Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda, Uncovering a 1000 year old Treasure Trove, published by Singapore's National Heritage Board on its Roots.gov.sg platform in 2014, describes the exhibition of relics from the Famen Temple pagoda excavation, including reliquary treasures associated with a finger bone relic attributed to the Buddha, as shown to Singaporean audiences. Its strength is that it comes from a national heritage authority with institutional standing over how the exhibition itself was presented and interpreted for the public, reliable for the exhibition's own factual content and dates. Its limit is that it is a museum outreach and heritage promotion page written for a general public audience around a specific exhibition rather than a scholarly excavation report, so a claim needing the full archaeological detail of the original 1987 Famen Temple excavation itself, rather than how a later exhibition presented selected findings from it, needs the excavation scholarship the exhibition itself was built on.
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Reliability Tier2
Singapore's National Heritage Board, publishing on its own Roots.gov.sg platform, is a national heritage authority rather than a scholarly excavation report, the middle tier reflecting a museum outreach account of an exhibition rather than the archaeological scholarship the exhibition itself drew on. NotesNational Heritage Board account of the 1987 Famensi crypt discovery: the collapsed pagoda, the sealed Tang crypt (closed 874 CE), four finger-bone relics (one true bone and three protective "shadow bones"), and the trove of over 2,000 Tang treasures.
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AuthorNational Heritage Board, Singapore
PublisherNational Heritage Board, Singapore
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://www.roots.gov.sg/stories-landing/stories/secrets-of-the-fallen-pagoda-uncovering-a-1000-year-old-treasure-trove/story
Source Typereference
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This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 13 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Artifacts & Relics, 7 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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