The tomb of Shangguan Wan'er, a famous female politician in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), in Xianyang, Shaanxi province believed to be ravaged on Sept 4. No coffin was found in a one-month excavation, and a large portion of the patio and the corridor to the tomb were damaged, suspected to be destructions from officials in history, archaeologists on site said.

Shangguan Wan'er (664?[1]–21 July 710), imperial consort rank Zhaorong (昭容), posthumous name Wenhui (文惠), was the granddaughter of Shangguan Yi and was one of the women most famous in Chinese history for her talent. She was a poet, writer and politician of the Tang Dynasty, as well as an imperial consort (concubine) of Emperor Zhongzong.