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Archaeologists discovered a 2.5-kilometer-long street     1     (date) back nearly 2,000 years on the site of the ancient capital of Luoyang in Central China’s Henan Province. The road, about 34 meters wide,     2     (be) once a major east-west street extending between the relic sites of Ximingmen     3     Qingyangmen in the southern part of Luoyang. The street     4     (build) in the Eastern Han Dynasty and continued in use for a period of around 500 years.

The discovery was made during the diggings that started in 2020,     5     (lead) by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Liu Tao, a researcher with the institute explained researchers conducting the digging at the site obtained information on the location, direction and structure of the street, and the condition of     6     (vary) underground relics. The road section shows different soil layers from different time periods. Graves from the Han Dynasty and a large number of     7     (coin) from the Xin Dynasty were found on the lower layers of the road sections.

“Over 500 years of the capital city’s history is reflected in the road sections,” said Guo Xiaotao, another researcher with the institute. At the bottom     8     a digging site, the archaeologists also discovered some brick structures,     9     measure about 1.5 meters to 1.6 meters wide,     10     (possible) used for water system.

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