Qualla: Yinan Tombs https://qualla.com/yinan-tombs en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Yinan Tombs https://qualla.com/yinan-tombs Yinan Tombs: Introduction https://qualla.com/yinan-tombs/ Buried beneath the farmland of Yinan County in Shandong Province, a pair of stone tombs held a secret for nearly two thousand years. When archaeologists opened them in 1954, they found not gold or jade, but something arguably more valuable: forty-two carved stone reliefs that amount to a visual encyclopedia of life during the Eastern Han dynasty. Warriors charge on horseback, acrobats perform feats that prefigure modern circus arts, and the dead are honored with processions of musicians and dancers. Above it all, the tombs are roofed with corbelled stonework that looks startlingly similar to techniques used thousands of kilometers away in ancient West Asia.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/k/4/yinan-tombs-wp/wwk4-yinan-tombs-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Yinan Tombs: Acrobats and Barbarians in Stone https://qualla.com/yinan-tombs/ The reliefs that line the Yinan tombs read like a graphic novel of second-century China. One panel, known as the Yuewu baixi tu, depicts a performance of music and dance combined with acrobatics, offering scholars one of the most detailed visual records of ancient Chinese enterta...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/k/4/yinan-tombs-wp/wwk4-yinan-tombs-acrobats-and-barbarians-in-stone.mp3 0:06 2 full Yinan Tombs: Architecture That Crossed Continents https://qualla.com/yinan-tombs/ What makes the Yinan tombs architecturally remarkable is their corbelled roofing. These are sometimes called "lantern" roofs, built by stacking progressively smaller stone courses inward until they close at the top. This technique was well established in ancient West Asia, from M...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/k/4/yinan-tombs-wp/wwk4-yinan-tombs-architecture-that-crossed-continents.mp3 0:06 3 full Yinan Tombs: From Discovery to National Monument https://qualla.com/yinan-tombs/ The tombs were discovered in 1954 and have since become one of the most studied Han dynasty archaeological sites in China. In 2001, they were added to the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China, a designation that marks them as sites of national historical and cultur...

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