Chinese archaeologists have unearthed 31 tombs dating back about 4,000 years from the bottom of a reservoir in Fuqing city in southeast China's Fujian province, the state media reported on Thursday.
The 31 pre-historic tombs are scattered in an area of 800 square meters at the bottom of the Dongzhang Reservoir,
which has dried up due to continual droughts.
Archaeologists have excavated the area during the past two months, unearthing 123 funeral objects from the tombs. The relics range from pottery to stone tools to jade ware. Each of these tombs is about 2 meters long and 0.5 to 0.6 meters
wide, Xinhua news agency reported.
Comparing with articles unearthed from other parts of Fujian, experts concluded that the tombs belonged to a period between the late New Stone Age and the early Bronze Age, dating back to 3,500 to 4,000