![]() ![]() ![]() The slips dated from 222 BC to 208 BC and covered politics, military, economy, law, culture and medicine. Over 36,000 wooden slips, with more than 200,000 Chinese characters written on them, were discovered in June 2002 in an abandoned well in western Hunan. To consolidate his power, he standardized the system of weights and measures, and issued currency.Ī previous study of the slips suggested the Qin Dynasty already had a mail service, probably even express delivery. Ying Zheng was the first person to unify China and declared himself Qin Shihuang, or the first emperor of Qin Dynasty (221 BC - 207 BC). "It required a highly efficient administration and strong executive force to pass down a government decree in ancient times when transportation and communication facilities were undeveloped," Zhang said. The discovery also demonstrated the emperor's centralisation of authority, the state-run 'Xinhua' news agency reported. 'The liquid is of significant value for the. 'It is the first time that mythical immortality medicines have been found in China,' Shi Jiazhen, head of the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Luoyang told Xinhua. It was initially thought that the liquid was liquor because it smelled like alcohol. Scientists say the 'elixir of immortality' was hidden within a 2,000-year-old bronze. Around 3.5 litres of the elixir of immortality were found in the tomb in the city of Luoyang during excavations last October. A MYSTERIOUS potion discovered in an ancient Chinese tomb was brewed to grant eternal life to whoever drank it. Another place, "Langya," in present day eastern Shandong Province near the sea, presented a herb collected from an auspicious local mountain. Turned out what they’d really found was the first immortality elixir that otherwise only existed in myth and legend. It was found secretly stowed away in a 2,000-year-old bronze pot in an ancient tomb in central China’s Henan province.
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