Subashi (lost city)

Subashi ( SUBASI ) is a sunken city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in China. It is located in the Taklamakan desert to the ancient Silk Road near the city of Kucha.

The city has been excavated to parts of the Japanese archaeologists Count Otani.

The French mission headed by the sinologist Paul Pelliot made ​​in 1907 Subashi station.

An identified in Subashi sarira, a buddhistischest reliquary from the 6th - 7th Century, shows people of Central Asia in long shirt-blouses ( " tunics " ), reminiscences of other friezes, which were called Tocharian.

The " Witch of Subashi " is another famous archeological artifact, the mummy of a woman with a huge polka dot hat, it is considered as representative of a previous population that lived in the region beginning before our time.

Buddhist Monastery

The site of the Buddhist Vihara at Subashi (苏巴什 佛寺 遗址, Subashi Fosi Yizhi ) is since 1996 on the monuments of the People's Republic of China ( 4-45 ).

Central Asians, detail of Sarirabox.