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The Shenmu Shimao (mǎo) site is a large-scale city site from the late Longshan to early Xia that has been discovered in China. It is located on the hillside of the Tuwei River in Shimao Village, Gaojiabao Town, Shenmu County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, on the northern edge of the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi. The Shimao site is about 4,000 years old and covers an area of about 4.25 million square meters. This former "Stone City" lived for more than 300 years. In 1976, when Dai Yingxin, a professor of the Department of Archeology of Northwest University, was investigating in Shanxi, he heard some information about the sacred tree Shimao from Shanxi folks, so he went to Shimao for investigation. Since then, archaeological teams from Xi'an and Beijing have carried out archaeological excavations on it. . In 2006, Shenmu Shimao was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit. The Shimao site was selected as "the eve of Chinese civilization" in the top ten new archaeological discoveries in 2012, "the world's top ten field archaeological discoveries" and "the world's major archaeological discoveries in the 21st century".
opening hours
08:00-17:00 throughout the year; the specific business status is subject to the opening of the day.
