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Chariot and horse burial chamber excavated in Henan [Eastern Zhou period]
China Central Television ^ | February 19, 2009 | CRI, ed by Liu Fang

Posted on 02/23/2009 7:59:17 PM PST by SunkenCiv

The excavation site contains 29 tombs, including two imperial wooden chariots and two dead horses.

Field work for this excavation began in August 2008 and took archaeologists three months to finish. Many artifacts such as pottery, bronze weapons and jade were found despite the fact that most of the tombs had already been plundered by grave robbers.

The horses, laying back to back in an orderly arrangement, were evidently killed before the burial. The two wooden chariots had rotted away, leaving only dusts.

According to local archaeologists, this is also the first time a burial chamber with two horses and two chariots has been discovered in the Luoyang region.

The chamber is located beneath a restaurant undergoing renovation. The restaurant, Luoyang Jujia, plans to encase the burial chamber in an underground culinary museum.

(Excerpt) Read more at cctv.com ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: china; easternzhou; godsgravesglyphs; henan
A recently excavated Eastern Zhou period chariot and horse burial chamber in Luoyang, Henan province. The chamber contains two horses and two chariots. [Photo: Dahe Daily]

Chariot and horse burial chamber excavated in Hen

1 posted on 02/23/2009 7:59:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 02/23/2009 7:59:35 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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I like that picture.


3 posted on 02/23/2009 8:12:03 PM PST by blam
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4 posted on 02/23/2009 8:18:47 PM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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I think the driver wasn’t paying attention, and drove the whole works into an open hole in the ground. They died, and the locals just filled it in on top of them. ;’)


5 posted on 02/23/2009 8:21:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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"I think the driver wasn’t paying attention, and drove the whole works into an open hole in the ground. They died, and the locals just filled it in on top of them. ;’)"

File with the sinkhole stories, lol.

6 posted on 02/23/2009 8:37:24 PM PST by blam
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As more Yin Dynasty chariots are brought to light, researchers are able to learn more about the burial system.

Burying only the chariots or the horses is rare for the people of the Yin Dynasty, although a total of 25 chariots and 37 horses have been found respectively in the two sites.

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7 posted on 02/23/2009 8:57:32 PM PST by Fred Nerks (We've got to get him out of that White House!)
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There’s probably also Chinese chariots in those sinkholes, all of them dating to 1421. ;’)


8 posted on 02/24/2009 5:07:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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