CCTV9英语新闻：Tomb sweeping and spring outing mark traditional Chinese festival

China's traditional Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, usually falls on the first day of the fifth solar term on the lunisolar calendar, and this year, it's the 4th of April. Tomb Sweeping is the most important custom of the festival.

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Scientists Open Tomb, Hoping to Identify Mona Lisa

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Dog stew offerings found in ancient Chinese tomb

XI'AN, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Archeologists(考古学家) in the northwestern Shaanxi Province confirmed Thursday, after weeks of lab work, that the bones they found in a bronze cooking vessel from a 2,400-year-old tomb belonged to a male dog under a y

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3,300 year-old tomb of army chief discovered in Egypt

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In less than ten years he conquered Egypt, Persia, Phoenicia, Syria and Palestine and made Damascus the capital of the first Mohammedan world empire. 在不到十年的时间里，奥玛尔率军相继征服了埃及、波斯、腓尼基、叙利亚、

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2016年CRI Occupant of 2,000-year-old Tomb Confirmed

According to the excavation experts, a jade seal found in the interior coffin of the tomb has helped identify its master as the Marquis of Haihun. The printing base of the seal is inscribed with the characters of Liu He, the name of the Marquis, who