Chinese authorities have approved a plan to turn the tomb of the Marquis of Haihun into a national-level archeological relics¹ park.

 

中国政府计划将海昏侯墓打造成一个国家级考古遗迹公园。
 

 

The tomb, dating back to Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 25 A.D.), is located near Nanchang in east China's Jiangxi Province. It is one of the few imperial tombs that have not been looted.

 

After an assessment² initiated³ by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in March, the park construction plan was recently approved.

 

With a planned area of 12.46 square km, the park will preserve the tomb in its original form by the side of Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake.

 

The excavation⁴ of the tomb began in 2011. The remains⁵ of the Liu He, known as the Marquis of Haihun, were found in a coffin⁶ in an interior chamber⁷ and removed in January 2016, for further research. More than 10,000 artifacts have been unearthed⁸ from the tomb so far.

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