Princess Li Jingxun was only nine when she died, yet from her resting place, she gifted the modern world a rare glimpse into 7th-century China—a forg…
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For centuries, Chinese funerals demanded living sacrifices to accompany the dead in the afterlife
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Five rare traditional Chinese instruments with thousands of years of history
For over a decade, experts have been examining cryptic bamboo slips that may contain a lost version of Chinese history
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