introduction
With the broadcast of film and television dramas on tomb robbery themes such as "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and "Ghost Blowing Lights", people have a better understanding of the tomb robbery industry. Ancients were keen to build tombs for themselves before they died and place rich funerary items in them, and naturally there were more tomb robbers. In order to prevent the resting place after death from being disturbed by tomb robbers, the ancients also came up with many ways to fight against tomb robbers.
According to the historian Wang Zijin, who has conducted in-depth research in this regard, the most convenient way to fight tomb robbery is to conceal the tomb site, so that the tomb robbers cannot find the location of the tomb, which is an effective means of anti-tomb robbery. But he went on to point out: "But this method of preventing tomb robbers cannot meet the psychological needs of the ancient princes and nobles in their pursuit of rich and eminent."
Archaeological site
Therefore, the ancients came up with a way to build a "virtual tomb", which can not only prevent tomb robbers from easily finding the true location of their tombs, but also show their authority to the world. The "crown tomb" that we often see in film and television works is actually a kind of "virtual tomb". In addition to this method, if you want to prevent the arrival of tomb robbers, then you must work the tomb, you need to use special materials to build the tomb incomparably firmly, but also to design a lot of exquisite mechanisms, even if there are tomb robbers lucky to break in, they must let them have no return. In the mainland, such a group of ancient tombs have been found, which is called "China's first murderous tomb", and 80 tomb robbers died tragically inside, and the tragic situation in the tomb is even more shocking.
Robbery hole
However, the tomb itself has a certain archaeological value, and the experts sorted out the mood and then carried out the next step of excavation work, and soon dug to the end of the burial chamber. What the experts did not expect was that at the end of the burial chamber where the coffin should have been placed, a cliff about 7 meters deep suddenly appeared. People who enter the tomb will fall into it without paying attention to it and become a "funerary product" in the tomb, and experienced experts keenly and immediately judge that this is a typical "quicksand tomb".
Quicksand tomb structure
In film and television works, we have also seen quicksand tombs, which are portrayed very dangerously. In fact, the quicksand tomb is indeed very dangerous, and people without relevant experience are likely to die if they encounter it. The quicksand tomb is actually a kind of mechanism design of the ancients to defend against tomb robbers. This mechanism takes advantage of the unstable characteristics of sand, and the craftsmen store a large amount of quicksand above the tomb, as long as there are tomb robbers who open the robbery hole and enter the tomb, these quicksand containing sharp stones will quickly block the robbery hole, and then smash the tomb robber to death or trap the tomb alive. It's hard not to lament the precision designs of these ancient craftsmen.
Quicksand Tomb
epilogue
However, in response to such a quicksand tomb, experts also have a way to deal with it, in order not to destroy the original structure of the tomb as much as possible, experts have transferred excavation machinery to spend a period of time to clean up the quicksand. The ensuing scene also surprised the well-informed experts present. Just at the bottom of the tomb, there are countless corpses buried, after cleaning and calculation, there are a total of 80 corpses, and it is very rare to die so many people in a tomb, after expert investigation, these 80 people who died tragically in the tomb are tomb robbers of different dynasties. The death of these thieves who died by being buried in quicksand was shocking. In previous archaeological work, so many bodies have been found in a tomb at one time, and the tomb has been named "China's First Murder Tomb".
Ancient tombs for the study of the history of the mainland and other fields of great significance, the cultural relics in the tombs also belong to the country should not be privately occupied by any person, tomb robbers enter this tomb to steal national cultural relics is an illegal act, and finally ended up with this fate is also self-inflicted.