1,300-YEAR-OLD TOMB DISCOVERED.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A farmer digging in his yard unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. a 1,300-year-old tomb from the Tang Dynasty Tang dynasty or T'ang dynasty (618–907) Chinese dynasty that succeeded the short-lived Sui and became a golden age for poetry, sculpture, and Buddhism. with a skeleton, ceramic animals and a statue of a warrior, the official Xinhua news agency “Xinhua” redirects here. For other uses, see Xinhua (disambiguation). The Xinhua News Agency (Simplified Chinese: 新华社; Traditional Chinese: reported Wednesday. Zhang Yinqi made the discovery in the village of Dongfengsi in Hebei province, south of Beijing, Xinhua said. It didn't say when Zhang found the tomb, buried 6-1/2 feet below ground. Xinhua said the tomb dates to about 688 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty. Among the 46 ceramic figurines inside were a pig, lion and camel, maids, female musicians and a 23-inch-tall warrior holding a snake, Xinhua said. |
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