May
27
/ 2020
A 1000-year-old “Chinese couple” were pulled out of their brick-walled graves in an ancient cemetery to make way for a motorway. In 2020, archaeologists from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Hunan Province , in central China, were called out to a discovery at the ancient Tangjiawan cemetery, which was about to become the new Ningxiang-Shaoshan motorway. The archaeologists discovered scattered charcoal, several pottery shards and a nail that had been used for closing the 1,000-year-old tomb, which contained the married couple’s bodies. A report in China Daily says the couple had been buried together with a window in a dividing wall, or “fairy bridge,” which the archaeologists think served to connect the husband and wife enabling them
