Tomb site of Han marquis chosen for national park
By Wang Jian in Nanchang and Hou Liqiang in Beijing | China Daily | Updated: 2017-01-14 07:48
Plans are being made to build a national park on the site of China's most complete Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) cemetery, and the park will include a museum to house the artifacts that have been unearthed from the tomb.
The tomb of the Marquis of Haihun near the Jiangxi provincial capital of Nanchang is one of the few imperial tombs that have not been looted. It covers roughly 40,000 square meters and contains eight small tombs and a burial site for chariot horses.
Peng Yingun, director of the Nanchang Administration for Relics of the Haihun Principality of the Han Dynasty, said the park will cover at least 10 square kilometers and include a world-class museum with 60,000 sq m of floor space to house the unearthed artifacts.
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