Shangguan Wan'er
In September 2013 it was announced that archeologists in China had discovered the tomb of Shangguan Wan'er near the airport at Xianyang, Shaanxi province. The tomb was badly damaged, perhaps deliberately according to Chinese archeologists, and only a very few burial goods were discovered inside, including some sculptures of people riding horses. The identity of the tomb's occupant was determined from an epitaph discovered in the tomb, which was inscribed "Epitaph of the late imperial consort (Zhaorong) Madam Shangguan of the Great Tang dynasty" () on its lid. From the epitaph it was written that Princess Taiping (Wu Zetian's daughter) arranged Shangguan's burial and gave her a proper funeral. Princess Taiping was clearly in extremely close relationship, some think in love, with Shangguan, as at the end of the epitaph, it was revealed that Princess Taiping likely wrote her obituary and described her death: "The mountain of muse collapsed, the River Xiao Xiang discontinued, a pearl concealed, a jade broken asunder." Princess Taiping also movingly added: "I will sing the song a woman sings to her spouse, for thousands of years to come." &lt;/ref&gt;&lt;/ref&gt;