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Archaeological discovery: 5000 years ago, the tomb of Prince Fanshan in Liangzhu may have had a "cemetery"

2025-10-20   

On October 19th, the reporter learned from the sub forum of the third Liangzhu Forum on "Practical Innovation: City Site Archaeology, Large Site Protection, and Urban Rural Coordinated Development" that archaeological discoveries have revealed the possible existence of a "cemetery" around the Anti Mountain King's Mausoleum. The Anti Mountain King's Mausoleum is a royal tomb level burial site during the Liangzhu Culture period, containing multiple noble tombs and unearthed a large number of exquisite jade artifacts. Wang Ningyuan, director of the Science and Technology Archaeology Department of the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and archaeological leader of the Liangzhu Ancient City and Water Conservancy System Project, said that the latest archaeological discovery shows a rectangular wall like structure around the anti mountain site, forming a closed courtyard, which is preliminarily judged to be a "cemetery". Among them, the carbon-14 dating of the courtyard walls on the east and south sides shows that they are about 5000 years old, which is the same period as the excavation of the "Liangzhu Jade Cong King" and "Liangzhu Jade Yue King" in the Anti Mountain No. 12 tomb, indicating that the early tomb system had already formed at that time. Archaeological research has also found that there is a close connection between Fanshan and Liangzhu Ancient City, as well as the water conservancy system around the ancient city. Wang Ningyuan said that there are multiple rectangular earthen platforms in the north and south of the anti mountain area. These earthen platforms are strung together in a chain, forming a north-south, about 4-kilometer long earthen ridge that can extend all the way to Fengshan in the southwest corner of Liangzhu Ancient City. Wang Ningyuan believes that Tulong is essentially the east-west watershed and significant spatial marker of the Liangzhu site group. On its west side is the reservoir area of the water conservancy system, where there are almost no settlements from the Liangzhu period, while on its east side there are more than 300 ruins, indicating that "Liangzhu Ancient City is not an isolated metropolis, but a holistic project constructed synchronously with the water conservancy system and integrated with spatial structure." Archaeologists believe that this major archaeological discovery provides a key basis for further exploration of the urban functional layout, social structure and hierarchy, crowd organization relationships, and aristocratic funeral etiquette of Liangzhu society. (New Society)

Edit:GUAN LUCIANA Responsible editor:ZHANG LIN

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