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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus9/06/2016 9:43:02 pm PDT

A bit of cultural news:

Chinese experts restore 1,400-year-old crown

Chinese archeologists have restored a 1,400-year-old royal crown, which belonged to the wife of Yang Guang, or Emperor Yang of Sui, the second and last monarch of the short-lived Sui Dynasty (581-618).

The crown was unearthed in the tomb of the queen, known as Empress Xiao, in 2012 in Yangzhou, eastern Chinaā€™s Jiangsu Province.

It is the oldest official crown of a queen ever found in China.

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That Xinhua article doesnā€™t come with a picture but I believe this is the crown:

ecns.cn

Thatā€™s a pretty elaborate headdressā€¦ looks like it would do a brain-scan or something.