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Found "living creatures" in thousand-year-old tombs? The archaeological team entered it and found more than a dozen live catfish!

Ancient Chinese especially liked thick burials, and they would spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build a large-scale ancient tomb, especially the ancient emperors, who basically hollowed out the national treasury to build tombs for themselves. In order to prevent people from disturbing their own tranquility, the ancients generally chose a relatively remote place when building tombs, but even so, they will still be found, and there are often thousands of years of ancient tombs that are stolen and destroyed by tomb thieves.

Found "living creatures" in thousand-year-old tombs? The archaeological team entered it and found more than a dozen live catfish!

In the past few decades, in order to protect these historical heritage, the state has formulated a series of strict laws and regulations to prohibit the casual excavation of ancient tombs, in addition to the state has also vigorously supported the archaeological industry, hoping that archaeologists can carry out protective excavations at the first time of discovering ancient tombs to avoid the destruction of the things inside by tomb robbers.

Found "living creatures" in thousand-year-old tombs? The archaeological team entered it and found more than a dozen live catfish!
Found "living creatures" in thousand-year-old tombs? The archaeological team entered it and found more than a dozen live catfish!

The discovery shocked archaeologists, as the environment in the tombs was simply not suitable for fish. So why does this tomb exist? Some people speculate that it may be that the construction workers dug a gap when dredging the cement, so that the catfish were left in the tomb through sewage. Judging from the size and internal structure of the tomb, this place should be at least thousands of years old. Even if there had ever been a living creature, it would not have survived for so long. This speculation is reasonable and has been recognized by many people, but some people still think that the appearance of these catfish has another hidden meaning, but everyone has not guessed it.

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