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The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, also called the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Great Wild Goose Pagoda and Dayan Pagoda. Was built by Xuanzang in 652. The 63.25-metre (207.5 ft) pagoda has the brick structure with seven stories and four sides of ancient Indian style. It has been renovated and redecorated several times since the Tang dynasty (618–907).
A brief history of Deva and its other neighbouring citadels as well as extensive archaeological discoveries from the numerous sights in and around the Orăştie Mountains are exhibited in the museum. The museum was founded in 1882 as the County Museum and houses one of the most important archaeological collections in Transylvania, including ...
Roman head of a Dacian of the type known from Trajan's Forum, AD 120–130, marble, on 18th-century bust. The Dacians (/ ˈ d eɪ ʃ ən z /; Latin: Daci; Ancient Greek: Δάκοι, [1] Δάοι, [1] Δάκαι [2]) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea.
The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the northern part of Daci’en Temple and is a pavilion-style square brick pagoda composed of a base, body, and top. The total height of the pagoda, including the base, is 64.1 meters. The pagoda’s base is approximately 4.2 meters high, with a north-south width of about 48.8 meters.
The Daqin Pagoda (Chinese: 大秦塔) is a Buddhist pagoda in Zhouzhi County of Xi'an (formerly Chang'an), Shaanxi Province, [1] China, located about two kilometres to the west of Louguantai temple. The pagoda has been claimed as a Church of the East in China church from the Tang dynasty but there has been no conclusive evidence of such a ...
Daci Temple was designated as a municipal-level cultural heritage site in Chengdu in 1981 and as a provincial cultural heritage site in 2007. It was used as a location for Chengdu Museum, which opened in 1984. At the end of 2003, Daci Temple was restored and was officially opened to the public on April 8 of the following year.
In April 1929, the helmet was purchased by the Ministry of Public Instruction and Cults for the National Museum of Antiquities, now the National History Museum of Romania. Initially, Marinescu was celebrated for saving a national treasure, but after the landslide 1928 Romanian general election , Marinescu, presumably a sympathizer of the losing ...
Shaanxi History Museum was constructed from 1983. It was opened to the public on 20 June 1991. The museum is in an area of 65,000 square metres (700,000 sq ft), with a building area of 55,600 square metres (598,000 sq ft), cultural relics storerooms of 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft), exhibition halls of 11,000 square meters, and a ...