Archaeologist Agnes Hsu-Tang, director of New York's China Institute, travels across China to investigate three burial sites that reshaped what historians know about its ancient dynasties. In Sichuan she examines Jinsha, a Bronze Age city buried for millennia and rediscovered only recently, its gold and jade artifacts pointing to a kingdom absent from written records. In Guangzhou she enters the Nanyue King's Tomb, where archaeologists found a full burial suit made of jade plaques, a material believed to preserve the body for eternity. The third episode follows the discovery of a tomb in Henan province that set off international debate over whether it belongs to Cao Cao, the warlord and statesman whose life defined the era of the Three Kingdoms. Hsu-Tang walks excavation sites, examines objects in museum storerooms, and talks with the archaeologists who led each dig, using their findings to reconstruct court life, burial ritual, and succession politics from more than a thousand years ago. Three episodes, each built around one tomb and one unresolved question.