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              Badain Jaran Desert was once Eden
                                     (Many finds in Northern China desert)
       Researchers claim that the Badain Jaran Desert in North China was once habitable. Archaeologists draw this conclusion from the large amount of finds and rock paintings excavated in this region.
       Archaeologists of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region have just discovered a site dating from the Paleolithic Age to the Shang (16-11 century BCE) and Zhou (11 century BCE-221 BCE) Dynasties in the eastern border area of the desert, where an unprecedented large amount of stone items of the Alxa Region were unearthed. At the same time, nearly 800 rock paintings were discovered in the southeastern part of the desert.

        "The two new sites are only a small part of the ancient cultural relics discovered in the Badain Jaran Desert," said Gai Shanlin, a research member with the local archaeological research institute. According to Gai ancient settlements were discovered near almost every lake in the desert.

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