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Why would an ancient tomb cause more than 80 tomb robbers to die tragically? What secrets are hidden in the tomb? Why do grave robbers scatter their souls at the mention of it? Why did these people die here?
Yin and yang mistakenly dug out ancient tombs
Speaking of the discovery of this tomb, but also thanks to the expansion of a small area in Hubei, the construction process dug out a stone stele, on which is engraved with ancient texts that everyone can't understand, experienced workers immediately realized that 80% of them were dug into the ancient tomb.
Then the matter was immediately reported to the relevant local departments, archaeologists rushed to the scene for the first time, without waiting for a closer look, archaeologists have determined that the underground is an ancient tomb.
Even so, the excavation work began non-stop, and after the exploration of archaeologists, it was determined that this was a tomb from the Five Dynasties period, and the specifications of the tomb were still very high.
Archaeologists found that around this tomb, there are no less than 200 large and small robbery holes, so that even if the scale of the tomb is very large and has been stolen so many times, can there be something valuable left?
Why does a tomb have more than 200 burglary holes?
At the same time, everyone is also very curious, what kind of tomb is this, which can attract the favor of so many tomb robbers? Of course, these problems will remain a mystery until the archaeological work is completed.
Perhaps everyone is eager to reveal the mystery of this tomb, so the excavation of it is relatively fast, and in the blink of an eye, it is excavated to the location of the burial chamber.
But it was also at this time that something that shocked all the archaeologists happened, what did they see? Let's move on.
What kind of rare treasures are there in the tomb that will cause the tomb robbers to punch more than 200 robbery holes back and forth? Is such a burial chamber already left with a "shell"?
After the overtime of the archaeologists, they finally came to the location of the tomb, but at the end of the burial chamber where the coffin (guǒ) should have been placed, a cliff about 7 meters deep appeared.
Dangerous quicksand tombs
If you do not pay attention in the process of excavation, you will fall directly, and the young team members who have not experienced the "big wind and waves" have already frightened their legs and are weak.
However, experienced archaeologists have seen that this is a quicksand tomb, the so-called quicksand tomb is also called a sand tomb, which is an ancient Chinese sand filling technique used to cover the tomb in order to prevent theft.
"Sand filling skills" refers to the filling of fine sand around the tomb passage and the burial chamber, this method is not difficult, this is also our Chinese unique invention.
What many people don't know is that this method is based on the psychology of many tomb robbers to design a coping strategy, the most important reason why tomb robbers can successfully enter the tomb overnight or within a few days is to "punch holes".
According to the records, the robbery cave before the Tang Dynasty was round, and after the Tang Dynasty, it became square, which has also become the "touchstone" for archaeologists to firmly grasp the era of tomb robbery.
Why did the grave robbers die tragically?
The reason for this difference is that the burial chambers before the Tang Dynasty, mostly vertical tombs, are basically in the mountain bag or flat ground, directly digging a large pit downwards, and then putting a coffin in the pit, experts are based on these conclusions that this is a quicksand tomb.
Throughout the ages, countless grave robbers have died tragically in tombs in this structure, and sure enough, the subsequent archaeological work is almost the same as what experts think.
Because they found a lot of dried bones in the tomb, and judging from the wearing of these bones, there were more in the Song and Ming dynasties, and there were also a small number of Qing Dynasty costumes, so they were not funeral personnel, but tomb robbers.
So the question is, how did so many people die? And why do everyone die almost the same way? Let's move on.
Why are there dozens of corpses in the burial chamber, which is known as the first murderous tomb in China? Where do these people come from? Why do they die in the same place one after another?
As we mentioned earlier, this is a quicksand tomb, and the person who invented the quicksand tomb at that time seized some of the characteristics of the tomb and filled the sand around the tomb or the tomb, as little as a few tons, as much as tens of tons or even hundreds of tons.
This also makes it so that if the tomb robber wants to enter the tomb, he has to deal with the sand filling, in other words, he can only "dig the sand" out little by little, so that the tomb robber will choose to give up.
Of course, there are also some quicksand tombs that are "easy to get in and difficult to go out", because the nature of some sand needs to be loosened after a period of time, and the gaps are sealed.
Many tomb robbers tend to ignore this sand when they are digging the cave, and when they enter the tomb, the sand will block the hole with the depression, so that the air in the closed burial chamber will become thinner and thinner, and finally the tomb robber will die due to lack of oxygen.
So they all died of pain and despair in breathing difficulties, and the natural method of death and the posture after death are mostly the same, but from another point of view, these tomb robbers failed to bring the treasure out of the burial chamber, which is of great significance to our archaeological research today.
Similarly, this also makes many cultural relics exempt from centuries of secular persecution, although hundreds of robbery holes have been found around this tomb, and many tomb robbers' bodies have been found in the tomb, but the cultural relics in the tomb have basically not been damaged, which is really a blessing in misfortune, what do you think about this?