Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

The No 1 tomb of the Wuwangdun Site in Huainan, Anhui province, believed to be the tomb of King Kaolie of the Chu state, who reigned during the late stage of the Warring States Period. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Findings at Wuwangdun shed intriguing light on how society was organized millennia ago, Wang Ru reports in Huainan, Anhui province. The 15-meter-high mound at the Wuwangdun Site in Huainan, Anhui province, has long been recognized as an important tomb, and was listed as a key provincial cultural relic protection site in 1981. It is the largest in scale, highest level and most complex Chu structure excavated to date, and the tomb probably belonged to King Kaolie from the late Warring States Period, says Gong Xicheng, deputy director of the Anhui Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and head of the project.

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Further scrutiny for relics-related posts
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Further scrutiny for relics-related posts

China Daily  

By Cao Yin | China Daily | Updated: 2024-10-30 08:59 China has pledged to tighten scrutiny over content related to ancient tombs on livestreaming and short-video platforms, as the nation aims to intensify the fight against crimes involving cultural relics. "The internet users posted such content to get more online views, but those videos have misled the public and also …

Unearthing 5,000-Year-Old Royal Tomb Amid Capital Speculation
2 months ago

Unearthing 5,000-Year-Old Royal Tomb Amid Capital Speculation

China Daily  

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old royal tomb in the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng city, Henan province. The tomb covers more than 17 square meters and contains many burial items, including pottery, jade ornaments, bone tools, and animal remains. The findings suggest that the ancient tomb was a cultural melting pot in prehistoric times, where diverse cultures intersected and exchanged influences.

Unearthing 5,000-Year-Old Royal Tomb Amid Capital Speculation
2 months ago

Unearthing 5,000-Year-Old Royal Tomb Amid Capital Speculation

China Daily  

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old royal tomb in the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng city, Henan province. The tomb covers more than 17 square meters and contains numerous burial items, including pottery, jade ornaments, bone tools, and animal remains. The findings suggest a deliberate act of tomb destruction shortly after the burial, indicating a complex social hierarchy and cultural melting pot …

Unearthing 5,000-Year-Old Royal Tomb Amid Capital Speculation
2 months ago

Unearthing 5,000-Year-Old Royal Tomb Amid Capital Speculation

China Daily  

Archaeologists have discovered a 5,000-year-old royal tomb in the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng city, Henan province. The tomb covers more than 17 square meters and contains numerous burial items, including pottery, jade ornaments, bone tools, and animal remains. The findings suggest a deliberate act of tomb destruction shortly after the burial, indicating a complex social hierarchy and cultural melting pot …

Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

A ceremonial bronze vessel used to contain grains, known as fu, unearthed from the site. In 241 BC, King Kaolie moved the Chu capital eastward to Shouchun to distance the state from the rising Qin state to the west. "But the scale, type, building style and rich funerary objects at the Wuwangdun Site indicate the Chu still possessed significant strength …

Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

The No 1 tomb of the Wuwangdun Site in Huainan, Anhui province, believed to be the tomb of King Kaolie of the Chu state, who reigned during the late stage of the Warring States Period. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Findings at Wuwangdun shed intriguing light on how society was organized millennia ago, Wang Ru reports in Huainan, Anhui province. The 15-meter-high …

Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

A lacquer table found at the site. CHINA DAILY Significance The Chu features of the Wuwangdun tomb show the continuity of Chu culture, which is part of the Chinese civilization, according to Zhang. He says the Chu tomb in the last Chu capital of Shouchun has features borrowed from the Jiangling area in Jingzhou, Hubei province, the area the Chu …

Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

The No 1 tomb of the Wuwangdun Site in Huainan, Anhui province, believed to be the tomb of King Kaolie of the Chu state, who reigned during the late stage of the Warring States Period. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Findings at Wuwangdun shed intriguing light on how society was organized millennia ago, Wang Ru reports in Huainan, Anhui province. The 15-meter-high …

Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

The No 1 tomb of the Wuwangdun Site in Huainan, Anhui province, believed to be the tomb of King Kaolie of the Chu state, who reigned during the late stage of the Warring States Period. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Findings at Wuwangdun shed intriguing light on how society was organized millennia ago, Wang Ru reports in Huainan, Anhui province. The 15-meter-high …

Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

A ceremonial bronze vessel used to contain grains, known as fu, unearthed from the site. In 241 BC, King Kaolie moved the Chu capital eastward to Shouchun to distance the state from the rising Qin state to the west. "But the scale, type, building style and rich funerary objects at the Wuwangdun Site indicate the Chu still possessed significant strength …

Retrieving history from the past
7 months ago

Retrieving history from the past

China Daily  

The No 1 tomb of the Wuwangdun Site in Huainan, Anhui province, believed to be the tomb of King Kaolie of the Chu state, who reigned during the late stage of the Warring States Period. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY Findings at Wuwangdun shed intriguing light on how society was organized millennia ago, Wang Ru reports in Huainan, Anhui province. The 15-meter-high …

Lavish 2,200-year-old tomb of Chinese emperor unearthed
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Lavish 2,200-year-old tomb of Chinese emperor unearthed

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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Archaeologists have unearthed a luxurious 2,200-year-old tomb in eastern China that …

Archaeological findings expected to help improve understanding of vassal state
8 months, 1 week ago

Archaeological findings expected to help improve understanding of vassal state

China Daily  

Lacquerware items are among the archaeological findings unearthed at the Wuwangdun Site in Huainan, Anhui province. One of the largest-scale Chu state tombs with the highest rank and most complex structure dating back to the late Warring States Period recently underwent an excavation, which is expected to help promote understanding of a once powerful state in its final days, cultural …

Chinese character-shaped tombs uncover Shang Dynasty burial insights 殷墟外围地区首次发现大型“中”字形墓葬
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Chinese character-shaped tombs uncover Shang Dynasty burial insights 殷墟外围地区首次发现大型“中”字形墓葬

China Daily  

Large tombs shaped like the Chinese character '中' have been discovered for the first time in the peripheral areas of the archaeological site of Yin Xu in Anyang, Henan Province. This significant find provides valuable insights into the burial system of the Shang Dynasty, along with information related to the layout, structure, and chronological changes of the Yin Xu site, …

Archaeologists find ancient tombs, house foundations in Northeast China
1 year, 3 months ago

Archaeologists find ancient tombs, house foundations in Northeast China

China Daily  

This photo taken in July 2023 shows part of the Quying cemetery in Yingkou city, Northeast China's Liaoning province. SHENYANG -- Archaeologists have unearthed 10 tombs and the foundations of eight houses dating back to a period spanning from the Wei Kingdom to the Jin Dynasty in Northeast China's Liaoning province. Notably, the artifacts, including pottery fragments adorned with grid-like …

Unearthed tombs may offer clue to ancient burial systems
1 year, 10 months ago

Unearthed tombs may offer clue to ancient burial systems

China Daily  

Archaeologists have unearthed 21 tombs dating back to the Western Han Dynasty in the central Chinese city of Changsha, Hunan province, which are possibly subordinate tombs of a royal mausoleum, according to the municipal institute of archaeology. "If our speculation proves true, it will provide important clues for studying the development and distribution of double-decked tombs during the Han Dynasty," …

Late Shang Dynasty tombs discovered in Central China
2 years, 6 months ago

Late Shang Dynasty tombs discovered in Central China

China Daily  

File photo shows the cultural relics unearthed in the Heiyuling tomb complex in Quzici Township, in the city of Miluo, Central China's Hunan province. Archaeologists have discovered 25 tombs dating back to the late Shang Dynasty in Central China's Hunan province. According to the Hunan provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology, the Heiyuling tomb complex in Quzici Township, in …

Late Shang Dynasty tombs discovered in Central China
2 years, 6 months ago

Late Shang Dynasty tombs discovered in Central China

China Daily  

File photo shows the cultural relics unearthed in the Heiyuling tomb complex in Quzici Township, in the city of Miluo, Central China's Hunan province. Archaeologists have discovered 25 tombs dating back to the late Shang Dynasty in Central China's Hunan province. According to the Hunan provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology, the Heiyuling tomb complex in Quzici Township, in …

Tengzhou highlights nation's top archaeological finds
2 years, 8 months ago

Tengzhou highlights nation's top archaeological finds

China Daily  

An unborn child's remains from a tomb in the Gangshang city ruins site in Tengzhou, Shandong province, dating back about 5,000 years China's Top 10 New Archaeological Discoveries of 2021 was released in Beijing on March 31. The Gangshang city ruins site in Tengzhou, East China's Shandong province was listed as one of the nation's top 10 finds. Sanxingdui site …

A mountain of knowledge
3 years ago

A mountain of knowledge

China Daily  

Pottery artifacts unearthed from the Yanshanzhai site in Yingde, Guangdong province, unveil the largest known Neolithic site in the Lingnan area. Nearly 1,000 cultural relics including jade items, bronze and pottery, and stone artifacts were unearthed from the graveyard, estimated to be more than 4,000 square meters in size. Specific dating of the Yanshanzhai site has not been released, but …

A mountain of knowledge
3 years ago

A mountain of knowledge

China Daily  

A set of stone arrows unearthed from the Yanshanzhai site. Yanshanzhai site, the Lingnan region's largest known human settlement from the Neolithic period-defined in China as between 10,000 and 4,000 years ago-was found on a mountain in Yingde, a city in the north of Guangdong province. Since 2019, a joint archaeological team drawn from Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics …

Quzhou millennia-old tombs enjoy nationwide fame
3 years ago

Quzhou millennia-old tombs enjoy nationwide fame

China Daily  

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2021-12-22 Jade relics unearthed in the Mengjiang No 3 mound are well conserved, offering high historic, artistic and scientific research value. The China Broadcast Network released the top 10 domestic and international archaeological news stories for 2021 on Dec 20 and the prefecture-level city of Quzhou, located in East China's Zhejiang province, figured prominently among them. The story …

Millennia-old tombs bring Zhou treasures back to life
3 years, 1 month ago

Millennia-old tombs bring Zhou treasures back to life

China Daily  

chinadaily.com.cn| Updated :2021-11-21 This 3,000 year-old mound tomb is yielding fascinating secrets from the distant past. The Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Archaeological Research Institute has completed the excavation of several large mound tombs – located in the Qujiang district of Quzhou city, in East China's Zhejiang province – and preliminarily findings have determined that they date to the Western Zhou …

Prehistoric wooden constructions excavated in China's Hunan
3 years, 2 months ago

Prehistoric wooden constructions excavated in China's Hunan

China Daily  

Pottery excavated at Jijiaocheng Site, a Neolithic city site in Central China's Hunan province. Several large wooden constructions were excavated at Jijiaocheng Site, a Neolithic city site in Central China's Hunan province, according to a briefing held Saturday on the archaeological excavation. In 2021, archaeologists discovered several wooden buildings in the Qujialing culture period, among which the F63 building with …

Shandong province
3 years, 4 months ago

Shandong province

China Daily  

Shandong Museum The museum in East China's Shandong province hosts a collection of historical bronze vessels, paintings, calligraphy works and rare books, as well as ancient fossils and animal and plant specimens. Not to be missed are the relics bearing Neolithic Dawenkou and Longshan cultural elements, bronze artifacts from the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, and stone carvings from the …

The Xiong Family Tomb National Archaeological Site Park
3 years, 5 months ago

The Xiong Family Tomb National Archaeological Site Park

China Daily  

The Xiong Family Tomb National Archaeological Site Park 熊家冢考古遗址公园 Address: Zhangyang village, Chuandian town, Jingzhou city, Hubei province Hours: 9 am - 5:30 pm The Xiong Family Tomb is 26 kilometers south of Jinan city, the capital of the ancient State of Chu. The excavation site of the chariots pits at the Xiong Family Tomb site Yet the identity of …

Hongshan National Archaeological Site Park
3 years, 6 months ago

Hongshan National Archaeological Site Park

China Daily  

Hongshan National Archaeological Site Park 鸿山考古遗址公园 Address: 200 Feifeng Road, Hongshan Street, Xinwu district, Wuxi city, Jiangsu province Hours: 9 am – 4:30 pm General admission: Free Tel: 88529556 A view of the Hongshan National Archaeological Site Park The discovery of the Hongshan Site was a complete unveiling of the burial rules for aristocratic tomb complexes of the Yue Kingdom, …

Rocks and a charred place
3 years, 7 months ago

Rocks and a charred place

China Daily  

A polished stone implement unearthed from the Zhaoguodong cave site in Guian New Area, Guizhou province. Archaeologists are using sophisticated tools and evidence of fire to study the history of human settlement at the Zhaoguodong relics site in Guizhou, Wang Kaihao reports. Stepping down the ladders and along the platforms in the cave, located in Guian New Area, not far …

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