The archaeological community has always been a mixed industry, and the joy is that archaeologists can find many valuable artifacts from it, and even some cultural relics can even rewrite history.
At this time, it is not only a great joy for the archaeological community, but also many related industries can also derive value from it. However, due to the tradition of "thick burial" in ancient times, many princes and nobles would bring many funerary items after their deaths.
Some greedy tomb robbers will go to the tomb robbers, and after the "patronage" of the stolen tomb thieves, they are basically "ten rooms and nine empty", which is the place where people are sad.
Although tomb robbers will take away a lot of valuable things after looting ancient tombs, it is very likely that later archaeologists will return empty-handed.
Therefore, the most feared situation of archaeologists is that the tomb was stolen and looted by the tomb thieves. Although the tomb robbers' means of tomb robbery are not as professional as those of archaeologists, the technology they have mastered is enough to deal with the anti-theft means of most ancient tombs.
Today the author wants to introduce to you is a special case, this ancient tomb was stolen more than two thousand years ago tomb thieves targeted, tomb Chinese is not less, it can be seen that the tomb owner anti-theft means are clever, experts sigh: the ancients are deep.
First, the "scarred" ancient tomb
This ancient tomb is the tomb of Guo Zhuang Chu in Guozhuang Village, Li Township, Dalu, Henan Province, and it first appeared in front of archaeologists in 2005. Local villagers went up the mountain to cut wood, and accidentally found a hole with a diameter of about 1.2 meters, and the villagers visually estimated that the depth of the cave should be more than ten meters.
After the public security organs and the archaeological team arrived at the scene, the tomb robbers who were robbing the tombs here had already escaped, leaving only a 18-meter-deep cave, and the wailing of cultural relics seemed to come out of the mouth of the cave, which made people heartbroken.
Seeing this situation, the heart of archaeologists was half cold, and such a huge tomb robbery operation must have looted the ancient tomb.
However, after the experts carefully observed the robbery cave, they found that it did not open the burial chamber, and the experts gradually reassured.
Rescue excavations then began, but the next scene made the experts take a breath of cool air.
In the space of about fifty square meters, the experts dug up several soil layers of about six or seven meters, and they saw the sealing soil layer. However, above this sealing layer, there are more than ten pirate holes densely packed, which looks shocking.
What shocked the experts even more was that there were many robbery caves next to the soil with a dark color, which meant that the robbery cave was left many years ago.
Experts speculated that the tomb was probably looted by tomb robbers a thousand years ago, and many people came later, and the cultural relics inside may have been robbed long ago.
SECOND, the "mystery" in the tomb
After digging up the soil layer, the experts found that there was only a particularly simple burial chamber below, and there was a coffin inside, but it had long been unable to resist the destruction of time and decayed, and the entire burial chamber was unobstructed, without any superfluous things.
Just when the experts thought it was going to be fruitless, things suddenly took a turn for the better.
It turned out that the experts found that as long as this burial chamber was lightly stepped on, there would be a lot of sand, and the soil layer dug down by the experts was less than ten meters, but the 18-meter-deep robbery hole dug by the tomb robbers had no sand, indicating that there must be a mystery hidden in it.
And experts also noticed an unreasonable place, such a small size of the tomb, why have there been tomb robbers for generations?
In the end, the experts came to the conclusion that there should be another burial chamber under this small burial chamber, and the following one is the real main burial chamber.
So the experts continued to dig down, and finally a large tomb appeared in front of the experts, which made everyone overjoyed.
In the real main burial chamber, many bronzes, jade, ivory and other objects are displayed, and the number is as many as more than 2,000, which can be described as a major discovery. And not a single piece of the cultural relics in Guo Zhuang Chu's tomb is missing.
According to the records of the local county records, experts found that this ancient tomb had been excavated by tomb robbers as early as the early Eastern Han Dynasty, about 1800 years ago.
Since then, many tomb robbers of the dynasty have arrived here, but they have not gained anything.
Because of the tomb owner's "careful machine", the tomb owner piled five or six meters of sand on the real main tomb, and built a fake small burial chamber on it to confuse the tomb robbers.
Even if the tomb robber realizes that the real tomb is underneath, these sands can also "dissuade" the tomb robbers, and if there is no professional equipment, the tomb robbers are likely to die in these sand piles.
epilogue
Because of the "heart machine" of the ancient tomb designer, many tomb robbers returned empty-handed, which shows that the ancient anti-theft also had its own routine. If every valuable ancient tomb can set up effective anti-theft measures, presumably the tomb robbers will also be "unemployed".
In any case, the discovery of Guo Zhuang Chu's tomb is also a relatively significant archaeological discovery, and it is also thanks to the anti-theft measures of the ancestors, leaving many valuable cultural relics to future generations.