But when we talk about the imperial tombs, we must think of the palatial and rich funerary products, such as the First Emperor's Mausoleum in our impression, or the Qianling tomb of Wu Zetian, each of which is magnificent and grand in scale.
In 2013, at a construction site in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, a local construction team discovered an ancient tomb, and local archaeologists heard about it and carried out a protective excavation of the tomb.
This ancient tomb area is very small, just like ordinary scholars, and after the experts entered the tomb, the funerary goods inside were also few and pitiful, only some pottery and lacquerware, and even few bronzes.
The expert opened the coffin of the tomb owner and found that there was a skeleton lying inside, the remains were relatively small, about one meter and five meters, and the expert found a broken coffin on the other side of the burial chamber, and only two teeth were found inside.
This made the expert quite curious, did the tomb owner offend someone before he died, let others dig the grave and dissect the body, with this doubt, the expert continued to excavate the ancient tomb, and the expert who had previously cleaned up another body had made new discoveries.
Next to the remains, there was a black thing, which looked very inconspicuous, but when the experts removed his stains, they found that it was a phoenix crown, and the experts were stunned at once.
In the end, through reading the history books and some records of funerary items in the tomb, the expert finally found the owner of the tomb, the complete remains of this body of about one meter and five meters, which belonged to Empress Xiao, and the two teeth were likely to be the Sui Emperor Yang Guang's.
This ancient tomb, which looks tattered and has very poor funerary products, is the emperor's mausoleum of the Sui Dynasty, and why the Sui Emperor did not even leave the remains, only two teeth were left, and the experts did not have any good explanation.