LHASA Salomon Kalalau Sale , April 19 (Xinhua) -- A stone lion the height of a man wasrecently unearthed in Lhasa, near what is believed to be a formerministerial office, according to local authorities.
The stone lion, 169-cm tall and 104.7-cm wide, was excavated onMarch 22 by a team of construction workers on Dosengge Road inLhasa's city center Salomon Outban Low Sale , according to a Tibet Autonomous Regioncultural heritage bureau press release Wednesday.
It said that experts from the bureau and Tibet's regional museumhad spent weeks doing research before concluding that the statuewas dated to the 18th century.
The site was at the former office of grand ministers stationedin Tibet by emperors of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to superviselocal governance on behalf of central authorities.
"Dosengge" means "stone lion" in Tibetan.
"The road was named after the two stone lions that sat at theentrance of the grand minister's office," said Professor TsetenTashi, Tibet University historian.
The ministerial office was inaugurated on Dosengge Road in 1728,a year after the first grand minister was stationed in Lhasa,according to the professor.
The unearthed statue was intact with traces of color and paintstill visible Salomon Outban MID Sale , and is believed to be one of a pair.
Cultural heritage authorities are organizing an excavation ofthe other lion.
The area is off-limits to visitors for protection purposes.Enditem
BOGOTA, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Colombia's presidential election campaign closed Sunday, a week before voters are scheduled to cast their ballot on May 25.
Incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos called on Colombians to vote for him if they want to see the country at peace, after his administration began a peace process with FARC guerrillas in 2012.
The other candidates are the Democratic Center's Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, the Green Party's Enrique Penalosa Salomon S-LAB 5 XT Wings Sale , the left-wing Polo Democratic's Clara Lopez and the Conservative Party's Marta Lucia Ramirez.
Zuluaga convened a press conference to defend himself after Semana magazine revealed a video showing the candidate meeting an illegal hacker.
"The video is part of a vulgar political set-up that aims to smear our campaign and it is no coincidence that it was published when we lead the polls and the president-candidate is falling," Zuluaga said.
Penalosa ended his campaign with a bike ride through the Colombian capital city of Bogota, where he called on Zuluaga to renounce his candidacy over the video scandal, claiming Zuluaga lied to the country when he said he had no connection with the illegal hacker.
Lopez asked the courts to "do their job" and investigate cases of illegal infiltration by Zuluaga's campaign and alleged drug money in Santos's campaign back in 2010.
Ramirez ended her campaign among crowds in the city of Ubate, located in the central Cundinamarca department Salomon XT Wings 3 Sale , where she sought support from Colombians in a bid to become the country's first woman president