Archaeologists Unearth Someone They Weren’t Expecting in a 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Tomb

Archaeologists Unearth Someone They Weren’t Expecting in a 1,000-Year-Old Chinese Tomb

In 2018, construction work on a road in Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi province in northern China, led to an unexpected archaeological discovery. Researchers uncovered a tomb from the Tang dynasty, dated to the year 736 AD, that contained detailed murals illustrating everyday life during that period. The tomb belonged to a man who died at the age of 63, and its walls depict scenes ranging from food preparation to water carrying, offering a rare …