page_title: Sampul
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sampul / History
caption_attribution_description: 中文（繁體）‎: 山普拉掛毯，現藏位於烏魯木齊的新疆維吾爾自治區博物館。該掛毯的發現表明，也許於公元前3–2世紀時，希臘化文明就已伴隨希臘人的東征傳入新疆。 中文（简体）‎: 也许在前3，2世纪希腊人的东征已经将希腊文化带入了新疆。该图现存于中国新疆乌鲁木齐博物馆。本图像来自英文版。 English: Probable Greek soldier, woollen wall hanging, II century BC - III century AD , Sampul, Urumqi Xinjiang Museum. Français&#160;: Tapisserie en laine d'Asie Centrale ornée d'un centaure dans sa partie supérieure. IIe siècle avant notre ère - IIIe siècle de notre ère. Mise au jour en 1984, Sampula, tombe 1. laine 116 cm x 48 cm. Musée de la Région autonome ouïghoure du Xinjiang, D13360. N° 118 in Catalogue&#160;: La Route de la soie: Un voyage à travers la vie et la mort, Fonds Mercator, Bruxelles, 2009. ISBN&#160;978-906153-892-9.&#160;: Zhao Feng (citation p. 151)&#160;: "Tapisserie extrêmement serrée à reflets irisés pour rendre les ombres sur le corps du centaure". Ref. author&#160;: Zhao Feng&#160;: Textiles from Dunhuang in UK Collections Shanghai, Donghua University Press, 2007. Ref. subject&#160;: James Watt&#160;: China, Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, New Haven/ London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2004, p. 101. Wieczorek, A. &amp; Lind, Ch. Ursprünge der Seidestrasse, Sensationelle Neuefunde aus Xinjiang, China, Mannheim/Stuttgart, Reiss-Englehorn-Museum/Konrad Theiss Verlag, 2007, p. 113.
context_page_description: Sampul is a town in Lop County, Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
context_section_description: Local inhabitants at Sampul cemetery around 14 km (8.7 mi) where art such as the Sampul tapestry has been found, buried their dead from roughly 217 BCE to 283 CE. The analysis of mtDNA haplogroup distribution showed that the Sampula inhabitants had a large mixture of East Asian, Persian and European characteristics. According to Chengzhi et al. (2007), analysis of maternal mitochondrial DNA of the human remains has revealed genetic affinities at the maternal side to Ossetians and Iranians, an Eastern-Mediterranean paternal lineage.
  The Sampul tapestry was discovered in Sampul in the mid-1980s.
  On October 21, 2014, Sampul township (山普鲁乡) disestablished and Sampul town (山普鲁镇) was created.
  In 2016-17, five villages were added to Sampul.
  On the afternoon of April 7, 2017, the XUAR Judiciary Office's de-extremization (去极端化) propaganda team began three days of de-extremization lectures in the county including visits in Sampul.
  On December 13, 2019, the body of a 5 year old Uyghur boy was found in snow in a stream in Sampul, and viral video of the discovery led to international attention.
caption: Sampul tapestry, warrior
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