Excavating an ancient tomb, discovering 'golden millet through the air' for 2,000 years

Chinese archaeologists recently discovered an ancient and well-preserved tomb dating from the early Western Han Dynasty in Shaanxi province. In the ancient tomb, more than 100 precious cultural relics have been unearthed, including gilded bronze, jade, iron and other precious items.

The most surprising thing was that a large pot of pottery was filled with golden millet, such a huge volume is extremely rare, not often found in previous archaeological studies.

Excavating ancient tombs, discovered "food through the air" for 2000 years.

After the news was revealed, many netizens thought that this was really a miracle and called this "food through space for more than 2,000 years", which is indeed rare.

On the posted information, archaeologists from the Institute of Archeology of Shaanxi Province recently discovered a well-preserved Western Han Dynasty tomb in the village of Dai Bao Tu. Through the excavation process, archaeologists confirmed that there are more than 100 very valuable cultural relics, including a large treasure of rare ceramics. This pottery warehouse is about 1m wide, 80cm high, full of grain.

Golden millet was found in the pottery warehouse of the ancient tomb.

According to Dien Da, an expert in plant archeology at the School of Cultural Heritage of Northwestern University, most of the seeds in the pottery warehouse are golden millet. Millet was a staple food crop in northern China in ancient times. Both the Xia and Shang dynasties cultivated millet and this plant was cultivated by the people until the Song Dynasty. Even up to the Liao and Jin dynasties, the central plains still used millet as a staple food crop.

As for the amount of food found in the tomb, archaeologists also need to conduct a carbon test to analyze more details. Besides, hemp fiber was also found. They said that they have carried out cleaning and dissection of relics in the tombs, setting up specialized teams in fields such as field archeology, cultural relics protection, science and technology archeology and will conduct research and protect more carefully the excavated cultural relics.