2,000-year-old ‘celestial calendar’ found in ancient Chinese burial place
Each of the wood slips is marked with Chinese characters that associate with the conventional Tiangan Dizhi huge calendar. Perforations on their edges recommend they were as soon as looped. (Image credit: Chongqing Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute)
Archaeologists in China have actually discovered a strange set of rectangle-shaped wood pieces connected to an ancient huge calendar. The artifacts were found inside an extremely unspoiled 2,000-year-old burial place in the southwest of the nation.Each of the 23 wood slips has to do with an inch (2.5 centimeters) large and 4 inches (10 cm) long and shows a Chinese character associated to the Tiangan Dizhi, or "Ten Heavenly Stems and 12 Earthly Branches"-- a standard Chinese huge calendar developed throughout the Shan...