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Tomb appears on Olympic venue construction site

www.chinanews.cn 2006-05-09 14:40:46

Chinanews, May 9 - A tomb group was dug out at the construction site of
the shooting range for the 2008 Olympic Games, putting the construction
on hold for the time being. The tombs are waiting for a further check,
which will be done by professionals from the Ministry of Culture at a
later time. If the tombs prove to have historical value, some other
location for the Olympic shooting range will be chosen.
The tombs are located at the west Fifth Ring Road in Beijing. At present,
an archeological institute has already marked the area off for further
research
From the scale of a tomb, archeologists guessed that the tomb owner might
be an influential official, possibly a eunuch in the former imperial
palace. From the unearthed copper coins and tiles experts concluded that
the tomb should have been built during the Wanli reign period (1573
-1620) in the Ming Dynasty.

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