Imperial Tombs of China.(Grand Exhibition Hall, Cook Convention Center, Memphis, Tennessee)

USA Today (Magazine) | July 1, 1995 | Copyright

Considered to be the portals between the worlds of the living and the dead, these burial sites contained treasures to ensure that members of the royal family could continue their extravagance in the afterlife.

THE LARGEST exhibition from China's mysterious underground palaces ever to come to the U.S., "Imperial Tombs of China," currently is on view at the Memphis (Tenn.) Cook Convention Center's Grand Exhibition Hall. Spanning seven dynasties (500 B.C.-1900 A.D.), it includes more than 250 objects excavated from the tombs of China's most prominent emperors and ancient rulers. ...

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