Ruled just 27 days: Liu He’s tomb held 2M coins and 120kg of gold

2 million ancient coins, 120 kg of gold and a rare Confucius portrait found in the tomb of a Chinese emperor who ruled for just 27 days (AL generated) For more than 2,000 years, Liu He was remembered mainly as the emperor who lost the throne almost as quickly as he gained it. He ruled China for just 27 days in 74 BC before being removed and largely written out of imperial history. But when archaeologists opened his tomb in Jiangxi Province, they found something far more enduring than his brief reign: nearly 2 million ancient coins and around 120 kilograms of gold, as per reports.The burial site, known as the Tomb of the Marquis of Haihun, has become one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made in China. It did more than uncover treasure. It helped reshape the story of a man history had dismissed and gave researchers a remarkably detailed look at the wealth, politics and culture of the Western Han Dynasty.How the tomb was foundThe discovery did not begin as a glamorous excavation. It started with a suspected robbery. In 2011, villagers near Guanxi Village in Nanchang noticed a suspicious tunnel dug into the ground near Guodun Mountain. Archaeologists investigated a...