[blam]

Some believe that Europeans can trace their roots to the Gansu Province of China.

[kinoxi]

cool

[blam]

Ancient Europeans Remains Found In Qinghai (China)

[DannyTN]

As the Chinese guards sat playing chess. Mongol hordes guest workers were allowed to swarm into China to do the jobs ordinary Chinese were not willing to do.

[Publius6961]

Is it safe to assume that the boards were engraved on a horizontal rather than on a vertical surface?
Pictures might have been nice, it being a "wall" and all...

[Political Junkie Too]

Archaeologists have also found 17 Chinese characters in five lines engraved on a stone nearby, of which the names of two soldiers are still clear.

The scoreboard?

-PJ

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[RightWhale]

Chess was invented in India and was given to Persia as a military challenge. This was long before the Arab/moslem conquest of Persia. There was regular and continuing communication between China, India, and Persia in those days, and a couple of wars but they generally refrained from war.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

China liked to build big.

[Serb5150]

Sweet! Now it looks like I can kick your a55 at chess all over Qinhuangdao too.

; )

[Dustbunny]

Neat !