(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121218-grave-da-03.photoblog900.jpg)Jon Woo / ReutersVillagers carry a gravestone of an ancestral tomb away from a construction site in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China on December 18, 2012.By David R Arnott, NBC News(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121218-grave-da-04.380;380;7;70;0.jpg)APWorkers lay the foundations for a residential complex around a solitary tomb site in Taiyuan on December 6, 2012. A tomb which was left standing in the middle of a Chinese construction site began to be exhumed on Tuesday.
Helped by local villagers, family members relocated four coffins containing the remains of the deceased, Reuters reports.
For seven months a 33-foot mound of earth containing the tomb, the sole survivor from a cemetery that had previously occupied the site, had stood at the center of a building project in the city of Taiyuan, Shanxi province.
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