By contrast, the evidence of recently excavated texts indicates that such texts derived from prior textual traditions that were subsequently lost (Harper 1998).
By contrast, the evidence of recently excavated texts indicates that the Huang Di neijing derived from prior textual traditions that were subsequently lost (Harper 1998) and that the extant version is a composite of several earlier texts (Keegan 1988, Unschuld 2003, Unschuld and Tessenow 2011, Yamada 1979).
However, Zhang Guangda has used excavated texts from Gaochang (Karakhoja or Turfan) to show that the Tang abandoned the attempt to move the headquarters of the Protectorate of the Pacified West to Kucha after Guo Xiaoke's assassination.
For example, texts excavated from Guodian 郭店 and the so-called Shanghai Museum texts resist classification as Ru or Daoist (Shi ji, 130, 3288 92; Csikszentmihalyi and Nylan 2003, Smith 2003).
Many more come from texts excavated from tombs.
Recent scholarship and the evidence of texts excavated from tombs has shown the arbitrariness of these classifications.
Medical and mantic texts excavated from tombs make it clear that a wide range of longevity techniques had been developed before the Han dynasty (Harper 1998, 33).
Recipe texts also have been excavated from Zhangjiashan (Li Ling 1993 and 2000).
In the Whitney project for example — in which black vinyl sheets with white text will cover fencing around the excavated site and the roofs of trailers within it — her slogans will speak to the transformation of urban landscapes like the ultratrendy meatpacking district.
But the story of its compilation differs markedly from that of the New Testament: The religion's founder, Joseph Smith, claimed that his source for the book was a set of gold plates that he'd excavated from a hillside; he credited himself as the text's mere translator.
