Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe YANSHI CITY, China, July 25 (UPI) -- Archaeologists said Sunday the palace city discovered in Yanshi City, China, may be older than 3,600 years. "The design of the city had erected a model for later dynasties in designing their capital," said Dr. Xu Hong, who leads the archaeological investigation team at the Erlitou site of the Institute of Archaeology, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, reported Xinhua, China's main government-run news agency. Advertisement Xu said two groups of palaces were unearthed in the palace city. "Either palace group has a clear central line as all large constructions and roads are distributed evenly at either side of the line," Xu said. Before the discovery of the palace city at the Erlitou site, the earliest city site can be identified in China is the Yanshi Shang Town, which was built about 3,600 years ago.
