These 12 figures were buried in the tomb of the Tang general Liu Tingxun. He died in AD 728 at the advanced age of 72. The figurines are among the tallest known to have survived from this era.

Zhen believes the style coincides with the paintings found in the tomb of Wang Shenzi, a key figure in the late 800s during the fall of the Tang dynasty and rise of the Song dynasty.

The figures, rare for their wooden material, were found among the grave goods in a tomb from the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534), according to Datong Institute of Archaeology in the province.

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In 2018, construction work on a road in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in northern China, led to an unexpected archaeological discovery. Researchers uncovered a tomb from the Tang dynasty ...

Chinese archaeologists have made distilled wine in a replica of a bronze vessel unearthed from an emperor’s tomb dating back 2,000 years – using taro and the same process believed to have been ...

Archaeologists think that the tomb may be an entire replica of the Chinese city of Xi'an built to honor the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, who died in 210 B.C.

Also found inside the tomb were 250 artifacts including gold, silver, and pottery, the remains of a man in his 60s, and the bones of two women. The bones are believed to belong to Cao Cao, his ...