Nanyue Kingdom Palace Museum

This guide to the Nanyue Kingdom Palace Museum in Guangzhou follows archaeologist Mai Yinghao, who spent nearly four decades searching for the lost capital of the Nanyue kingdom before construction crews cut into Zhongshan Fourth Road in 1995 and hit stone. It traces what came up next, a carved stone pool naming the capital, and two years later a curving stone water channel running more than one hundred eighty meters, along with hundreds of turtle and terrapin bones inside the pool. You'll hear about Zhao Tuo, the Qin general who carved this kingdom out of a collapsing empire, and what he wanted this garden for. Look down through the glass floor to see the stones Mai spent his career chasing.