introduction
Our country's burial system can be said to be a tradition, whether it is an emperor with a noble status or an ordinary poor people, after death, they will be properly buried. However, depending on the identity, the specifications of the tomb are also different. The tomb of the emperor general Xiang is much more luxurious, and it was once recorded in the "Record of Differences" that in a tomb found near Anzhou: "More than a hundred gold noodles were obtained, and the weight was one hundred pounds." Such a rich funeral product, the owner must be a person who is not rich or noble.
It is precisely because there are such rich funerary products that many tomb robbers have been born, specializing in stealing such funerary products from rich families. Therefore, many such noble tomb owners will do everything well before they die, and do some organs in the tomb to prevent someone from disturbing their own purity after their long sleep. It is recorded in the "Old Yi of Han" that in the tombs of the emperors of the Han Dynasty: "It will be used as a camp cemetery, with internal square stones, outer sand performances, household crossings and horizontal Moye, ambush crossbows, ambush fires, bows and arrows and sand, and gaigu systems have their own machines."
Excavation of ancient tombs
Because the tomb is generally underground, such an organ can not be predicted in advance, so many tomb robbers in the process of tomb robbery, but also with the tomb owner long sleep in the ground. At the end of the 20th century, a tomb was also found, which is "China's first murderous tomb", in which 80 tomb robbers died tragically.
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This tomb is buried in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and the reason why it was discovered can be said to be a coincidence. At that time, the area where the tomb was located was to be under construction, and in the process of working on the construction team, a relatively special stone stele was found. This stone stele is not an ordinary stone at first glance, and it is also engraved with many ancient texts that cannot be understood. The leader of the construction team was a well-informed person, and at a glance he saw that it was an antiquity, so he suspended the work of the entire construction team and told the department in charge of antiquities research about the stone stele.
After the matter was reported, the relevant archaeological departments quickly sent experts to survey the area. The mood of the experts is actually very urgent, because this kind of stone monument is generally not scattered outside. If it had been scattered outside, it is likely that the tomb had already been patronized by tomb robbers. In this way, there are many valuable cultural relics missing from the tomb.
Not only that, but in the process of tomb robbers, they may also violently destroy many traces of research value. Archaeologists have seen more of this situation, and they are really sorry and cold. However, after the tomb was excavated, everyone was surprised to find that although the tomb had traces of being entered on the outside, the tomb was indeed undamaged.
Robbery hole
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After a comprehensive investigation of the tomb, experts found that the reason why the tomb was not looted by tomb robbers was because it had an extremely effective anti-theft design. The burial chamber has a high cliff, seven meters high. Many tomb robbers enter the tomb at night in the dark, and if one is not careful, he may fall off this cliff. Falling off such a high cliff can basically be said to have no possibility of survival.
In addition, the tomb also has a lot of quicksand, and a lot of quicksand is just below the cliff. So even if the grave robbers fell off such a high cliff and did not fall to their deaths, they would soon be buried in these quicksand. This quicksand is a bit like the quicksand in the desert, and the more you struggle, the faster you get buried. People who fall into the quicksand basically have a face-to-face with black and white impermanence.
Quicksand tomb structure
In order to facilitate the study, archaeologists have used some special methods to clean up these quicksand. What I didn't expect was that the scene in front of me after the cleanup was really frightening. Underneath these quicksand, more than 80 bodies were buried. And judging from the things scattered next to the corpses, these people should all be people who came to rob the tomb. Depending on where they fell, it can be determined that most of them fell due to accidentally stepping on an empty cliff.
In addition to the owner of the tomb where the tomb is buried, there are more than 80 corpses of tomb robbers, calling it "China's first murderous tomb", which can be said to be the most appropriate. However, the deaths of more than 80 people in this tomb were not directly caused by the owner of the tomb. If they hadn't thought of robbing the tomb, their lives wouldn't have been buried here in vain. Subsequently, archaeologists sorted out many well-preserved cultural relics in this tomb. Because the anti-theft measures of this tomb are very good, the preservation of the disputed tomb is also very good, and experts have found many traces of research value.
Corpses in ancient tombs
epilogue
In any case, a gentleman loves money and has a way to get it. Tombs can be said to be an important source of mainland research history, and entering tombs at will to steal cultural relics is originally illegal. Many of the historical gaps in the mainland are caused by the destruction of tombs by tomb robbers. However, it is also very regrettable that so many young lives have been buried in vain. I hope that everyone can retain a sense of reverence for history and the ancients in the future, and be a person who loves the law and abides by the law and cherishes life!
References: "Record of Differences", "Han Old Yi"