A 1000-year-old “Chinese couple” have been pulled out of their brick-walled graves in an ancient cemetery to make way for a motorway.
Archaeologists from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Hunan Province , in central China, were recently called out to a discovery at the ancient Tangjiawan cemetery, which is about to become the new Ningxiang-Shaoshan motorway.
The archaeologists first discovered scattered charcoal, several pottery shards and a nail that had been used for closing the 1,000-year-old tomb, which contained the married couple’s bodies. A report in China Daily says the couple had been buried together with a window in a dividing wall, or “fairy bridge,” which the archaeologists think served to connect the husband and wife enabling them to further their romance in the afterlife.
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