King Nanyue Mausoleum Museum

The museum-mausoleum of the kings of Nanyue in Guangzhou is included in the list of eighty most famous museums in the world. Located on an area of more than 10 thousand square meters, the mausoleum is an ancient family tomb of representatives of the ancient Western Han dynasty. Although the museum is called a mausoleum, there are no embalmed bodies in it, there are only very ancient tombs found as a result of archaeological research. The museum also contains about a thousand ancient relics of that time.

Studies of tombs and objects found in them have proved that it was the city of Guangzhou that was the beginning of the Maritime Silk Road. The museum also recounts the funerary tradition of Chinese kings, touching on mystical details and ancient oriental traditions.