All Posts Tagged ‘Mawangdui’
The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010From the National Gallery of Art, this is an excellent resource on learning about ancient [...]
Press for Mawangdui
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009The New York Times How the Upper Crust Lived, and Died, in Early China By [...]
The Noble Tombs at Mawangdui
Saturday, May 16th, 2009Art and Life in the Changsha Kingdom, Third Century BCE to First Century CE
For the first time ever in the United States, China Institute’s exhibition Noble Tombs at Mawangdui presents over sixty rare artifacts excavated during 1972-74 from one of the most important archaeological sites discovered in the 20th century. Consisting of three tombs in the hill named Mawangdui located near the modern provincial capital of Changsha in the Hunan province, the site has provided a unique window into the beliefs and cultural practices of the early era of the Western Han dynasty (206 BCE-9 CE). The Mawangdui tombs are the resting places of Li Cang, the Marquis of Dai (d. 186 BCE), his wife, Xinzhui, Lady Dai (d. ca. 163), and a third person who is thought to be their son.
