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Xuzhou.

Enter the world of Han kings through rock-cut tombs, jade burial objects and stone pictures of work, feasting and imagined immortality.

Rows of small excavated terracotta warriors remain embedded in an earthen pit in Xuzhou.
Han-period terracotta figures in Pit 2 at the King of Chu tomb complex in Xuzhou.

The Han world beyond death

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Shizishan Chu King's Tomb

A royal burial cut into a hill, best read alongside the objects recovered from Xuzhou's Han tombs.

Xuzhou Han Stone Relief Art Museum

A museum for reading ancient pictures: banquets, weaving, processions and supernatural worlds carved into architectural stone.
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  1. Han-period terracotta figures in Pit 2 at the King of Chu tomb complex in Xuzhou.Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China · CC0 1.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
  2. The excavated approach to the Shizishan royal tomb beneath a modern protective visitor structure.Yumeto · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.
  3. A Han stone relief depicting a drum-dance scene in the Xuzhou Han Dynasty Stone Relief Art Museum.Augustohai · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized and converted to WebP.