Sonqi Toni church open

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Sonqi Tino is the place of a little church that has been excavated between 1966 and 1970 by a team of the University of La Sapienza, Rome, under the direction of Prof. Sergio Donadoni with the support of the Vatican State, represented by Fr. Giovanni Vantini. In the church of Sonqi Tino (which means West Sonqi), 14 frescoes have been found and about 100 inscriptions. None of them has been yet be published. Many of them are short graffiti but the longer ones are written with ink. Unfortunately many are damaged and difficult to read. A church (9 x 9 m) was found completely buried and filled in by the wind-blown desert sand. Once fully cleared of the sand, 31 murals were revealed on the interior walls, many of them in a good preservation.