Suspected Tomb Bricks and Monuments Appear at Sun Yat-sen University The archaeologists are investigating the site

Found the scene of the suspected ancient tomb Chen Tian photographed

Yangcheng Evening News Reporters Huang Zhouhui and Chen Liang, intern Chen Xiaonan reported: Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus South Campus found ancient tombs? On December 13, a student at Sun Yat-sen University posted that the suspected tomb on the section from Huaishitang to Yifulou on the south campus of the school's Guangzhou campus was discovered by the campus construction team while digging a water pipe. The reporter learned from the Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology that earlier in the day, teachers and students majoring in archaeology at the School of Sociology and Anthropology of Sun Yat-sen University had already inspected the site and made surveying and mapping records. The Guangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has followed up according to the procedures and sent people to the site to investigate, and the latest progress will be released in the follow-up.

From the photos provided by the students, it can be seen that a long ditch was dug at the site, the ditch was about a meter deep, and a large amount of dirt was piled up on the ground. In the dirt on the side of the middle ditch wall, a wall made of bricks can be seen. Several staff members were scrutinizing the ditch, while others rummaged through the dirt piled up on the ground, and a large pile of cleared bricks lay on the nearby grass.

Previously, the campus of Sun Yat-sen University has excavated ancient tombs many times. As early as 1981, the Zhongda Electric Education Building excavated an ancient tomb from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the teachers and students of the Department of Anthropology of the University carried out excavation and cleaning. In 2006, 22 ancient tombs were discovered on the north campus of Sun Yat-sen University's Guangzhou campus. In January 2019, 13 ancient tombs were excavated near Chunhui Garden, the south campus of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus, including 1 Eastern Han Tomb, 2 Ming Tombs, and 10 Qing Tombs. In the Tomb of the Eastern Han Dynasty alone, 35 pieces (sets) of cultural relics were excavated.

Why have ancient tombs been found many times on the south campus of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Campus? It is understood that this area is suitable for the production and life of the ancients, and then buried here after death, so ancient tombs and cultural relics have been found many times. In 2019, a number of ancient tombs were excavated near the school's Chunhui Garden. Archaeologists said in an interview that the canteen project plot of the east district of the south campus of CUHK Guangzhou Campus is located in the underground cultural relics burial area of "Kangle Village - Xingang West Road", and was announced as the first batch of underground cultural relics burial areas in Guangzhou in 2014. In this area, there are Fenggang, Magangding and other hills, the terrain is higher, and Neolithic relics have been found in the past and Eastern Han tombs have been excavated.

Source: Yangcheng Evening News