Is China’s fabled Empress Dowager Huayang buried near an airport? A study says yes

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Researchers say a looted tomb near Xian’s main runway belongs to the adoptive grandmother of the country’s first emperor

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Shi Huang Published: 10:30pm, 19 Sep 2026

An airport is an unlikely place to search for national origins but researchers say they have uncovered the tomb of the woman behind the man who unified China – next to a major city runway.

The researchers said the tomb was believed to belong to Empress Dowager Huayang, the adoptive grandmother of Qin Shi Huang , who unified the warring states more than 2,200 years ago.

“I believe the most likely identity of the tomb owner is Empress Dowager Huayang,” Zhao Hanqing, from the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, said in a paper published in the Chinese journal Archaeology and Cultural Relics in July.

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