200 in the rain

All preparations for excavations began more than a year, on May 8.2010, while Prof. Dr. Pham Duc Manh and other archaeologists City coordinate with the VH-TT-phase study DL Dong Nai monitoring and evaluation tomb is located in Cau Xeo regional planning clearance to build the highway through the territory of Long Thanh district.

Tombs lies dormant inside the existing road, near the intersection about 51 and 25 extended, deep within the population at the center of Long Thanh town more than a kilometer from the city of Bien Hoa and about 22 km as the crow flies southeast.

The first thing the survey team to guess the social position of power unprecedented in the grave is located by the famous architecture, on the ground surface (positive part) to 40m2 wide and brought many unique relics from the grave Other ancient past unearthed. It is a closed architecture rectangle, with the outer guard cast a solid block of roof structure to train an elephant, representing about 24.38 m2. Inside the ring of protection as high as 1.5 m 8.5 m long tombs, width 4.5 m. Behind the tomb is an auditorium-style church folded front, between the perforated carved a poem that left some pretty clear kanji. Two front side is a pair of sentences, frame the moment Han is well defined and the outermost pair of the reliefs "sea dragons reign" ... One of the most remarkable archaeological investigation by the school raised about the Cau Xeo tomb is: "The ancients had an extra pair creation on the altar of embankments symmetrically equivalent to the altar of beer - each supporting the foot soles to knees, with the altar and statues sculptures crafts pair of two symmetric parties ". It is the castle (to protect the perimeter). Go to the forecourt of the tomb, Prof. Dr. Pham Duc Manh said: "There are more decorative, and architectural coordination with its own unique features, such as the coordination between symmetric pairs of the altar wall and the lobby, or the reliefs are subject to life with the birds and animals such as dragon, unicorn, tortoise, worship, deer, various species of flowers like most plants, trees si, the clouds so stylized and tissue- decorative type found only in the ancient tombs of notable lineage right before your period. So grave monument Cau Xeo compounds should be recovered intact floating architecture (above ground) was very nice to put on a site protected for historical and cultural studies ... ".

The body covered with lotus leaf

After concluding the survey, by decision of the provincial People's Committee, excavation team includes Prof. Dr. Pham Duc Manh (the head), archaeologist Do Dinh removed from the culture of City officials and provincial Dong Nai includes the: Le Tri Dung, Phan Thi Thinh, Pham Thi Ngoc Thao, Do Ngoc Chien, Nguyen Hong An, Nguyen Chien Thang, Luong Toan Thang, Nguyen Tri Decree, Vu Manh Phuong Quach Thi Ngoc Huong, has been established to conduct excavations in half a month, from 5.9 to 20.9.2011.

The results noted: "The body bones intact, the shroud so well with the beam ligaments with the first knot (middle of the shroud and primary shroud has a layer of paper, ivory panels banners dark brown), then insert objects filled full to the mouth closed coffin. In addition to 15-20 cm thick layer of ash end plate location, clothing employers acne crushed sintered together into blocks, which can recognize the multiple layers of silk, piece, brocade in fussy flower, delicate, long documents and paper files inserted along the narrow sides, lined with sedge mat layer below. The employer (the tomb) was hair, leg guards knee black leather square feet carry the body with double curved tapered nose, looks petals finely embroidered with gold (inside the two vertebrae toes fall out). " The block adhesion of clothing above shows the owner of the tomb with over 10 shrouding mantle with colorful silk fabrics, including purple, pink is the color of nobility used in the past. What do people in the excavation team was surprised at the surface of the body covered from head to toe, lotus leaf, which leaves intact, apply a layer on top of the coffin.

According to researchers, this is rarely found in ancient tombs excavated in the past and the question lotus leaf is covered like to contribute to "keep the correct" long decay, or to a related purpose to the belief that metaphysical beliefs?