mausoleum

Researchers in Shaanxi believe a royal mausoleum beside Xi’an Xianyang International Airport could be the long-lost burial place of Empress Dowager Huayang, the woman who helped shape the succession that brought China’s first emperor to power. The South China Morning Post reports that the proposed Huayang tomb is the Shangzhaoyao Qin Mausoleum, a heavily looted complex whose scale and design fit a Qin royal burial. Yet the identification remains a scholarly conclusion rather than a discovery confirmed by a name-bearing inscription. Scholars in Shaanxi believe that a royal tomb adjacent to the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport may be the enduring resting place of Empress Dowager Huayang, the woman who influenced the succession that gave power to the first emperor of