Found the tomb of the Nguyen Dynasty's wife at the construction site

Ban ruled Nguyen Phuoc Toc determined that the tomb of a king's wife had been leveled after finding the tombstone.

On the afternoon of June 24, the Board ruled Nguyen Phuoc Toc and the authorities found a stone stele carved the name of the wife of a Nguyen dynasty in the area that was leveled as a parking lot near the tomb of Phi Phi - King Tu Duc's wife later. almost 3 days of searching.

The stone stele inscribed the name and title of a Nguyen Dynasty king's wife.(Photo: Vo Thanh).

The stone stele is about 30cm wide, 60cm high, engraved with the grave of "Tien tieu Tai Cuu during the period of Le Thi Thu Shu" (the grave of Thuc Thuan's surname is the Le family). From here, Ban ruled Nguyen Phuoc Toc and the authorities defined, the leveled area has a tomb of his wife a Nguyen dynasty king.

Ban ruled Nguyen Phuoc Toc to move stone steles to a place called a grave.(Photo: Vo Thanh).

The board of Nguyen Phuoc Toc rulers put the stele near the supposed grave site to smoke and wait for the authorities to decide.

According to Ton That Giap (who supervised and found the stele), the Nguyen kings used to have many wives and were divided into 9 different ranks. Many low-ranking people are not recorded in the family lineage.

The process of excavation, new lineage pay attention to male graves and famous women such as Tu Cung and Tien Cung . and many tombs of smaller women are omitted or do not know the location.

A bowl of incense placed temporarily in the place is said to be a grave grave.(Photo: Vo Thanh).

Previously, people living near the Tomb of Tu Duc King reflected the construction of a 17,000-square-meter tourist car park that leveled an ancient tomb with an area of ​​about 40m ² . Local people said that this grave of Mrs. My Phi - one of Tu Duc's wives.

Mr. Ton That Vien Bao, Chairman of the Council of Nguyen Phuoc Toc said that the Councils' Council has informed the Hue Monuments Conservation Center about the above-mentioned incident so that authorities can take part."Initially looking for a family of family members, I have not seen her name as My Phi," said Bao.

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Tuan - Director of Value Chain Co., Ltd, the investment unit of the parking lot for Tu Duc King's tomb, confessed : "The project area we received according to the drawing is only mausoleum of Mrs. Hoc Phi, not at all. There was Mrs. My Phi's mausoleum, we stopped leveling the ground to wait for verification.