With the rise of tomb robbery novels in recent years, people have developed a stronger interest in ancient tombs than before. In these novels and film and television works, tomb robbers will encounter many mysterious and bizarre and bizarre things.
Just as the so-called "crisis and wealth coexist", in order to obtain valuable funerary goods, these tomb robbers do not hesitate to risk their lives. And the crises they encounter are often related to the corpse poison in the tomb. Among these works, corpse poison is arguably the number one threat to people entering the tomb.
So, what kind of effect will real corpse poison have on people? Is it really as rendered in the artwork, killing people invisibly and even causing terrible consequences?
Push up the daisies
In the concept of the ancients, after a person dies, the burial is the ultimate destination of a person. To sum it up in one sentence, it is "dust to dust, soil to earth", and it seems that only such an arrangement can draw a satisfactory end to a person's life.
Based on this idea, whether it is a common people or an emperor, the ancients attach great importance to their ultimate destiny. Therefore, regardless of the location or specification of the cemetery, the ancients sought perfection. The emperor's mausoleum was beautifully built and cost a lot.
In order not to be disturbed after death, the ancients spent a lot of effort on the construction of tombs. This phenomenon not only appeared in ancient China, but also in other countries attached great importance to the construction of tombs.
In the movie "The Mummy", we can see how much the Egyptian pharaohs at that time attached importance to their tombs. When the protagonist and his party enter the pyramid to explore it, they not only encounter many mechanisms, but are even attacked by poisonous insects.
Although there are many artistic exaggerations in the bridges in the film, it is enough to see how much the ancient Egyptians attached to the question of whether they could get peace after death. In fact, the ancients did attach great importance to this problem.
In order not to be disturbed, the gate of the tomb is usually carved out of huge stones to keep future generations of disturbers out. In addition, the internal structure of the tomb is also very responsible. In addition to the structural division of the tomb, it also plays a confusing role to a certain extent.
It can be said that the construction of the tomb has promoted the development of the ancient construction industry on the mainland to a certain extent. It is precisely because the ancients worked the construction of tombs that they have accumulated rich architectural experience, resulting in many well-known buildings.
The schemes of the grave robbers
Because the tomb was isolated from the outside world and was built so strongly during construction, people were more curious about the scene in the tomb. Grave robbers for a living became the only way for people to get internal counseling.
And when people relay their experiences to others, they often like to exaggerate the facts in order to obtain a greater sense of accomplishment and superiority. As a result, the situation inside the tomb was publicized more and more bizarrely after several processing.
Among the many bridges, the one that attracts the most attention of the audience is corpse poison. This gas or liquid with a putrid odor can have a huge and bizarre impact on the human body after people come into contact. Some will make people hallucinate, some can cause death, and even trigger the "corpse transformation" of the living.
In this way, people have a layer of fear in the already eerie tombs. And that's exactly what grave robbers expect. Under such a propaganda offensive, most people will be discouraged from large tombs, and tomb robbers can safely steal the treasures of the tombs.
However, for thousands of years, tomb robbers have never stopped looting ancient tombs. Combined with the previous publicity, these tomb robbers have become people with extraordinary skills in people's eyes. After all, those who dare to go to such a dangerous and corpse-poisoned tomb must have something superior.
This is also the reason why the works of art of the tomb robbery type can be widely accepted by people. After all, people are more likely to be inclined to accept their knowledge blind spots. Those seemingly bizarre and mysterious means of tomb robbery have become the true skills of tomb robbers.
However, in fact, the biggest skill of the tomb robber is to judge whether there is a tomb here according to the composition and structure of the soil, and the tomb robbery techniques such as "finding the dragon and exploring the cave" and "moving the mountain and unloading the mountain" described in the artwork are more exaggerated descriptions of the tomb robbers.
Real corpse poison
In 1971, when Mawangdui was building a hospital in Hunan Province, the land often collapsed after the construction began, and strange gases often appeared underground, which could be ignited and the flames were pale blue. All indications are that there may be ancient tombs underground.
So in January 1972, the archaeological team officially entered Mawangdui and began the excavation of the mausoleum. The tomb of Mrs. Xin Chai, who shocked the world, was thus excavated. Due to the well-preserved preservation of this tomb, a large number of cultural relics have been excavated, which is of great significance to the study of the history of the Han Dynasty.
Mrs. Xinchai's coffin has four layers, and when people open the last layer of the coffin, people are surprised to find that after spanning a long history, the body of Mrs. Xinchai is not only not decomposed, but even the skin muscles are still elastic, and the joints can also move.
Not only that, Mrs. Xin Chai also wore as many as twenty layers of clothing. In order not to destroy the clothes, the archaeologists patiently and meticulously removed them. Such meticulous work is a huge test for the staff, and many people take off their gloves to maximize the control of the force.
Because of this, after these staff members left, many marks appeared on their hands. These spots are painless, itchy, and do not produce any adverse reactions. The cause of these marks is the reaction caused by what people often call corpse poison.
After a few days of observation, people determined that these marks did not affect the human body, so they relaxed their minds and continued to work. After Mrs. Xin Chai's body came into contact with the air, the corpse poison had also been dissipated, and the people who came into contact with it did not produce marks.
People who had previously been marked by contact gradually returned to their original skin. People know that the so-called corpse poison is actually bacteria and microorganisms. Since the air in the burial chamber does not circulate, these bacteria and microorganisms naturally multiply in large quantities.
Still, these bacteria are not actually deadly, and they do not trigger the so-called "corpse transformation". The cause of death of the tomb robbers is likely to be due to the lack of oxygen in the tomb and the death, which has little to do with corpse poisoning.
epilogue
As the so-called "sake is red in the face, and the wealth is moving", even if it is a treasure hidden in the mausoleum, it will also attract people to loot. For the sake of these treasures, the tomb robbers have gone to great lengths to collect them.
In order to avoid competition from others, the situation in the mausoleum was described by the tomb robbers as an extremely terrifying place, and the corpse poison became a highly lethal invisible killer. It can be seen that driven by interests, the truth is usually covered up. Perhaps a person's greed is more terrible than corpse poison.