Schematic diagram of the tomb robbery
After the death of the ancient emperor, a large number of funerary items will be put in the mausoleum, including jadeite, agate, gold and silver bronze and ceramics and other treasures, so it also attracts the attention of tomb robbers, almost rarely the tombs of ancient Chinese emperors have not been stolen by tomb thieves, but many experts have found that tomb robbers will steal gold and silver treasures in the tomb, but among them, jade and copper coins 2 items, but few tomb robbers steal, the reason is actually very knowledgeable.
Modern people rely on archaeology to understand history, but there have been many tomb robbers in the past, in order to steal the treasure in the tomb, wanton destruction of the mausoleum, resulting in the disappearance of many ancient cultural relics, many ancient tombs have also lost archaeological value, so that history has left a lot of unsolved mysteries, many archaeologists have also found that the gold or jewelry in the ancient tomb is often stolen, only jade and copper coins, but often stolen tomb thieves left.
Schematic diagram of the golden jade coat
The tombs of the princes of the Han Dynasty were stolen, but the tomb robbers did not steal the funeral funeral clothes worth billions of dollars, "golden jade clothes", only the gold wire on the jade clothes, in addition, the pure gold dragon in the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty was stolen, and as many as 10 tons of copper coins inside were still left in place. It is said that the ancient people were quite superstitious, and the jade that was buried with the dead was also called "blood jade", which was made by sucking the blood of people, which was quite an obscure cultural relic for tomb robbers.
Blood Jade Schematic
In addition, the copper coin is the money for the deceased to pass through the underworld, if it is taken, the owner of the tomb can not reach the underworld, he will seek revenge on the thief, but these are only legends. It can be further found that the jade that has not been stolen is a royal landmark artifact, even if it is successfully stolen, when it is sold on the market, it is easy to find out from the royal tomb, and the punishment for tomb robbers in the past is extremely harsh, and the tomb robbers may be killed.
Schematic diagram of copper coins
In addition, the copper coins buried with the tomb generally use the copper coins of the burial period of the tomb owner, so when they are stolen by later generations, they may have been changed, so the copper coins have no use value, and the number of copper coins is huge, basically it is not valuable, and the copper coins are difficult to realize, so the tomb robbers will not waste time and effort to steal.
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