Ruins of 1,800-year-old vessel helps confirm imperial tomb

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Photo taken on Dec. 9, 2020 shows a stone vessel inscribed with a manufacturing year -- the third year of Guanghe, or AD 180, unearthed from an imperial tomb near the Baicaopo Village of Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province. (Luoyang City Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute/Handout via Xinhua)

Archaeologists in central China's Henan Province have unearthed ruins of a 1,840-year-old stone vessel, which has helped confirm the tomb location of an emperor in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220).

The ruins of the mausoleum are near the Baicaopo Village in Yibin District in the city of Luoyang. Based on written records, archaeologists used to speculate that the mausoleum belonged to emperor Liu Zhi, but had no evidence to prove it.

According to the latest excavation, the 25-cm-tall basin-shaped vessel with a diameter of 80 cm was found inscribed with a manufacturing year -- the third year of Guanghe, or AD 180.

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