NANCHANG, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) – Millennia before China’s smog made world headlines, Chinese lamp makers were coming up with designs to reduce air pollution, a new discovery has showed.
Chinese archaeologists excavating a noted Western Han Dynasty (206 BC – 24 AD) cemetery in east China’s Jiangxi Province have unearthed two 2,000-year-old bronze lamps that can “swallow” smoke.
The lamps are both the shape of a goose catching a fish in its mouth. The light is attached to the fish. Smoke emitted during the burning of wax can enter the bird’s body via an intake on the fish, travel through its neck and be dissolved by water stored in its hollow belly, Xin Lixiang, who leads the excavation team, told Xinhua on Thursday. Read more.
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