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For nearly a thousand years, Chinese people believed an ancient emperor was buried in a mountain outside Xian, the city in northwest China that was once the centre of political power across multiple empires. It turned out the tomb lied several kilometres away in the valley. Emperor Wen was the fifth ruler of the Han dynasty (206BC-220AD) and was originally.
The identity of the owner of an ancient tomb near Xi’an dating back 2,000 years was finally determined to be a famous emperor, after being mistaken for decades. The tomb was found to belong to the Wen Emperor, the third emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (260BC-AD25).