(Ecns.cn)--A tomb dating back to the Liu Song Dynasty (420-478 AD) was discovered recently at a construction site in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, reported the Yangtze Evening Post on Wednesday.
The tomb has been robbed several times, but still contained a few rare relics, including a 50-centimeter-tall stone figurine and a 20-centimeter-long deer antler, revealed Yue Yong, an archaeologist at the Nanjing City Museum.
Yue added that the tomb, with a coffin chamber of 8 meters in length, 4 meters in width and 3.6 meters in height, is the biggest of over 30 tombs found nearby.
"No written evidence has yet been found in the tomb, so it's still hard to identify its owners. But since there are two coffin seats, the tomb should belong to two people, who were probably a couple," Yue said.
Yue speculated that the owners were highly privileged and probably relatives of the emperor or top senior officials of the imperial court.
