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Multi-periodSite Name: RawakCountry: China
NOTE: This site is 21.022 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Latitude: 37.204722N Longitude: 80.948888E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in China
Ancient, abandoned Silk Road settlement and Buddhist centre in the Taklamakan Desert, Xinjiang, western China.
Explored by Aurel Stein and other Europeans in the early 20th century.
The lat-long reference is from a Wikipedia page, "List of Archaeological Sites of the Taklamakan and Lop Desert"
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