Pizhou, Jiangsu is a total high hundred large tombs of Han dynasty tombs | pizhou, Jiangsu Han _ news

Xinhuanet, Nanjing, June 15 (reporter Jiang Fang)-reporters learned from the Institute of Nanjing Museum, pizhou city of Jiangsu province found a large tombs of the Eastern Han dynasty, in the range of 40,000 square metres distributed over 100 tombs.

According to reports, the tomb was originally in a soil formed pond, because construction of water being siphoned up to reveal this piece of ancient tombs. The size of these tombs is not big, most are 2 meters long and 1 meter wide. Reporter rough statistics, the total number of Tomb Raider with more than 100 seats. It is regrettable that, due to the burial ground near, so over more than 20 ancient tombs have been stolen, stolen around the pits littered with broken bricks and pottery fragments, some of these tombs was lifted upside down, even the Tomb bricks are out.

Nanjing Museum, Institute of Archaeology in charge, mainly during the Eastern Han dynasty the tombs, did not rule out the possibility that Western Han tombs. Although the individual tombs is not big, but the scale of the Han tombs are rare, to the study of the burial system of the Eastern Han dynasty and social status have a higher value. Pizhou, Eastern Han dynasty is famous for its ancient battlefields, Tao Qian, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Lü BU and many forces took turns occupying, Guan Yu is to surrender to Cao Cao's defeat in pizhou area. Pizhou Gcs tombs from the Han dynasty, about three or four kilometers, is likely to be a burial area outside the city, after neighboring have been found in Han tombs and unearthed relics such as bronze mirrors, bronze swords.

The official said, because this time the contractor requested compensation of up to 1.5 million Yuan, compared with 100,000 yuan of archaeological resources, archaeological teams and therefore unable to enter, but buried very shallow pits revealed that the stolen tombs, dug into the ground twenty or thirty centimetres to reach the Tomb immediately carrying out archaeological excavations it is urgent. Currently, local cultural departments have been sent to protect the burial area, and in consultation with the contractor the amount of compensation deal will start after archaeological excavations.

10:26 on June 15, 2014 Xinhua NET