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1. The tomb had been looted and burned in antiquity. Charred bone remnants indicates that the entombed was a male of about 45–55 years old. Archaeologists identified the tomb as belonging to Liu Jian using artifacts and historical records. Based on the scale of the tomb, they determined that the buried was a royal prince. Inscription on a piece of lacquerware found inside the tomb indicates that the ware was made in the 24th year of the reign of the owner. According to historical records, only four princes in the Han dynasty ruled the
Beijing region for as long as 24 years. Based on coins found in the tomb that date to 118 BC, two of the princes who died prior to that date were eliminated. The tomb of a third prince, Liu Dan who was Liu Jian's father had already been found in Shijingshan District, leaving Liu Jian as the only possible resident prince of the tomb.
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Western Han emperors had all been looted and destroyed in antiquity, so archaeologists had not seen such a wall until the Dabaotai excavation. Since the 1970s, the tombs of Han princes in Hebei, Hunan and Jiangsu have also been found with cypress walls intact.
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Liu Jian's tomb was discovered in 1974 by workers of the East is Red
Petrochemical Refinery who were digging inside two mounds of earth in Dabaotai village to bury storage tanks. They discovered charcoal, plaster and ancient coins. Chinese archaeologists called to inspect the site discovered Tomb No.
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A Jin dynasty courtyard home stood in the vicinity of the two tombs and yielded over 1,000 artifacts including porcelain, pottery, ironware and coins. The brick well between the two tombs is among the best preserved Jin-era wells in
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In 1975, Tomb No. 2, belonging to Liu Jian's wife, was excavated. During the excavation, archaeologists also found Jin-era artifacts including a brick well between the two tombs and remnants of a residence. Jin dynasty records indicate that
Dabaotai, located about 15 km south of the Jin capital
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September before closing for extensive repairs. Due to drainage problems, the museum was flooded in the summer of 2013 and 2015 and remained closed. In October 2015, the Beijing Cultural Bureau announced extensive expansion for the museum. As of January 2017, no completion
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The two tombs are located 26.5 m (87 ft) apart and both shaped in the character 凸. Both face the south and are 4.7 m (15 ft) deep. The Prince's tomb measures 23.2 m (76 ft) from north to south and 18 m (59 ft) from east to west. His wife's tomb is slightly
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In the south cypress wall is a door of about 3 m (9.8 ft) high and 3.6 m (12 ft) wide. A gilded bronze door knocker, 24.5 cm (9.6 in), is made in the shape of a beast head. The beast head was used to ward off evil spirits. Bronzeware, which was quite common in
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Liu Jian was the Prince of
Guangyang who ruled the Guangyang State, a royal fiefdom that administered four counties in the Beijing region during the Western Han dynasty. His father Liu Dan, also a prince, was stripped of his royal title for conspiring against the
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The Jin-era artifacts were also incorporated into the mausoleum, which opened on
December 1, 1983 and was designated a major historical landmark of Beijing in 1995. The museum covered an area of 18,000 m (190,000 sq ft).
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Jin-era ground level, and has a diameter of 1.4 m (4.6 ft) and depth of 8 m (26 ft). The well is lined with 17 by 4 cm (6.7 by 1.6 in) grey bricks. Among the items found in the well is a fragment of a
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game set were found in the antechamber and inner hallway. Four of the pieces have a carved flying dragon on the oblique side. The other four pieces have a carved leaping tiger.
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