Dig unearths 2,400-year-old horses, chariots

ZHENGZHOU - Archaeologists in Henan province have excavated a pit containing chariots and skeletons of horses, perhaps 2,400 years old, beside a tomb possibly belonging to a lord.

The so-called No 3 Horse and Chariot Pit is one of a cluster of tombs belonging to nobility of the Zheng State, a vassal state during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770-221 BC), near Xinzheng.

Since February, four chariots and 90 horse skeletons have been unearthed from the largest of three clustered pits that have been excavated so far.