First of all, we must know a concept, archaeology is a concept that exists in modern times, as a department for the protection of cultural relics, it is only a few decades, and tomb robbery has a history of thousands of years.
Since China dug up the tomb of the Wanli Emperor and caused great losses, it has clearly stipulated that it is not allowed to take the initiative to excavate ancient tombs, mainly with weak security.
Tomb robbers for the sake of desire and interests, desperate to take risks, coupled with the inheritance of craftsmanship for thousands of years, the technology is actually very skilled, which also caused a large number of ancient tombs to be stolen and excavated.
The national archaeological team can only follow the tomb robbers with rescue protection, which is very passive.
Friends who have seen the news of the excavation site of the ancient tomb will always be angry about the theft and excavation of the ancient tomb, but there will be a little doubt: why are our archaeologists less efficient than the tomb robbers?
Technical skills
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the archaeologists came from, and everyone must know where they came from, and I don't need to say more. But why, after so many years, these "leaders" who have entered the archaeological team are not as good as the folk tomb robbery team?
But technically, the tomb robbery team often organizes a special team to consult the classics and look for clues from historical records and feng shui terrain.
Desire and war are the driving force behind technological progress, tomb robbers can dig a large ancient tomb can get tens of millions of income, the wealth is moving, and its "work enthusiasm" naturally need not be said.
Race against time to dig ancient tombs, time is money. Over the decades, the gap has widened.
The most superficial thing: equipment
It is no exaggeration to say that a tomb robber's flashlight is enough to buy all the equipment of an archaeological team! In order to have better conditions for excavating ancient tombs, tomb robbers will prepare many tools for themselves.
Stealing an ancient tomb can bring tens of millions of huge profits, and it is natural to buy equipment and facilities without any pain. It is rumored that the price of a well-known tomb robber flashlight exceeds 50,000 yuan.
In contrast, the archaeological team has hardly changed in decades. Grave robbers still need to use "high-tech means", but what about the archaeological team?
The most fundamental thing: desire
The archaeological team takes the salary, and the tomb robber gang plays with life. Ill-gotten gains come and go quickly, such as Yao Laosan, a great thief in the northeast, who has lost more than half a billion worth of cultural relics in gambling in the past thirty years, and in order to maintain the existing standard of living, he must expand his team and dig more ancient tombs.
The archaeological team may be very concerned about ancient tombs, but there is no tomb robbery gang that uses tomb robbery as a means of making a living - digging more and digging less, and the salary is there.
Tools are not as good as people, technology is not as good as people, even the source power is inferior, how can the archaeological team "one step faster"?
For now, don't underestimate archaeologists, who don't necessarily discover tombs before archaeologists.
Without statistics, archaeologists now find more tombs than tomb robbers, but many of the excavated tombs cannot be reported by mass media.
For example, most of the tombs in the Neolithic era were found by archaeologists, because most of them were small tombs, and there was generally no burial tools without sealing soil, and it was extremely difficult for tomb robbers to find by looking at the sealed soil or the general Luoyang shovel drilling.
The number of grave robbers is large, far more than archaeologists. In remote rural areas, ancient tombs are sometimes discovered while farming, and it is possible to become tomb robbers.
In addition, there are a large number of people who use this as a profession. Coupled with some systems that are very puzzling, the current antique market is very hot.
In the face of realistic interests, even if many people accidentally get a cultural relic, the first reaction is definitely not to hand it over, but to sell it! This has caused the loss and destruction of many precious cultural relics, resulting in irreparable losses!
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