Chinese archaeologists have found the country's oldest silk fabrics and wrought steel objects in a 2,000-year-old tomb in the city of Xuzhou in east China's Jiangsu Province.

Experts have identified the iron weapons, tools and armors in the tomb as dating back to the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.).

They say that ancient Chinese invented the metallurgical technology for making wrought steel before the year 154 B.C.

On the armor pieces, they also discovered some silk fabrics which may be the oldest every found in China.