Installing a 6th-century sarcophagus

In 1999 a white marble sarcophagus, unlike any previous discovery, was excavated in Taiyuan, the capital of China’s Shanxi province. It belonged to a Turkic-speaking central Asian man, Yu Hong, and his wife, who had been interred in 592 and 598 CE respectively.

Curator of Asian art Yin Cao and exhibitions registrar Charlotte Cox discuss the challenges involved in transporting and displaying a 6th-century sarcophagus.