Shocking Discovery: 2,000-Year-Old Letter to the “King of the Underworld” Requests Official Title—Sent with Gold, Silver, and Beautiful Servants!
As a place with a privileged location and a feng shui treasure, Ky Nam Citadel, the ancient capital of So Quoc during the Eastern Zhou period (today north of the ancient Jingzhou Citadel, Hubei Province ), was chosen as the resting place of numerous nobles, princes and ministers of the Qin and Han dynasties. Therefore, this area has been carefully preserved since the 1950s, and it was not until 1973 that various excavations, both large and small, began. During excavations of tomb number 168 of the Western Han Dynasty, a surprisingly well-preserved corpse was discovered. Not only were the…
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