In ancient times, the ancients always felt that there would be another way to exist after death, so the ancient emperors would always put a large number of burial items into their ancient tombs, and the scale of the tomb was like an underground palace, such as the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin.
However, these precious burial items will inevitably be remembered by tomb robbers, so the ancients set up a variety of organs in the ancient tomb, and made great efforts in the structure of anti-theft. However, it is still impossible to prevent some sophisticated tomb robbers. The so-called "ten tombs and nine empty spaces", many ancient tombs are still difficult to escape this disaster.
But the ancient tomb to be talked about today can be said to be a wonderful ancient tomb in the Warring States period, for thousands of years, the treasures in the ancient tomb have not been lost, but the bodies of 30 tomb robbers have been left. Why do so many tomb robbers die in ancient tombs? What's so amazing about this tomb? Let's take a look.
In the early 1990s, in a village in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, a farmer dug out an old brick from the soil while repairing the wall of his home, and the farmer thought it should be an ancient square brick after a closer look. In addition, Shaanxi is a treasure land with a long history, so the old farmers reported the matter to the relevant departments.
Archaeologists saw the square bricks brought by the old farmer and thought that there was probably an ancient tomb under the buried square bricks. Soon, archaeologists arrived at the farmer's home and began excavations in the area where the square bricks were found. In the process of excavation, archaeologists are mentally prepared, because most of the tombs are likely to have been destroyed by tomb robbers.
Sure enough, when archaeologists dug up the tomb, they found that there were indeed traces of theft, and the damage was very serious, at least fifteen robbery holes. With so many pirate caves, it is conceivable that this ancient tomb must have lost a lot of treasures. Then, archaeologists continued to clean and excavate, at which time nine remains appeared from the fine sand of the tomb.
According to the scale of the tomb, archaeologists concluded that this ancient tomb was from the Warring States period, and judging from the large amount of fine sand in the tomb, it should be a quicksand tomb. What is a Quicksand Tomb? It is a kind of "anti-theft skill" in the ancient tomb, which fills the tomb with a large amount of fine sand and fills the tomb passage and burial chamber, although it looks simple, it is a unique invention of the ancients.
In ancient tombs filled with fine sand, as soon as the tomb robbers enter, even if they are sophisticated, they will be trapped by quicksand. If the tomb robbers keep breaking free, not only will they not get out of the fine sand, but they will sink deeper, so that the tomb robbers will have no entry or exit.
Fortunately, modern technology can clear these quicksand, and archaeologists have used large machinery to remove the quicksand from the tomb. After the quicksand was removed, the bodies appeared, adding up to 30, and 30 were the bodies of tomb robbers.
When archaeologists opened the burial chamber, thousands of precious treasures were unearthed, including bronzes, jade, silks, and shengding. None of these treasures have been lost and are intact. The owner of the tomb uses this "anti-theft skill" of quicksand to avoid the destruction of the ancient tomb for thousands of years.
After examining the coffin of the owner of the tomb, archaeologists deduced that the thousand-year-old tomb should belong to a prince and nobleman of the Cai Kingdom during the Warring States period. I have to say that this simple form, but a very effective quicksand stunt, so that the ancient tomb has experienced a thousand years of a treasure has not been lost, but let the tomb robbers suffer. The anti-theft technology of the ancients is really amazing.