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A large tomb found while workers dug clay for bricks

Xigaoxue Village, Anyang County, China. Myths and legends. Debated. Free

The page does not show that this tomb was Cao Cao's, or that he had 72 graves made.

Debated. Experts do not agree whose tomb this is.

The tomb is in Xigaoxue Village, in Anyang County, Henan, China. Workers found it in 2008 while digging mud to make bricks. It covers about 740 square metres. The dig reported the remains of three people, and more than 250 objects, including gold, silver, pottery, paintings, a sword, and stone tablets. Some tablets were said to name the King of Wei Wu, a title linked with Cao Cao, who died in 220 AD. The page does not give an agreed age for the tomb.

Scholars have argued that the tablets may not be genuine, and one journal said the tomb may belong to later rulers of Wei, not to Cao Cao.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/cao-cao-and-his-seventy-two-decoy-tombs-so-which-one-real-001780