Sui-Tang Grand Canal

At Liuzikou, excavated shipwrecks, bridge piers and ceramics reveal a canal town.

At Liuzikou, the old canal bed has yielded shipwrecks, bridge piers and ceramics that make the waterway’s engineering and traffic tangible.

An excavated section of the Liuzi Canal Site reveals stone-built banks and a timber remnant lying in a cut through the earth.
An excavated section of the Liuzi Canal Site reveals stone-built banks and a timber remnant lying in a cut through the earth.

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  1. An excavated section of the Liuzi Canal Site reveals stone-built banks and a timber remnant lying in a cut through the earth.Windmemories · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Photograph by Windmemories, taken 31 January 2026 at the Liuzi Canal Site in Suixi, Anhui. Wikimedia Commons states CC BY-SA 4.0. The saved image is the standard 1280px thumbnail, not the upstream 1800×1200 original; no enlargement, crop or retouching.