2,000-Year Old Relics Discovered

Chinese archeologists have found sixty-three historical relics from three tombs dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 24 A.D.), in Guyuan County in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

The relics include a pottery cooking pot and five lead tomb sculptures, coins, bronze items, pottery utensils and silver ornaments.

The tombs were unearthed at a construction site, said an archaeologist.



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