On the night of January 4, 2019, a group of tomb robbers climbed to the top of Dayun Mountain in Xuyi, Jiangsu Province, and they sneaked to a stone slab somewhere on the top of the mountain, and suddenly a bottomless hole was exposed.
This was the robber cave they had carefully dug for a month, and there was an ancient tomb below, and tonight they could enter the main burial chamber and bring out countless treasures out of the tomb, and Zhao Jianxin, who was the leader at this time, was almost excited to call out.
He ordered two men to enter the cave first, and an hour passed, but they were not seen coming up, and strange noises kept coming from the dark bottom of the cave.
Zhao Jianxin noticed something strange and personally took a pair of people into the robbery cave, but the two also disappeared. In the midst of the thief's cave that did not see the end of the year.
Dayunshan Han Tomb Chamber
The people who remained outside the cave were overwhelmed by this sudden accident, and hurriedly pulled the rope together and pulled the four people out of the cave in a hurry, it was too late, the two members who had previously gone down the cave had died, and then Zhao Jianxin and the member were already dying.
After hastily burying the two members who had died, they drove away with the two dying men in fear.
Two days later, the bodies of the two men were discarded in the courtyard of an abandoned factory building, along with the car. After receiving the call from the reporter, the public security criminal investigators immediately rushed to the scene, and then according to the license plate information, the remaining 12 tomb robbers were quickly arrested.
What happened to them at the bottom of the cave? Did you encounter a mysterious deadly mechanism? Or did the owner of the tomb punish them for disturbing the tomb?
Later, after many arguments, the police concluded that all four members died from the toxic gas left by the underground blast of gunpowder.
Wrong gold and silver copper piers
A month after the case was solved, a professional archaeological team formed by the Nanjing Museum came to Dayun Mountain. There is a small pond at the top of Dayun Mountain, which the local residents call Longtang. The robbery hole laid by the tomb robbers is next to Longtang.
Archaeologists have explored the robber cave and found that this robber cave is different from the general robber cave, first digging vertically for more than ten meters, and then digging in parallel, extending in the direction to the bottom of longtang. Obviously, the main burial chamber discovered by Zhao Jianxin and his gang was hidden directly below this longtang. This greatly surprised the archaeologists, and could not help but sigh at the elaborate design of the ancient anti-theft.
Judging from the scope covered by the waters of Longtang, archaeologists initially judged that the scale of this ancient tomb was not large, but after a year of archaeological exploration, the preliminary exploration results given by the archaeological team surprised everyone, and its scale was completely beyond people's imagination, it was a nearly 200-meter-long "medium" shaped tomb of princes.
Chimes in the burial chamber
At the same time, there are more than a dozen tombs of all sizes distributed throughout Dayun Mountain, all of which belong to the funerary tomb of the big tomb under Longtang. That is to say, the entire summit of Dayun Mountain was completely developed into a huge cemetery in the Han Dynasty, with a total area of 250,000 square meters, which is the size of 35 standard football fields.
There are three main tombs in the park, the first tomb of the tomb owner is under longtang, the other two main tombs are arranged left and right, and there are 11 funerary tombs and 4 funerary pits outside.
After the completion of the exploration work, after the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the rescue excavation of the Han Tomb in Dayun Mountain was officially launched. The excavation of Tomb No. 1 began first, and after anxious waiting and countless associations, nervous and excited expressions were written on the faces of every archaeologist.
Bronze deer lamp
The water of Longtang was quickly drained, and when cleaning up the silt at the bottom of the pond, some strange wooden tools were excavated, and after careful inspection by experts, it was concluded that these were tomb robbery tools left behind by tomb robbers after the Han Dynasty.
The blow to the archaeologists was bitter, and they had to face the cruel fact that the tomb had long been stolen. How many valuable artifacts are left in the tomb?
The archaeologists continued to excavate with a glimmer of hope, and as they continued to excavate, they came to a shocking conclusion: the so-called Longtang is not anti-theft, in fact, it is a large top-opening robbery hole. Those who have the ability to make this method of excavation are not ordinary tomb robbers, but official thieves. This official thief is most likely Cao Cao.
A few months later, the sealing soil of Tomb No. 1 was cleaned up, and the tomb room finally revealed the true face of Lushan, but the scene displayed in front of the archaeological team was exactly the same as previously guessed, the tomb room had been completely destroyed by ancient tomb robbers, and even the coffin lid had been moved nearly ten meters away, and many wooden structures had been crushed.
Gilded bear hub
The tomb has been hollowed out, and the mood of the archaeologists has dropped to the extreme, spending so much manpower and material resources, is it just an empty tomb in the end
At this moment, an archaeologist found an area in the southeast corner of the burial chamber that did not seem to be disturbed by anyone, which belonged to the south cloister part of the burial chamber structure. After the exploration, the archaeologists cheered, because it was full of well-preserved funerary objects, and it was two floors.
Subsequent exploration of parts of the outer cloister was carried out, and the results were even more exciting, and all of them were well preserved.
So now there is a question, why was there no tomb robbery here in the first place?
Later, a large number of bronzes, pottery, chimes, chimes, etc. were cleared out of this area, and it can be concluded that the tomb robbers at that time only needed gold and silver jewelry, and now we think that the classic artifacts were the most worthless things for them at that time.
Yugo
So who is the owner of this Western Han Tomb?
Next, in a very inconspicuous corner of the tomb, found almost and the soil into the mud of the ancient sealing mud, it is only the size of a thumb, engraved with the word "Jiangdu" two words, at the same time the tomb has been continuously unearthed with the inscription of the chronicle artifacts, the latest year is "twenty-seven years", combined with historical materials, experts judged that the owner of the tomb of Tomb No. 1 is Liu Fei, the king of Jiangdu, the son of the Han Jing Emperor.
Excavations were then carried out on two other main tombs, and through the excavations, they were confirmed by the excavations, namely Junyu Baby and Naoji.
Divide the Ding
In the burial weapon pit, a mysterious weapon- copper beryllium, was also unearthed, and its dark pattern production process was more complicated than the Yue King's Gou Jian sword, but unfortunately the process has been lost.
According to the statistics afterwards, more than 10,000 cultural relics were excavated from the Dayunshan Han Tomb Group, which became the most important discovery since the founding of Jiangsu, and also occupied a pivotal position in all the tombs found in China.