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Most of the ancient city was buried by quicksand. A section of the north city wall remains, and the other three walls are no longer traceable. The wall is curved. The remaining city wall is about 100 meters long, 2.60 meters high, and 1.80 meters thick. The walls are made of adobe. There are inscribed symbols on the bottom of the soil block, and these characters-like symbols are carved with fingers or branches. The city wall has two parts: the lower part is wide enough for the guards to walk around in the city, and the upper part is a breast wall with a row of square lookout holes at equal intervals for observation and defense. Due to years of wind erosion, the ancient city has fallen below the original surface of the wall About 4 to 5 meters.
The range of historical sites around the ancient city of Akspili is very wide, and the ruins of the ancient city are actually only on the east side of this area. The historical sites are located in the desert with stretching sand dunes, about 5 to 6 kilometers wide from east to west, and more than 20 kilometers long from north to south, and connected to Yulong Kashi Oasis in the south. It is adjacent to Hanggui Township in the east, Jiya Township in the west, and the depths of the desert in the north. On the hilly lowlands of this desert, there are many pottery fragments, and the house foundations and field canals can be clearly identified. Regarding this historic site, the earliest Chinese records can be found in the book "Xinjiang Travel Notes". In the outer room, sometimes quicksand opens up, and the city corridor looks like a city corridor, and the furniture is equipped, and there are a lot of valuables."
In 1957, the ancient city was designated as a key cultural relic protection unit in the autonomous region by the people's government of the autonomous region.