It is true that many people do not understand why the tombs of the ancients are excavated, and many people do not understand archaeologists, thinking that they are no different from tomb robbers, nothing more than the difference between illegal and legal, in fact, the difference is really big.
It should be known that the purpose of tomb robbers to excavate ancient tombs is to steal the cultural relics in the tomb, and then take them to sell to satisfy private interests, which will lead to the loss of many cultural relics to overseas; and archaeologists are different, the state clearly stipulates that the archaeological team can not take the initiative to excavate the royal tomb, unless it is the possibility of the tomb being stolen or facing destruction, otherwise it is not allowed to take the initiative to excavate.
Moreover, the archaeological team excavated the ancient tomb to better protect it, and the value of the cultural relics is even greater, which can reveal a lot of little-known history for us.
But the ancients are not fools, how can people not know that after their death, there will be people who will worry about their treasures, especially bureaucrats, rich and noble families, for this reason they will set up anti-theft tomb organs in the tomb, such as the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin, there is such an organ, of which mercury makes countless people prohibitive, of course, in addition, there must be many organs that everyone does not know.
In the 1950s, the Nanjing Bureau of Cultural Relics found two large-scale tombs, which can be called magnificent, and the funerary products are even more eye-catching, but unfortunately, this tomb has been invaded by tomb thieves, and the damage is very serious.
It was near the Dongshan Bridge in Jiangning County, Nanjing, when the archaeological team saw that there was a small dirt bag with a height of 12 meters, to know that here is a plain, so this small dirt bag is particularly abrupt, and the clear-eyed people will actually know at a glance that there is definitely a famous place under this small dirt bag.
Fortunately, several archaeologists at that time were very experienced people, they believed that there must be an ancient tomb below, so they immediately began to investigate, and the results confirmed that the tomb was under the small dirt bag, but unfortunately, traces of theft were found, which was simply infuriating!
After preliminary judgment, this tomb should be from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the tomb specifications are still very large, it is estimated that the identity of the tomb owner will definitely not be very low, and then after approval, the Nanjing archaeological team began to excavate; but did not expect that the anti-theft measures of this tomb were too bullish, and actually did not give the archaeological team a little chance.
Fortunately, at this time, archaeologists found a robbery cave, and the archaeological team had no choice but to enter the tomb along this robbery hole, and after entering the tomb, the archaeological team was stunned, because the tomb was too luxurious.
At that time, a lot of cultural relics were still cleared out, among which this set of cultural relics was the most "anti-heaven", that is, the later "Southern Tang Jade Lamentation Book". What made archaeologists angry was that this set of "Southern Tang Jade Lamentations" was so badly damaged that it was already incomplete.
In fact, the "Southern Tang Jade Lamentation Book" is engraved with the text of mourning the emperor, and the whole is made of Hetian Qingyu, which is undoubtedly the most precious cultural relics among all the funerary products.
By the way, this tomb is the famous Qin Tomb, which is the mausoleum of Li Fu, the ancestor of the Southern Tang Dynasty.