Valuable Musical Instruments Unearthed in Ancient Tomb

A large number of musical instruments have been found in a well-preserved cemetery in east China’s Jiangxi Province recently. Archaeologists discovered two sets of bells and one set of musical stones in the northern corridor of the main tomb of “Haihunhou“ (Marquis of Haihun) dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.- 25 A.D.). Moreover, other traditional Chinese musical instruments such as plucked instruments and pan pipes, along with 200 tomb figures of music and dance were discovered. “They’re s
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