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Wei and Jin Brick Tombs

The Guoyuan–Xincheng Wei–Jin tomb group lies about eighteen kilometres east of Jiayuguan’s urban area. City heritage materials record more than 600 painted bricks depicting farming, banquets, travel and other scenes of life in the corridor.

A rectangular painted tomb brick showing two seated figures facing one another.
A painted brick from Tomb 7 at the Wei-Jin tombs of Xincheng, Jiayuguan, depicting a board game.

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  1. A painted brick from Tomb 7 at the Wei-Jin tombs of Xincheng, Jiayuguan, depicting a board game.Author not specified on source page · Public Domain Mark 1.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.