{"id":27551,"date":"2023-08-15T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T06:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=239547"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:11:34","slug":"secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of ancient Chinese tombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Professor Jessica Rawson delves into the story of ancient Chinese civilisation through an unusual avenue \u2013 its tombs <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Rob Attar\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 15 August 2023 at 06:20 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>We\u2019ve all heard of the astonishing Terracotta Warriors, but they are just one of a number of fascinating ancient burials to have been discovered across China. Speaking to Robert Attar, Professor Jessica Rawson explores the contents of a handful of these burials, to investigate what they can tell us about Chinese civilisation across 3,000 years.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-239547-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/08\/secretsofancientchinesetombs-e815bd0.mp3?_=1\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/08\/secretsofancientchinesetombs-e815bd0.mp3\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/08\/secretsofancientchinesetombs-e815bd0.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Jessica Rawson is the author of <em>Life and Afterlife in Ancient China<\/em> (Allen Lane, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Afterlife-Ancient-China-Jessica-Rawson\/dp\/0241472709\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0\" rel=\"sponsored noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/life-and-afterlife-in-ancient-china\/jessica-rawson\/\/9780241472705?awc=3787_1692004148_3d0d7de7c762e40389eb1f6f71b55c53&amp;utm_source=259955&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_campaign=Genie+Shopping+CSS\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Professor Jessica Rawson delves into the story of ancient Chinese civilisation through an unusual avenue \u2013 its tombs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":27552,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/08\/secrets-of-ancient-chinese-tombs.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Professor Jessica Rawson delves into the story of ancient Chinese civilisation through an unusual avenue \u2013 its tombs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/27551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}