Collection Highlights
Highlights of the museum include:
- Fossils of the Lantian Man (preceded Peking Man),
- The Deer Pattern Eaves Tile from the Qin Dynasty,
- The Kneeling Archer, a 120 cm tall figure unearthed in 1977 from Emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb
- The Four Footed Li, a Shang Dynasty bronze cooking utensil,
- Playing Polo, a Tang Dynasty mural of people playing polo in China,
- The Empress's Seal, a jade seal from the Western Han Dynasty, excavated near the tomb of Emperor Gao Zu, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty — one of the most important imperial seals ever found in China.
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