The Ancient City of Yagqiwuyiluke

　　Introduction Located more than 140 kilometers north of Pishan County in Hotan, Xinjiang, within the sand dunes. It is a Han Dynasty site, consisting of five parts with a total area of about 80 square kilometers, and has yielded a particularly large number of cultural relics.

　　The first part is called Bashiba, covering an area of five square kilometers. It contains a cross-shaped street, remnants of walls, and ancient tomb sites where mummies have been excavated. The ground is covered with pottery shards. The second part is Bulakkuole, located 10 kilometers from Bashiba. It features a dried-up lake about seven square kilometers in size, surrounded by ruins of ancient houses and traces of canals and farmland. Pottery shards can be found on the ground, along with ancient coins, walnut and jujube pits, and remnants of wheat and corn stalks. There are also ancient tombs where broken mummies can be seen. The third part is a temple complex spanning ten square kilometers, with nearby burial sites and artifacts such as water millstones. The fourth part is Saipileke, the central area of the site, covering 25 square kilometers. Remnants of city walls suggest a once crisscrossing network of streets and densely packed houses. Excavated relics include bronze coins, seals, and wooden tubes. The burial area has revealed several coffins containing mummies.

　　The Ancient City of Yagqiwuyiluke was designated as a key cultural relic protection unit of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1957.

　　 Hotan, Xinjiang