The Museum of the Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum of the Nanyue King (Chinese: 西漢南越王博物館 Cantonese: Sai Hon Nam Yuet Wong Mou Bok Mat Gun; Vietnamese: Tây Hán Nam Việt Vương Bác Vật Quán ) houses the 2,000-year-old tomb of the Nanyue King Zhao Mo in Guangzhou.
It was named a Major National Historical Site in 1996 and is renowned for its rare assemblage of funerary artifacts representing the diffusion of cultures throughout the Lingnan region during the Han dynasty.
[1] Hidden 20 meters (65.6 feet) underground, the tomb is made up of 750 huge stones with colorful murals.
The tomb has yielded more than 1,000 burial artifacts; a chariot, more than 50 cooking implements, among which gold, silver and bronze vessels, trivets, 10 metal swords, musical instruments, such as a set of eight bronze bells, chime bells, stone chimes and a zither with its components, an armored breastplate containing 709 metal plates, shields and spears, and human sacrifices were found (15 courtiers were buried alive with him to serve him in death).
The large scale of jade pendants worn by the deceased and his wives also amounts to imperial rank.