We all know that tomb robbers are very hateful, they will not only steal the precious cultural relics in the tomb, but also have many tomb robbers, there is no professional ethics at all, they will also wantonly destroy the tomb, bringing great trouble to the archaeological work.
In fact, this ancient tomb is an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty, and finally experts also found two epitaphs in the tomb, and this is still a husband and wife burial tomb, the epitaph reads, "Tang Ancient Youzhou, Lu Long Jiedushi, Liu Cemetery Epitaph". In fact, this tomb is the joint burial tomb of Liu Ji and his wife of the Tang Dynasty Jiedushi, and the name of the village here is not the imperial tomb of the Tartars, but the tomb of the Tang Dynasty Jiedushi.
It is such a simple Tang Dynasty tomb that makes experts doubt their own professionalism and experience, what is going on here?
As the capital of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, Beijing was also the political and economic center of the time, and there were many dignitaries living in the capital. So the underground tombs in Beijing are also very many, in china, many ancient capitals in the development, will encounter the same problem, many cities need to build subways, however, for these ancient capital cities, the construction of subways is a very difficult thing, because the underground tombs and cultural relics are too much, a careless will be dug up, no matter how you plan, want to avoid a word "difficult".
Many ancient tombs have brought great trouble to the construction of subways, so ancient capitals will carry out archaeological exploration of the entire subway line before building subways.
At that time, a new subway line was being built, and on the line that this subway line passed, there was a village called Tomb Village, which coincided with the newly built subway line, so archaeologists came here to conduct archaeological exploration. Why did the archaeological team have to come here?
Because there has always been a legend in the village here, "there is an ancient tomb in the village, and the people in this village are tomb keepers" The legend has also been confirmed by the people in the village. Curiously, the people in the village did not know who they were guarding the tomb for, only the tomb of a Tartar emperor.
These are all passed down by word of mouth by ancestors, and have passed on to many generations of people, so after passing them here, they only know that their ancestors are tomb keepers, and the people in their village are the descendants of the spirit keepers, and the tomb they guard is still the tomb of the emperor, and the rest is unknown.
Experts also learned after consulting the data that there was an emperor during the Jin Dynasty, indeed not buried in their ancestral tomb, this emperor is the complete Yan Yong, the villagers said Tarzi, refers to the ancient northern ethnic minorities, the Jin Dynasty is the Jurchen clan of the complete Yan Akuta was established, in the end of the Yan Yong period only moved to Beijing, from this point of view, this legend and historical materials are not standard echo, it is also this point of view that makes the experts have a preconceived judgment.
Archaeologists came to this village for archaeological exploration, and there is nothing wrong with it. After exploration, the archaeological team found that there is indeed a very large mausoleum here, but in the excavation process of this ancient tomb, experts have felt a lot of doubts, and there are many traces left by tomb robbers in this ancient tomb, which almost mislead the judgment of archaeologists.
When the archaeological team dug up the upper sealing soil, it found that there were many holes of different sizes hidden under the sealing layer, at this time archaeologists already knew that this tomb had been excavated many times, and the treasure inside may no longer exist.
But they still have to excavate, in fact, archaeologists excavate ancient tombs and tomb robbers are also very similar, are directly aimed at the main burial chamber of the place for excavation, after the sealing excavation, experts not only found the robbery hole, but also found a lot of stone carvings in the sealing layer, these stone carvings are actually the buildings above the tomb, just like Qianling, there will be a lot of buildings above the tomb, I don't know what reason experts ignored this.
Soon, the sealing soil of the tomb was cleaned up by experts, followed by the cleaning of the main burial chamber. After the main burial chamber was cleared out, experts found that this was a very large ancient tomb, and indeed the scale of the imperial tomb. But at this time, the experts did not fully believe the villagers' words, although it was the scale of the imperial tomb, but the experts also needed to further determine the specific age of the ancient tomb, and the identity of the owner of the tomb. However, experts did not think about this ancient tomb in the Tang Dynasty at that time, and they were still excavating according to the tombs of the Jin Dynasty.
Of course, in the early investigation process, experts have found some stone statues in the terroir layer of the tomb, in fact, from the carving and construction of these stone statues, it can be preliminarily seen that this ancient tomb is the style of the Tang Dynasty tomb, but I don't know why, the expert did not realize this problem at that time, it is likely to be preconceived, after all, the expert after listening to the introduction of the villagers, in their subconscious, has taken this ancient tomb as the ancient tomb of the Jin Dynasty.
After the burial chamber was cleaned up, the experts also found that the situation inside was basically the same as their speculation, the tomb was empty, there were no valuable cultural relics, even the coffin of the tomb owner was missing, leaving only a stone platform for the coffin.
Even if this is the case, experts still will not be dead hearted, to put it bluntly, they also want to pick up a leak, they feel that even if it is this ancient tomb, many times stolen tomb thieves patronize, but the tomb robbers will not necessarily take everything away is not, said that it is not good to leave something.
In fact, this idea soon disappointed everyone, because the entire main burial chamber was still found after being cleaned up several times. At this time, the experts thought that maybe something would be found in the cemetery, and only then did they start to clean the cemetery, would they find something in the cemetery? Not to mention that they really found a lot of clues in the cemetery.
Experts first found a Jomon brick at the entrance of the tomb, what is this Jomon brick for? What's so special about it? This jomon brick is actually the tomb brick used to block the tomb door in many ancient tombs in the Tang Dynasty. But in the whole cemetery, experts have only found this one tomb brick, which is obviously a good thing done by tomb robbers, and the tomb robbers have emptied the tomb bricks for money, leaving only this one piece? Or is it that this was actually brought in by tomb robbers, not a tomb item at all? Do you know that this is the ancient tomb of the Jin Dynasty?
Until this time, experts still think that this is the tomb of the Jin Dynasty, alas, I don't know what to say, of course, some people began to doubt the age of this tomb, but they are still in doubt.
When the experts found the Tang Dynasty murals in the tomb passage, they suddenly realized that they were wrong at the beginning, and this ancient tomb is likely to be from the Tang Dynasty, not the Tartar tomb that the villagers say. Combined with the stone statues found by experts in the early stages, these are actually all tomb styles of the Tang Dynasty.
After figuring it out, the experts once again carried out a comprehensive clean inspection of the burial chamber. Experts found that the walls of the tomb and the bottom of the stone platform where the coffin was placed were carved with peony patterns, although these peony patterns were very simple to carve, but in the ancient tombs, as long as the peony pattern appeared, it could basically prove that these were the ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty. Experts also deduce that the reason why these peony patterns are relatively simple and rough is likely to be that the owner of the tomb was in a hurry to bury it at that time, and the tomb was not really built. But then something was discovered that made the experts ponder again.
What is this thing? It is the "Dading Tongbao" copper coin, which was minted during the Yan Yong period of the Jin Dynasty. This is really too strange, there are no cultural relics in the tomb, but found a copper coin, this copper coin is still cast in the period of Yan Yong, generally speaking, the funerary products in the tomb are more important things before the tomb owner lived, and the time of the emperor at that time was very short, and the coins he minted were not much. Thinking of this, the experts are confused again.
Don't know what these experts are always confused about? In fact, at this time, let's not say anything else, I am a little skeptical of the expertise of experts, like these archaeologists, let's not say that from these cultural relics to judge the age of the tomb, from other places they can not judge the age of the tomb? This is really a bit unreasonable.
To put it simply, this ancient tomb has been excavated many times, and the things left in the tomb are not necessarily the owner of the tomb, it may also be left by tomb robbers? Especially copper coins, many tomb robbers, after they finish the tomb, in order to seek peace of mind, they will leave a copper coin when they leave, which is an unwritten rule among many tomb robbers, and many tomb robbers do this. Just such a simple thing, let a copper coin to do, have begun to doubt their own professional.
Even this is a husband and wife burial tomb, or only after the excavation of the epitaph, do not want to say more, cultural relics are really not found, the stones to a lot, then again, the copper coin left by the tomb robber, the value should not be low, right?