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Compiled by Tina Burge NSW A Silk Road saga: Yu Hong’s sarcophagus The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 22 August – 10 November 2013 In 1999 a white marble sarcophagus, unlike any previous discovery, was excavated in Taiyuan, capital of China’s Shanxi province.
It belonged to a Turkic-speaking central Asian man, Yu Hong, and his wife, interred in the late 6th century.
From afar, it looks like a model of a Chinese building, but closer inspection reveals detailed carved or painted scenes of hunting, entertaining and religious worship totally foreign to Chinese traditions...