Ancient tomb raider murder mystery discovered in China
The Art Newspaper
October 28, 2021
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Archaeologists find body of young Chinese man stabbed to death and dumped in a robbers' tunnel 1300 years ago.
Archaeologists have revealed a 1300-year-old Chinese murder mystery in a tomb raiders' shaft.
While excavating the tomb at Shiyanzi cemetery, in China’s north-central Ningxia region, the team discovered the skeleton of a young man riddled with stab wounds.
The man, who the team estimate was around 25-years-old, was thought to have been still alive when he was thrown into the tomb raiders' shaft and left to die.
The archeologists think the murder took place at some point between AD 640 and 680.
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