Is archaeology related to tomb robbery? On the Internet some people say that archaeology is another kind of official tomb robbery, if you really understand some archaeological work, then you may not say such ignorant words, some time ago one of the biggest news may be that the location of the Han Wen Emperor's tomb was determined, as a lover of traditional culture, we also very much hope to understand what kind of tomb the real Baling is, because so far we have never really excavated a Han Dynasty imperial tomb, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, especially like the Yuan Emperor, The extravagance of the 7 emperors before the emperor, our imagination is probably really not enough.
The mainland only excavated a tomb of the Marquis of Haixia in Jiangxi, but it is not buried with huang yang inscription, nor is it buried at the level of the king, some friends may have visited the tomb of the Liang Xiaowang family in Yongcheng, Henan, including the Dabaotai in Beijing, or the mausoleum of the king of Guangyang, as well as the tomb of the king of Chu in Xuzhou, after looking at these tombs, just the tombs of Liang Guo and Chu State are basically all hollowed out in a mountain, and the Han tomb of Dabaotai is also a neat and tidy huangyang inscription. What kind of specifications will the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han be, it should be said that it will definitely exceed our imagination, some friends in the archaeological community say that in fact, in the industry has long known that it is the tomb of Emperor Wen of Han, but the archaeological discipline of cultural relics has not dared to say publicly, what kind of reason is this we do not know.
Because all the pictures and all the information, all the information before the official release of the information, is not able to do any public announcement, and the domestic protection of cultural relics has very strict regulations, in fact, since the excavation in Dingling, it should be said that it is a failed experience of archaeology, for all the major ancient tombs found, without passive excavation, that is, after the harassment of tomb robbers, we can not take the initiative to excavate, Because keeping it as it is may be the best way to protect cultural relics, but many people will think of these things as simple, and will summarize some archaeological acts as an act of digging ancestral graves.
Some people even post on the Internet that the archaeological team is open, blatantly robbing the tomb, this kind of talk is very ignorant, because the real you have to participate in the archaeological work after you will know, for them is really not for those tombs in the gold and silver treasures, because in each of the original tombs will contain a lot of information about the social culture, customs, customs of the time, whether it is stone carvings, stone carvings, pottery, bamboo, and even a lot of bamboo Jane, from the economic value of what money you can not sell, But for archaeologists, for historians, this is a real treasure that cannot be sought, but the tomb robber you have to know that he is quickly digging up in a short period of time, quickly leaving, so his damage to the tomb is very serious.
Now we have also seen a lot of relics unearthed from Sanxingdui, even the surface of the soil, some of the backfill soil unearthed in these tomb sacrifice pits, are not allowed to be lost casually, especially in the case of the rampant phenomenon of tomb robbery in previous years, many tomb corpses are almost all damaged, such as the bones of the famous Mawangdui, if it is not scientifically discovered, then we simply do not know that there is such a female corpse, and we will not understand at all, the embalming technology of the corpse in the Western Han Dynasty, As for the shushu zhujian and the like according to the thinking of that time, it was gone, so the tomb robbery was for profit, and there was no other consideration, and the main purpose of archaeology was to satisfy the curiosity about cultural history.
Because for these primitive tombs that exist everywhere in The country, their tomb construction is also a lot of people's painstaking efforts, not a person's private property, if you can openly excavate all his relics, properly kept and taken out for us to study the culture and history of the time, the development of society for us to understand some of the real things that happened in his period, is of great help, this is the biggest difference between archaeology and tomb robbery.