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One day in July 210 BC, the 50-year-old Emperor Qin Shi Huang died in the Dune Palace. Subsequently, his body was transported back to Xianyang by Zhao Gao and Hu Hai and others in a pile of rotten and smelly dead fish and rotten shrimp, and was quickly buried in the mausoleum that had not been completed for 39 years. Buried in the ground with him, in addition to the magnificent terracotta phalanx, there were his many children and concubines...
This history, which occurred more than 2,000 years ago, has been recorded and handed down in historical records. However, people today are still full of curiosity about that mysterious history: why did Hu Hai, who should not have inherited the throne, brutally kill many of his brothers and sisters after ascending to the throne, and what kind of torture did the slain princes and princesses endure before they died? All these problems were intertwined into a huge web of mystery, hanging over the Qin Tomb, the only one who witnessed that period of time.
Since the discovery of the Qinling Terracotta Warriors in 1974, the excavation and research work on the Tomb of the First Emperor has made great progress, archaeologists have found seventeen funerary tombs of the Qin Dynasty period in Shangjiao Village, which is one mile away from the Qin Tombs, and found many supplies exclusive to the Qin Dynasty royal family in these tombs.
In the eight tombs that have been excavated, experts have found seven bones of five men, two women, six of which were separated from their heads and limbs, apparently dismembered by torture, and one body was intact, but the upper and lower jawbones were misaligned, apparently hanging by ropes. Moreover, on the right temporal bone of the corpse, there is also a broken arrow inserted. So what message does this unnatural death leave us from two thousand years ago?
After examination and combined with historical records, experts determined that the owners of these seventeen tombs were the princes and princesses of the Qin Dynasty who were brutally killed by Hu Hai. According to the historical records, after Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, in order to maintain the throne he had obtained by usurping power, under the influence of Zhao Gaoren, he not only committed suicide by Fu Su, the most threatening of false edicts, but also killed his twelve brothers in Xianyang and his ten sisters in Du County. To die is to abandon the city, and to die is to dismember a person to death. The tragic appearance of the princes and princesses at the time of their deaths coincided with the situation of the owners of the tombs.
This archaeological excavation not only unveiled the true face of the legendary history, but also brought people an unexpected surprise - Northwest University used computer craniofacial restoration technology to reproduce the appearance of one of the Qin Dynasty princes, so what did this Qin Dynasty prince look like? Welcome to follow Shi Buyu. We will continue to present you with this wonderful history tomorrow.