Section of an excavated tomb dating back about 5,000 years in the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng city, Henan province.Xinhua
Posted on 10/29/2024 6:02:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A tomb dating back approximately 5,000 years, presumed to be the grave of a prehistoric king, has been discovered at a ruins site in Central China's Henan province with more than 350 artifacts unearthed to date.
Located in the Wangzhuang ruins in the city of Yongcheng, the tomb covers more than 17 square meters, a super large size for that period.
The Wangzhuang ruins belong to the middle and late periods of Dawenkou Culture (4000-2600 BC) of the late Neolithic Age...
The tomb, measuring between 4.52 to 4.8 meters in length and 3.47 to 3.68 meters in width, features both inner and outer coffins. It contains many burial items, including more than 100 pieces of pottery, nearly 200 small jade ornaments, bone tools and animal remains, such as pig mandibles symbolizing wealth...
This year, 45 tombs of Dawenkou Culture were discovered at the Wangzhuang ruins, with 27 already excavated. Some of the tombs are of higher status, yielding a wealth of artifacts and many contain pig mandibles, says Liu Haiwang, leader of the joint archaeological team.
More than 1,000 burial artifacts, including pottery and jade items, have been unearthed from the Wangzhuang ruins this year...
(Excerpt) Read more at chinadaily.com.cn ...
Section of an excavated tomb dating back about 5,000 years in the Wangzhuang ruins in Yongcheng city, Henan province.Xinhua
Nan Pelosi was just a girl at the grand opening.
Nah, she always buries ‘em face down with a bullet hole in the back of the skull.
Had a little Wang to it?........
AND, I’m eagerly awaiting the next episode of The Curse of Oak Island to air next month…
Every season I become more convinced that the treasure is long gone.
I thought it symbolized Barbecue.
They need to ask Keith Richard if he has any pictures.
It could be, but there’s still all that underground work to explore. Who knows….
The pope has already apologized for the nuns...
The ice age began to recede about 12,000 years ago, unleashing great global flooding, which was remembered as a local total destruction flood “of everything” in many civilizations around the world. It took another 8,000 years or so of “recovery” by the human remnants before what we now call the “acient civilizations” developed, in different parts. There were great civilizations in the middle latitudes during the ice age, but we know nothing of them. We only know the tales (myths) remembered, not in total accurancy, by their scattered remnants some thousands of years later.
He climbed a palm tree to try to take a picture of the whole downtown, but he’d had a few and fell back down onto the sand, and the Stones had to cancel part of the tour.
:^)
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