A gang of modern-day tomb raiders have been caught after they rented a restaurant near the ancient Guanghui Temple in China and used it as a base to dig a 50 meter (165 ft) underground tunnel in an attempt to pillage the treasures inside.
The thieves were trying to reach the Hua Pagaoda, part of the Guanghui Temple, located in Zhengding, a county of southwestern Hebei province, China. The four-storey pagoda was first erected during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD), a period often regarded as a high point in Chinese civilization: a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. The pagoda is richly decorated with carvings of Buddhas, elephants, and aquatic animals. Hua Pagoda also has four small buildings attached, all crowned with an egg-shaped tip.
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