A Dutch Dig: Lost city awakens

Dutch students help in excavation of an ancient city in Mongolia

the Mongol Messenger:

"It is 6am, an hour before the sun rises above the enclosing hills, and the first shift of Dutch and Mongolians are woken up by the Mongolian camp staff.
Sleepy heads poke from some of the eleven gers for a quick rinse in the freezing water and a meagre breakfast of tea, with stale bread and jam.
By seven o’clock they are sitting in the bus, to be taken one kilometer in distance and back eleven hundred years in time.
They are excavating an extraordinary find, one that will radically change the common perception of Central Asia."