gate, Zhengyangmen, remains intact. Originally, the outer side if each city gate was frontier by fortifications. An essential part of the ...

Among them was a southern gate called the Duanli Gate," Guo says. Ding says that the location of the discovery accords with historical records, and its shape and size all suggest that it was the ...