Gold Legacy Unveiled: Valuable Plates and Coins Spark Excitement in Tomb Discovery

Gold plates discovered at the royal tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State Cemetery has been studied for five years and produced thousands of items Coins, hoof-shaped ingots and jade pendants have also been found there

Gold plates are among the valuable items unearthed at the tomb of a Chinese emperor who died thousands of years ago.

Archaeologists digging at the royal tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) uncovered large quanтιтies of gold over the festive period.

The cemetery, which contains eight tombs and a chariot burial site, has been studied for five years and has produced Wuzhu bronze coins, jade and thousands of other gold, bronze and iron items.

Discovery: Gold items found in the main tomb at the site of the royal tombs of the Marquis of Haihun State

Gold plates measuring 23cm long, 10cm wide and 0.3cm were found inside the main tomb at the royal site

Hoof-shaped gold items excavated from the tomb of Haihunhou dating back to the Western Han Dynasty

It is thought the main tomb at the site in Jiangxi, an eastern Chinese province where archaeologists were digging at Christmas, belongs to Liu He, who was the grandson of Emperor Wu.

Liu was given the тιтle Haihunhou, or Marquis of Haihun after he was dethroned after 27 days as emperor.

It is believed he was deposed because he lacked both talent and morals.

Chinese archaeologists excavate gold items from the tomb in Nanchang city in east China’s Jiangxi province

Archaeologists digging at the royal tombs uncovered large quanтιтies of gold over the festive period

The royal tombs are the best preserved of the Western Han Dynasty ever found in the country 

Other items found at the site include gold coins, hoof-shaped ingots, jade pendants, a distiller, horse-drawn vehicles, a board game and 2,000-year-old bronze lamps.

The goose-shaped lamps, which would have been filled with water, were designed to dispose of the smoke inside the tomb.

Since 2011, more than 10,000 pieces have been discovered at the tombs and 110 of these have gone on display at Jiangxi Provincial Museum in Nanchang.

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