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The museum is an awe-inspiring place with its exhibition of the elegant and sophisticated artifacts excavated from a tomb of an ancient king in South China.
The Nanyue Kingdom existed from 203 B.C. to 111 B.C. in the West Han Dynasty. The stone-chamber tomb is for its second ruler and the largest one found in South China for that dynasty.
The tomb was originally 20m under Elephant Hill and was discovered in 1983. More than 1000 burial objects were excavated, among which are a chariot, gold silver vessels, musical instruments, and sacrificial human remains. The tomb is 10.85 meter in length and 12.43 meters in the widest place, consisting of the front and rear chambers. It is the earliest large-scale painted stone-chamber tomb to be found to the south of the Five Ridges.
The site is now the Western Han Nanyue King's Tomb Museum.
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