Liujiang cave skull-b. Homo Sapiens 68,000 Years Old.jpg|Liujiang cave skull from the
National Museum of Natural History 唐开元寺遗址.JPG|Kaiyuan Temple , ruins of
Tang dynasty 柳侯祠 Ancestral Temple of the Marquis Liu.jpg|Liuhou Ancestral Hall , "Ancestral Hall of Liu Noble" 抗战期间被日军破坏焚烧状况图.png|Liuzhou by Japanese Army Situation Map The
Liujiang men () are among the earliest modern
humans found in
East Asia. Their remains were discovered in the
Tongtianyang Cave () in
Liujiang County, Guangxi. Liujiang man is a Late Pleistocene
Homo sapiens sapiens. Liuzhou has a history of more than 2,100 years. The city was founded in 111 B.C. when it was known as
Tanzhong (). In 742 A.D. it became known as
Longcheng (), after the
Long River, before finally changing to Liuzhou () after the
Liu River in 1736. The most famous historic figure is
Liu Zongyuan (773–819), who was a poet and politician in the
Tang dynasty and who died in Liuzhou. He is commemorated by a park in the city. Liuzhou was the site of
Liuchow Airfield, used by Nationalist Chinese and
American Army Air Forces in
World War II. (At that time the airfield was closer to the centre, where the zoo is now.) It was captured by the
Japanese army on 7 November 1944 during the
Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou and recaptured by Nationalist Chinese forces on 30 June 1945 prior to the
Second Guangxi Campaign. ==Administrative divisions==