Northwest Kowloon
Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb
The Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum is located at Tonkin Street in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon. It is a five-minute walk from the Cheung Sha Wan MTR Station. The Museum is composed of an Eastern Han dynasty brick tomb and an exhibition gallery. The tomb was discovered in 1955 when the Government was leveling a hill slope at the Lei Cheng Uk Village for the construction of resettlement buildings.
According to the structure, calligraphy and content of the inscriptions on tomb bricks and tomb finds, it is believed that the tomb was built in the Eastern Han dynasty (25 - 220 AD). The tomb was declared as a gazetted monument in 1988 and is preserved permanently thereafter. Though it is closed to public for conservation reasons, visitors can still have a glimpse of the interior of the tomb through the glass panel at the Entrance Passage.
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