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Museum of Dabaotai Tombs of the Western Han Dynasty
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Located in Fengtai district, occupying an area of 18,000 square meters, it sits atop the tomb of Han King Liu Jian of the Western Han Dynasty (73--45 B.C). It features a mausoleum and excavated funerary objects of Han emperors and their wives and concubines. Unique activities include simulated archaeological excavations and Han style entertainment.

The tombs were excavated from 1974--1975. Museum incorporates two tombs.  One is a wooden underground palace. Grand in scale, it is 23.2 meters long, 18 meters wide and 4.7 meters below the earth's surface, and contains the highest-ranking burial objects for Han emperors. There are three carriages with cinnabar-speckled wheels and blue coverings, as well as eleven horses in the tomb. The second tomb (the tomb of Liu Jian's wife) was destroyed in the early times. Over 1,000 relics of bronze, iron, jade, lacquer, agate, gold, pottery and silk were unearthed from these tombs.

The ruins of the underground palace and the remains of carriages and horses are the only large-scale Han tombs unearthed in the country at present; they invaluable to Han culture research and as a historical record of Beijing.

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