Everyone knows that tomb robbery is illegal, but from ancient times to the present, why are there still many tomb robbers, who go forward to rob tombs? Mainly because the burial goods in the tomb are tempting.
So many tombs have been stolen in history, is there no time when tomb robbers lost their hands? There is a tomb in Henan, which has been visited by countless tomb robbers for more than 2,000 years, but no one has succeeded.
Some tomb robbers actually died in the tomb. Next, let's explain to you: China's first murderous tomb, which has been stolen many times but is still well preserved, what makes many tomb robbers fall into distress?
The tomb is located in Henan Province, and in 2005, the Henan Cultural Relics and Archaeology Working Group began excavations of the Guozhuang Chu Tomb, and experts concluded based on the funerary items that it was a tomb of a prince of the Chu State in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.
Experts found more than 30 bodies while cleaning up the prince's tomb. The bodies were not slaves of the tomb owners, they were all found outside the coffin. These corpses are from the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.
To solve this mystery, we must start with the construction of the tomb. This tomb is different from other tombs, the top layer of this tomb is rammed earth layer, and in the middle is a 13-meter quicksand layer.
Under the quicksand layer is the coffin of the tomb owner, and people who like to see the tomb robbers know that this is a very famous sand tomb. The sand tomb is a tomb-shaped system that used sand to fill the tomb in order to prevent theft in ancient times.
The owner of the tomb will generally stir the quicksand over high heat, so that the liquidity of the quicksand is very strong. Quicksand and stones are then filled into the tomb, when the tomb robbers dig deeper into the tomb.
Sand would flow in from all sides to block the holes, and stones would fall down, killing or injuring the grave robbers. The more than 30 corpses in the prince's tomb are tomb robbers who have never returned for more than 2,000 years.
Experts have done more than ten days of work just to clean up the quicksand. The entire tomb mouth was found to be 25 meters long from east to west, 17 meters long from north to south, and about 18 meters deep, and the scale was very amazing.
Because of the quicksand tomb, this tomb is very well preserved. More than 1,000 bronze artifacts have been unearthed from the tomb, including ceremonial vessels, musical instruments, and wine vessels. In addition, jade wrenches and jade ear spoons have also been unearthed.
Now it seems that without the protection of quicksand, we would not be able to see these more than 1,000 precious cultural relics, let alone fill the gap in this history, and have to admire the wisdom of the ancients.