By the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Archaeology and Xi'an City Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeological Institute of the formation of the Afang Palace archaeological task force, after more than two years of time, on the existing site of the Qin Dynasty Afang Palace former hall "carpet" comprehensive archaeological exploration. "comprehensive archaeological exploration, the results did not find the remains of the Qin Dynasty palace buildings, not to mention the remains of the building was burned by fire. Accordingly, the Alhambra Palace archaeological team proposed: Alhambra Palace was not built, it is only a "half-assed" project; "fire Alhambra Palace" event does not exist.

Afang Palace is only built in front of the temple site

Afang Palace site is located in today's Shaanxi Province, 13 kilometers west of Xi'an City, south of the Wei River, and the capital of the Qin Dynasty Xianyang City across the Wei River. According to Liu Qingzhu, director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, from October 2002 to the present, the archaeological team has excavated an area of 3,000 square meters at the site of the front hall of the Afang Palace, with an exploration area of 35,000 square meters.

During the exploration process, for the site area which has been covered by the village at present, the archaeologists have not spared, except for the concrete and brick pavement, even the flower pool inside, in the sheep pen, beside the toilet, the open space between the houses and so on have been explored intensively, and only the remains of the city wall in the Qin Dynasty have been found. Its collapsed piles contain a large number of Qin and Han plate tiles and barrel tiles, but no remains of Qin Dynasty palace buildings such as temple sites, bright pillars, corridors, drainage facilities, etc., nor did they find tiles, which were an essential building material of the Qin Dynasty. As a result, archaeologists believe that the Afang Palace project only completed the construction of the front building site and part of the palace wall, while the palace building site above the part did not have time to camp.

Xiang Yu burned should be Xianyang Palace

At the same time, in the entire archaeological exploration of the Afang Palace site, the archaeologists did not find a trace of the time was burned by the fire. Liu Qingzhu introduced, in fact, the legendary Afang Palace was set on fire by Xiang Yu burning events, in the "Records of the Grand Historian" also did not record. In contrast, the "Records of the Grand Historian" has Xiang Yu burning Qin Xianyang palace buildings recorded. Previously, archaeologists found traces of the palace building sites being burned by fire in the archaeological excavation of the first, second and third palace buildings in Xianyang, the capital of Qin. Thus, it seems that Xiang Yu should have burned the Qin capital Xianyang Palace or other Qin palace rooms at that time.

Liu Qingzhu said, according to the literature, can also be judged that Afang Palace was not built. First of all, according to the "Historical Records - Qin Shihuang Benji" records, Alhambra Palace from the beginning of construction to the final stop, before and after the continuation of up to four years, the actual construction time is much shorter, only on the front of the hall of 540,000 square meters of the pedestal point of view, such as the Alhambra Palace of such a scale of the building, in the conditions at that time is impossible to complete. Secondly, from the literature, there is no clear record pointing out that the Alhambra Palace has been completed. According to the record, from the late Qin Shi Huang to Qin Er Shi to Qin Prince Ying's all political activities are in Xianyang Palace or Wang Yi Palace, and are not related to the Afang Palace, which is also consistent with the latest archaeological findings. (