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Sun Xun
Fairly recent news. My Chinese is a bit spotty, but here's the link.

Recently discovered tomb believed to belong to Sun Ce, founder of East Wu

Longer story

From what I understand (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), an archaeologist by the name of Wang Yin highly suspects that a tomb discovered recently in Nanjing is the burial site of Sun Ce and lists several reasons, including the size and quality of the tomb, the location, the inscriptions, etc.

Sun Ce is the most likely candidate, while his mother is a distant second, and other possibilities include Lu Xun and Lu Meng.

Can someone who actually reads Chinese fluently (I have to look up about 30% of the characters with a dictionary) confirm or deny this? As a relentless Sun Ce fan, this is exciting news for me.
poseph
I doubt the tomb in question is that of Sun Ce or any of the famous related San Guo figures.

Both stories are from April 2006. If no other interesting news has come out in the interim, then it is probably nothing.

The article does not confirm that any of the artifacts unearthed so far is of San Guo origin.

They base their conjecture purely on good feng shui, the coincidence that the location of the tomb is call "Sun's Tomb", some goat shaped lamp were found (symbol of piety and luck), and complex marking on the tomb's bricks.
Sun Xun
Hmmmm. Okay. So this may not be legit.

Does anybody know of any sites attributed to Sun Ce that have been found, then?
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