The Secret of Xiaohe cemetery is a first-person single player adventure game, where you play as the Swedish archeologist Folke Bergman during his travels to Lop Nur. Your goal is to explore the site and study the artefacts to learn more about the history of this cemetery.
This game was created as a final project for the M.Sc. Interactive Digital Media in Trinity College Dublin, created by students Alisa Ryabova, Gareth Walsh, Nga Sin Tse and Wenqing Xu.
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The Xiaohe cemetery is a real place, a Bronze Age cemetery located in the west of Lop Nur, the northwestern part of China. Before it was discovered by Folke Bergman, led by the local hunter Ordek, it was looted and robbed, but, despite such cruelty, a lot of ancient artefacts and, most importantly, mummies of the past people were preserved.
If you want to learn more about this cemetery, you can play our game /link to the game/ or visit the following links:
- Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaohe_Cemetery)
- Bergman, Folke. “Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang Especially the Lop-nor Region” (http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/VIII-1-B-39/V-1/page/0071.html.en)
- Beijing Youth Daily (http://epaper.ynet.com/images/2019-11/15/C08/bjqnb20191115C08.pdf)
- Yang, Y. 2019. Shifting Memories: Burial Practices and Cultural Interaction in Bronze Age China. A study of the Xiaohe-Gumugou cemeteries in the Tarim Basin. (http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1328477/FULLTEXT01.pdf)
