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Archaeology found that the Liao Dynasty husband and wife burial tomb, experts are incredible: it is the uncle and the 18-year-old niece?

Since Qin Shi Huang unified the world, our country has officially entered the feudal period, and there have been so many dynasties in the middle, we can better understand

The method of history may be understood from the calligraphy and paintings, documents and other cultural relics left by the ancients, but in each change of dynasties, there is always a war, let us know only the skin, and now there are still many unsolved mysteries, so the state has also set up a cultural relics department, so that archaeologists can carry out rescue excavations of ancient tombs, let more people understand history under the condition of protecting ancient tombs, and can also increase their fame after major discoveries.

Archaeology found that the Liao Dynasty husband and wife burial tomb, experts are incredible: it is the uncle and the 18-year-old niece?

But it is not to say that the excavation of ancient tombs will not destroy the cultural relics inside, there is always a certain risk, everything is pros and cons, just like before Mr. Guo Moruo excavated the Ming Shenzong Huangling, many of the cultural relics inside have just been excavated because of carbonization has been seriously damaged, such as the most valuable "Wanli Dragon Robe". Therefore, when experts excavate ancient tombs, most of them will go as a last resort, the first is not to let tomb robbers destroy, and the second is to fill the gap in history and let people know more about the living conditions and meaningful historical events at that time.

Archaeology found that the Liao Dynasty husband and wife burial tomb, experts are incredible: it is the uncle and the 18-year-old niece?

In 1986, Inner Mongolia archaeologists found a husband and wife burial tomb in the reservoir, this kind of joint burial tomb is very much, basically in archaeology are often found, but usually the joint burial tomb husband and wife are separated, but this time the joint burial tomb was actually tightly hugged together, in a tomb, archaeologists said that when the tomb was first opened, let the people present are very moved, after all, the past 1100 years, they still hug each other again, this is the love of a thousand years, How can it not be touching.

Archaeology found that the Liao Dynasty husband and wife burial tomb, experts are incredible: it is the uncle and the 18-year-old niece?

Everyone knows that in ancient times, three wives and four concubines were normal, so why did these two people love each other so much at that time? After death, they must be buried in a tomb, which is also curious about their identity, maybe they can pass on this love story, so that more people are admired for this love, but this purpose cannot be achieved, their feelings are doomed to be incomprehensible, mainly because the identity is too special.

Archaeology found that the Liao Dynasty husband and wife burial tomb, experts are incredible: it is the uncle and the 18-year-old niece?

Why? It can be seen from the excavated cultural relics that thousands of cultural relics, most of which are gold, silver and jade and other jewelry, so it can also be seen that this tomb was built for this woman at the beginning, but after passing the bone test, experts found that this woman's age is not large, about 18 years old, and through the document "Epitaph of Princess Chen Guo" in the tomb, it can be known that the identity of this woman is the "Princess Chen Guo" of the Liao Dynasty.

Archaeology found that the Liao Dynasty husband and wife burial tomb, experts are incredible: it is the uncle and the 18-year-old niece?

Finally, it is true that the expert's conjecture is right, she is 18 years old, so the expert is very confused, and so small, and the status of the ancient woman is low, but this tomb is very luxurious and solemn, and finally solved the mystery, she was very favored at the time, and also after death was named "Princess Chen Guo", not only that, there are many titles before she died, and her husband's identity is even more surprising to the experts, because they found that this husband was actually the woman's uncle.

Archaeology found that the Liao Dynasty husband and wife burial tomb, experts are incredible: it is the uncle and the 18-year-old niece?

Expert: Is this uncle and niece? But she is only 18 years old, these two people are close relatives married, although it is said that close relatives marriage is a very common thing in ancient times, but from a scientific point of view and ethics, this kind of behavior is unacceptable, but in ancient times, in order to kiss and kiss, maintain various relationships, so that many women have become the funerary products of close relatives, and the marriage of close relatives can also make the blood more pure.

So why can these two people be buried in a tomb? In fact, it is a coincidence, because when she was 18 years old, she died of illness, and her uncle followed her not long after she left, so the two people were buried together, so many cultural relics in this tomb were prepared for the princess, which also opened the eyes of the archaeology community and filled the historical understanding of the Liao Dynasty royal family.

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