Word: empress
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...truth, much of the loot from Empress Dou's tomb--and the vast majority from countless other sites across Asia--is still missing. In India, Superintendent Shrivastava is delighted to have nabbed the nation's top smuggler. But months after the momentous arrest, he has tracked down only a fraction of the relics Ghia is believed to have looted over the past three decades. Since news of the arrest was made public, three collectors have written to the police, offering to return stolen items they say they purchased in good faith. But most of the stolen treasures, still hidden inside...
...gang broke into the 2,000-year-old tomb of China's Empress Dou and made off with a slew of rare artifacts. Here...
...Near Empress Dou's burial mound, raiders use a TANGAN to take soil samples, which indicate the exact location of the 131 ft. by 131 ft. tomb, buried deep underground...
...EMPRESS DOU'S GRAVE...
...Empress Dou's coffin is surrounded by a wooden structure called huangchang ticou, a burial method reserved for Han dynasty emperors and their wives and concubines...