Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Ming Tombs - 明十三陵

50 kilometers northwest from Beijing City lies the Ming Tombs - the general name given to the mausoleums of 13 emperors of the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644).
定陵 - "The 1,195-sq.-m (12863-sq.-ft.) Underground Palace at Ding Ling, rediscovered in 1956, was the burial place of the Wanli emperor (reign 1572-1620), his wife, and his favorite concubine. The "palace" is a vast marble vault, buried 27m (89 ft.) underground and divided into five large chambers. The corpses have been removed, their red coffins replaced with cheap replicas, and burial objects moved to aboveground display rooms. The original marble thrones are still there, now covered in a small fortune of renminbi notes tossed by Chinese visitors." On the grounds of Dingling.
Stone Door.
Marble thrones in one of the chambers.

Museum displaying artifacts from the tombs.
Crown.

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