Fifty years ago, three consecutive excavations were conducted in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, unveiling the Mawangdui Tomb, one of China's most sensational archaeological finds of the ...

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Silk manuscripts unearthed from the Mawangdui Tombs Photo: CCTV/Hunan Museum The complete inventory of artifacts unearthed from the Mawangdui Tombs, including the famous Lady Xin Zhui's mummified ...

A piece of lacquerware unearthed from the Mawangdui tombs in Changsha, Hunan province. CHINA DAILY Of the 1,017 lacquerware pieces recovered, 869 are still intact. Of the textiles — mainly silk ...

The lacquerware unearthed from Mawangdui totals 1,017 pieces, 869 of which are intact. The textiles unearthed — mainly silk and hemp — total 24,490 pieces, including 212 intact pieces.

The three Han Dynasty tombs excavated in 1972 at Mawangdui in Hunan’s Changsha was an extremely significant archaeological discovery. Tomb no. 1, in particular, found in a state of complete ...