Photos: Ancient Chinese Tomb Full of Bronze Vessels ----- Owen Jarus, Live Science

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https://www.livescience.com/61169-photos-ancient-china-tomb.html

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[ms liberty]

1. K&R. Very cool. n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

2. Amazing, just amazing

[Nitram]

3. Great collection! The spiky one here is kind of scary. "The Devil's Tureen."

[magicarpet]

4. That's the spiky sadomasochistic - soup bowl.

[parkia00]

5. Also dangerous!!!

High lead content in the metal. The wine brew the upper classes drank from these cast bronze vessels literally drove them silly.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Interesting....

[Nitram]

7. Here's some interesting research on the topic of lead poisoning

from Chinese bronze vessels.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20849332