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Hetian (CNS) -- The ruins of an ancient Buddhist temple in the Taklamakan Desert have been discovered by the Xinjiang archeological team of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The ruins are located in the southern part of the desert in Cele county of Hetian (Hotan), according to the local administration of cultural heritage on Saturday.
The height of the sitting Buddha statue at the temple is about two meters, and the height of the temple's main hall may reach as high as six meters, said Wu Xinhua, leader of the archaeological team.
The temple represents the largest in the Taklamakan Desert in terms of scale, he added.
Judging from the layout of the ruins and the artifacts uncovered at the site, Wu and his colleagues dated the temple back to the late Western Han Dynasty.
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