Photo taken on Jan. 17, 2008 shows a piece of ancient fresco,displayed a meeting between the two famous Chinese philosophers Laozi (about 600 B.C.-500 B.C.) and Confucius (551 B.C.-479 B.C.), discovered in a tomb dating back to about 2,000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-25 A.D.) at a museum in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province. The well-preserved color frescos included images of drinking, dancing, cock fighting, women servants and historical stories. And they were the best preserved ones discovered in the region so far and would be valuable in the study of funeral and folk customs and painting arts during the Western Han Dynasty.(Xinhua Photo/Xu Suhui)
Two staff members check the frescos discovered in a tomb dating back to about 2,000 years ago in the Western Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-25 A.D.) at a museum in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province. The well-preserved color frescos included images of drinking, dancing, cock fighting, women servants and historical stories. And they were the best preserved ones discovered in the region so far and would be valuable in the study of funeral and folk customs and painting arts during the Western Han Dynasty.(Xinhua Photo/Xu Suhui)