In ancient China, after death, people would find ways to put some funerary products in the tomb. Because at that time, people felt that in this way, they could continue to enjoy these funerary goods after death. Especially for the ancient dignitaries, this has even become a matter of arrangement before their deaths.
It is precisely because of this that our current archaeology profession has the possibility and necessity to emerge and develop, after all, these funerary objects in the tombs of the ancients are of great significance to our study of the situation in their time. Today we want to introduce the content to you, it is related to the funerary products - a 4-square-meter small tomb in Shaanxi, unearthed treasures worth more than 3 billion, who is buried? Friends who are interested in this topic may wish to take a look at it!
1. The situation of the tomb at the time of the world.
The small tomb of only 4 square meters was discovered one day in the mid-1990s of the last century, and the people who found it were several villagers where the small tomb was located. It is said that the villagers had planned to dig up a large tree and use it for other purposes. In the process of digging trees, they accidentally found several strangely shaped bricks. Because they saw that the bricks did not look like modern things, they quickly called the local antiquities bureau to check it out. After preliminary identification, the staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau believed that there should be a tomb of more archaeological value under the tree. In order to avoid causing relatively large damage to the tomb during the excavation process, the staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau hastily organized a professional team to carry out excavation work.
Second, after the small tomb appeared, it brought a great sense of disappointment.
Originally, the staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau believed that even if this tomb was small, it should be able to excavate more valuable funerary items. In this way, it will be of great help to them in studying the situation of the owner of the tomb and the historical era in which they are located. But in fact, after the staff completely let the small tomb appear, they found that the small tomb was not only far smaller than they thought, but also there was no funerary product in the tomb that seemed to be very valuable. As a result, the staff involved in the excavation of the tomb were very disappointed, and even the local villagers who came to watch were a little sad.
Third, the coffin was surprised by the unexpected.
Under normal circumstances, archaeologists have to treat and study the coffins in the tombs after sorting out the tombs. However, after seeing the situation in the tomb, the staff involved in the excavation of the small tomb did not have any hope for the situation inside the coffin. Because the ancient tombs they have seen in the past, if they are really the tombs of big people with special identities, then in the tombs alone, there will be many funerary items. Of course, the funerary items in the coffin are more and more valuable. However, in order to act in accordance with the regulations, the staff also took the handling and study of the coffins in the small tomb very carefully. To their surprise, they found two rare treasures in the coffin.
Fourth, the value of the two treasures that appeared in the small tomb.
Two rare treasures appeared in the small tomb, one was a material vessel, and the other was a gold-handled iron sword. The so-called feeder here is actually a kind of lead barium glass. Maybe in this way, everyone will feel that it is not a rare treasure. But in fact, the age of this small tomb can be determined to be the Western Han Dynasty, and at that time, it was not an easy thing to make something like glass. Therefore, it is obviously a rare treasure. As for the gold-handled iron sword, the really more valuable part at that time was actually the iron body, rather than the golden hilt. Because the iron smelting technology was not very mature at that time, and the metallurgical technology was already relatively mature at that time. And if you have to estimate the value of these two rare treasures, they are completely worth 3 billion.
Fifth, the identity of the owner of the small tomb.
After figuring out the value of the funerary items, the experts also identified the owner of the tomb. It turned out that these two rare treasures did not originally belong to the owner of this tomb, but originated from the Qin Gong Tomb. Because the Tomb of Qin Gong has been stolen many times, experts believe that the owner of this small tomb should have been a tomb robber before he died. Otherwise, these two rare treasures that should have stayed in the Qin Gong Tomb could not have appeared in such a simple tomb.
Although the identity of the owner of the tomb was revealed, many people were very disappointed. After all, everyone originally thought that the tomb of some big man had been found, but they did not expect that it was just the tomb of a tomb robber. Fortunately, two rare treasures were found from the coffin of the owner of the tomb this time, otherwise, it is estimated that the personnel involved in the excavation work will really return in vain.