TAIYUAN, June 27 (Xinhua) -- A brick and stone tomb dating back over 800 years has recently been discovered in Yuanqu County, northern China's Shanxi Province.
The tomb was found near a nonferrous metal company office building during a tap water facility renovation project. Researchers, after evaluation, decided it was constructed during the Song and Jin dynasties (960-1234), according to the culture and tourism bureau of Yuanqu.
Some burial items including pots and porcelain bowls were unearthed in the tomb, about three meters underground.
"The tomb is well-preserved without marks of flooding, collapse or robbery," deputy director of the county's culture and tourism bureau Hou Xiaochao said. "It should be a couple's joint tomb built some 800 years ago."
Hou said the discovery is of great value to the study of the burial customs, lifestyle, architecture, clothes and craftsmanship at that time.
