The Tang Dynasty is the most influential dynasty in history, the Tang Dynasty in ancient China is the most powerful country in the world, its influence can still be seen to this day, after the Tang Dynasty many countries called Chinese "Tang people". At that time, the Tang Dynasty had the treatment of all countries coming to the dynasty, so the Tang Dynasty was also a very luxurious era. China's ancient period began to have a tradition of thick burial, so many tombs in the Tang Dynasty are very luxurious, and the tombs of ordinary people have many precious items, not to mention the imperial tombs. At the top of Baiyun Peak in Yanshi City, Henan, there is the mausoleum of Li Hong, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, which has always been known as the "Prince Tomb". In 1998, tomb robbers invaded, and the losses were very serious.
The cemetery keeper noticed something strange while patrolling, so he immediately informed the relevant experts, and by the time these experts arrived, the relics of the Prince Tomb had already appeared on the market. The experts immediately launched a hunt and quickly found clues through the antiquities dealers. Zhang Shaoxia and a large number of other people were captured, this tomb robbery gang a total of 11 people, they are very cautious, the tomb robbery activities carried out a series of sophisticated plans, if not the administrator found out in time, they may have run away at this time. The police seized 3.66 million yuan of stolen money and recovered many cultural relics that had not yet been sold.
Through the confession of the criminal suspects, the police recovered a lot of national treasure-level cultural relics, there are 19 national first-class cultural relics, more than 30 second-class cultural relics, and there are many precious cultural relics from the Tang Dynasty, such as Tang Sancai of the Tang Dynasty, just one Tang Sancai, which can be sold for more than 10 million yuan on the black market. Fortunately, these tomb robbers did not have enough time to sell these artifacts, otherwise they may not be recovered. When these grave robbers were caught, they also said: Why can experts dig graves? Until the arrival of these tomb robbers, archaeologists had never excavated the tomb, even when they found the tomb of the Prince.
Since the incident of the Ming Dynasty Dingling Tombs, China has strict regulations that do not allow the active excavation of ancient tombs. Therefore, the archaeological actions of archaeologists are all rescue excavations. Some mausoleums will be destroyed due to disrepair, cultural relics flow out, archaeologists will dig up such mausoleums, in order to let the cultural relics in the tomb can be a good preservation, if you can get useful historical materials in the tomb is also very good. There are also some tombs that have been damaged by tomb robbers, even if the tomb robbers invaded the tomb, archaeologists will still enter the mausoleum for investigation, an ancient tomb is not only valuable cultural relics, the form of the tomb, the structure of the tomb are valuable research objects.
Archaeologists and tomb robbers have different purposes, and the crown prince tomb was well preserved when it was discovered, so archaeologists hired security personnel to come and inspect from time to time. What is surprising is that even if there are security personnel patrolling, they cannot stop the greed of tomb robbers. In order to enter the Prince's Tomb, Zhang Shaoxia and 11 other criminal suspects repeatedly came to the Prince's Tomb to carry out explosive excavations during the off-duty period of security personnel, but they were very cautious, and once they passed this time, they immediately fled the scene and waited until the next day to check whether they could enter the tomb. There was also a tomb robbery case in Dayun Mountain, Jiangsu Province, and this group of tomb robbers was not as cautious as Zhang Shaoxia and others.
The Tomb of DayunShan Han was bombarded with explosives by 4 tomb robbers, but because they did not detect the tomb robbery environment and were eager to enter the tomb to steal, all 4 tomb robbers were buried in the cemetery. Because of these tomb robbers, experts found the tomb of Liu Fei, the king of Jiangdu, and many very precious cultural relics have reappeared, such as Liu Fei's golden jade clothes. This golden jade coat is the most complete piece unearthed so far, and the value of cultural relics is very high. Tomb robbers can not be prevented, but after this incident, the security work of China's ancient tombs has been further improved, and the known unexhumed tombs have been excellently protected.