Because of This, Archaeologists Dare Not Excavate The Tomb of The First Emperor of China
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- In 1974, the discovery of the Chinese Emperor's burial complex containing approximately eight thousand life-sized terracotta warrior statues became one of the most significant discoveries in history. Although the complex is believed to contain secrets of the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, archaeologists are still reluctant to touch the tomb that serves as his final resting place due to concerns of potential damage or destruction of the historic site, as well as potential traps and dangers inside. Qin Shi Huang was the first emperor of China who achieved many remarkable accomplishments, including the construction of the Great Wall of China, but he also desired eternal life and ordered scientists and explorers to search for a magical elixir, which ultimately did not grant him immortality.
It is remarkable to think of each soldier, and other pieces, being made individually. I’d imagine it took years to create them all.
I once read that many of the figures were massed produced, but the heads we individually made
Large Shops...
or get 8000 artists to each make a soldier based on their own appearance.
Another poorly made AI BS video!
Nah i did that shit in like 3 days
Indiana Jones would have been able to successfully defeat all the traps if Disney hadn’t ruined him.
😂
Go woke go broke
true
Like they ruin everything
Its black rock and Kathleen Kennedy’s faults. South park even made a funny episode making fun of them for it.
I had the honor of visiting during my first travel to China. It is unreal. You can literally feel you’re on sacred grounds. #TerraCottaSoldiers #EmperorQinshihuang
I seriously doubt the tomb has not been opened. Human curiosity, of something this magnificent, could not be contained for all these years. The time, lives, and wealth this required is unimaginable, yet we knew nothing of it. I wonder what else is out there.
The Chinese cultures are very superstitious. There is said to be a curse have been placed to whomever disturb the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. It have been over 30yrs and they still haven't even try too look inside pretty much tell us the superstition. I have read somewhere the curse is towards the downfall of leader(s) if the tomb is ever being disturb so I don't think Xi or any Chinese government will allow it.
They'll chip away at it, one grain of sand at a time, until it's completely revealed
Not in any harry to open yet until its safe (no heaving digging) to do so.
It indeed hasn't been opened yet. China's current technology is not able to deal with the large scale of the underground palace yet. For example, in the case of the Terracotta Army, the archaeologists were initially unable to preserve the coat of paint on the surface of terracotta figures, which resulted in the rapid shedding of their painted decoration when exposed to air. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage (SACH) indicated that research and evaluations should be conducted first so as to develop a protection plan for the underground palace.
It's surrounded in Mercury. you will literally die if you open it. Pus oxidization will ruing most artifacts so it's better to wait until they have tech that won't damage it when opened
Yet archeologist raided the tombs of thr Egyptian Pharoahs but afraid to touch this one ? 😮
The scale of this necropolis is astounding. I always think of the ego of the occupant who planned his legacy and the huge amount of labor that it entailed, not to mention the cost in human lives it must have taken.
He must have had an ego almost as bloated as trump's.
Its not about "ego" its about Power.
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I’ve been to both sites and have always wondered why determined tomb robbers could so thoroughly ransack Egypt’s wonders over the centuries, but the first Chinese emperor’s tomb was not.
Because of the poisons
I heard that Qin's tomb was not only buried but covered with forest on top. Combined with the mass murder of its builders which included their families and anyone involved in its construction, the tomb was effectively hidden. I am not sure if the pyramids were buried but if it were, it was just a matter of time before sand erosion revealed these massive structures.
We still don't know if the tomb is intact or has been sacked already precisely because it has not been excavated yet. Curses and, traps and "poisons"have never stopped tomb raiders so far...
Mercury levels are astronomically high. The soils surrounding it been tested thoroughly.
With well known effects of mercury, it's a no-brainer why it had not been looted.
@@wildestsquirrelwildestsqui5020 I don't think ancient tomb raiders were able to test for mercury levels. I believe it to be more like it was well hidden. Buried and then covered with forest. Also anyone who knew the location were killed off. It was farmers who discovered the place meaning the place was eventually inhabited and farmed on for centuries without suffering the immediate effects of mercury poisoning. People eventually wore off the soils covering it and hit the site.
I've been there twice in Xi'an. Its truly an amazing and humbling experience.
Wait what? I’ve seen this in multiple movies but always thought this was fictional. This is amazing!
I'm now 52 I knew about this when I was 10
We were taught this in school, when really young. Crazy to think your schools didn’t teach you.
@@fredrick1176 maybe, but I honestly don’t remember! Come to think about it I don’t think we learned a lot about Asia. Only some about Indonesia and the VOC but that’s because I’m Dutch and that’s part of our history.
I'm 30 and we learned about it in the 5th grade
I'm 92 andeirh diene djssm.
Didn't mention that all the statues were painted in colour and the colour dissapeared when exposed to air
Well just like the 2 guts that found king Tut at least they'll live forever in the history books😊😊👍👍
I cant think of anything, any place in the world that can compete with that massive stunning display of funeric art.
I think a discovery that would be just as big would be Lu Bu's final resting place.
I wonder if the studs on their armor have any meaning in pattern (constellations, etc.)
That is one of the most incredibly created art work in the world!! God bless the artists!! That is talent!!
There is seriously a lot of BAD info in this video. The tomb is literally a mound of dirt in the shape of a pyramid so people have known about the tomb since it was built. You really can't miss the tomb since its the tall structure in a flat region of the country. The terracotta soldiers are a different story. That was buried by dirt and forgotten until it was found in the 1970s. Even then, it wasn't buried too far from the site since it was around a mile or 1.4 km away from the burial site.
The real reason for not opening the tomb is mainly because of Chinese superstition that if the tomb was opened, it would curse and destroy the country with bad luck. Its always bad luck in any Asian culture to disturb tombs unless its to rebury the ancestors in better locations. More so with this tomb since it was the first emperor and he had a penchant for destruction. His desire to live forever by using mercury pills is also one of the reason why people fear his spirit still exists inside the tomb. There are also rumors of rivers of mercury inside the tomb and had enough fuel storage to keep torches lit for thousands of years (which is unlikely). The mercury theory was likely given equipment detected high levels of it in the dirt above the tomb.
Ancient people were not afraid of mercury. They thought it was a way to achieve immortality. That was not the reason why people in the past never opened it. The main reason is still the threat of a curse.
Well it's an AI generated video so yea it's just pulling info from multiple sources and those sources come from wherever the creator chooses whether they're right or wrong. These kinda AI history videos are so easy to make yet so easy to get wrong by simply programming the wrong source material. TH-cam is being inundated with lazily thrown together AI videos and this is where the real misinformation war starts.
I guess the archeologists are scared of being too *mercurial* ... literally.
they’e making it sound like the mercury was there specifically to “warn” whoever comes when in reality the belief is that mercury is associated with the divine
Xian , went there in 95. Was very Impressive. . Across the street from the parking area was a huge market selling only animal skins. Bizarre … xian was very polluted . And this was back in 1995 .
I remember when they found this. Its as beautiful now as it was then.❤
the worlds first currency and measurement system, so we just gone ignore Egyptians
so.... don't drink mercury, honey and wine together. Got it 🍷🍯
This was awsome !!! He must of been proad of and loved his army. And they say you can't take it, with you, when you go !!! Well he tried !!! 😢 😮 🤪 😊
Fascinating documentary. Really curious what they gonna unearth inside the tomb.
A corpse
Not forgetting booby traps and we all know that humans are suckers for boobies!
@justrelaxing1501that movie wasn’t bad imo.
I’m amazed by the statues, but I see all that baked clay and I just can’t imagine the kilns!
The most valuable treasure hidden will be literatures written on the bamboo pieces. Which will be extremely difficult to preserve.
No telling what the ancients could have done. Amazing.
Sealing workers in the tomb is murder, plain and simple.
His self importance was his downfall
Hundreds of thousands worked their whole lives on the tomb. Tens of thousands were imprisoned alive in it. And to think that I considered Kim-Jong-Un a biggest psychopath of the day...
Qin Shi Huang didn’t build the Great Wall, it had already been built, he just had parts of it connected. Just like he united several kingdoms into one state. He was a cruel and ruthless man who had many books burned and scholars executed. The Terracotta Army was replacing lots and lots of human sacrifice. Many had to die with him but the army must have been powerful enough that they talked him into substituting real human soldiers with their terracotta images.
As for the grave itself, mercury is highly volatile and if it was in open surfaces like imitation rivers and sea, it didn’t stay there. It also has the ability to dissolve every and any other metals in it, especially precious metals, thus creating alloys (liquid mixed metal solutions). Remember the old silver tooth fillings? Now that was mercury/silver alloy.
My guess is that every bit of metal in that grave was contaminated, corroded and dissolved by the mercury fumes and then the liquid slowly seeped into the ground. I would not drink well water there. What is left is possibly not that attractive for treasure hunters and not that informative for archaeologists.
I find it ironic that he died because he wanted to live forever and even in his death he was pickled in mercury.
Society: “you can’t take it with you.”
Qin Shi Huang: “Watch me.”
I don't believe it has not been opened. I just think what they found was something to be ashamed of.
You base that on what information?
You have badly mispronounced the name of the emperor Qin Shi Huang. Please have it corrected.
Reminds me of the movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.
I remember the revealing of the terracotta army when they first acknowledged its existence. I was born in the 80s.
I'll tell you what though. It is always fascinated me. Something kind of like Indiana Don's archeology is always fascinated. To all of the porcelains that were lost, The Great Wall is nothing but a cemetery. Even his own burial is nothing but a cemetery.
Search for immortality was never found. But his memory will live forever. So in a way he did reach immortality.
He gave us The Great Wall of China which you can see from space. And his tomb is probably beyond breath. Taking jaw-dropping how there is an even words of how magnificent and must look. I understand that Archeologist
Are unsure about going further and maybe the Chinese government doesn't want it bothered, but we have technology now to where we can send cameras in that that look like bugs. Although it have to do is drill a little hole through the door and let the camera go. You can use remote control drone to go through all different kinds of rooms. That way, you could see what the inside looks like. And get a first look without putting anyone in danger.
Another thing is.
Government governments are Not wanting to spend the money to uncover it, but just think of all the money andtuitist you will make everyday.
Will reach and overcome the money that was even invested.
It still stands as a bit. A question of what is truly in there other than what our imagination can give.
For everyone saying they can’t drill a hole to look in because they don’t want air to begin the decay process, there are ways to do this it’s not the reason. The reason almost certainly comes down entirely to cultural reasons one of which is their strong superstitious attitude.
Fascinating documentary but the music sound very very disturbing
Eventually, let’s hope, intelligent people will get tired of the scare stories and approach this site to do a complete scientific, archeological excavation. This will put the scare story narrators out of business here.
When you want to do such a show, Please get the emperor's name right ! His name is Qing Shi Huang
Who on earth is Qing Shai Hai ???!!!
Shame I couldn't watch due to the very intrusive music overlay, so turned if off
Assuming their were traps (bows and arrows), realistically, what's the chance they would still function after more than two thousand years? Also, isn't this why we have robots?
Very awesome site, a tomb still relatively intact, yes it is probably looted of artifacts but there will still be all sorts of information available of this emperors lifetime on earth.
Very, very strange. 🧐
Moral of the story, don't believe anyone who wants to give you something if they are your subordinate unless you really do trust them.
whats the movies name at the end?
Seems that a River of Mercury doesn't just go away....they simply Distribute it! :) It is what the Pale Horseman does!
Use ground-penetrating sensors to determine if there's a void. Then drill a small hole through. Remove the drill bit, then run a powerful light inside chased by a camera. I doubt that would harm anyone nor whatever is inside.
I am starting to think they don't want to desecrate the site After all this is the tomb of the first emperor who forged the ancient Chinese kingdoms into the singular entity it is today. If it weren't for him the Chinese continent may have been divided into multiple countries like Europe was in the past.
@@rockprime1136 Valid point. On the other hand the Chinese government could use the wealth found inside.
If any oxygen or bright light hit the objects inside the tomb they will rapidly oxidize and many finds will be lost. If example all the terracotta warriors are painted but when they dig them up the air dicompused the paint and leave them unpainted.
If the experts thought this a workable strategy. They would have attempted it I'm sure. Or maybe they already have?
@@malahammer Well, they have used a ground penetrating radar apparatus on the great pyramid and found another void, but that's it.
Saw some of these statutes including horses at the museum when they were on tour many years ago. Amazing .
Might booby trapped , or have a deadly virus from when he was buried, either way I believe it’s highly disrespectful to open the burial place, maybe have a mini camera to look inside as long as nothing was moved , X-ray ?
Well if we can send robots into the core of reactors, we can drill a hole into the tomb,and send in a robot....
oh so you have to cast the Piertotem Locomotor spell and they’ll come to life!
Surely they can use robots to explore the tomb !
This is so on my bucket list to see.
No need to open the first emperors tomb, just have a peek on top of the tomb, drill the soil using a bore whole and when done use a camera with flashlights on with long rope to see thru the insides of the tomb and thats it, then for generations set up a long elevator for visitors to see and visit the emperor, no need to go really further inside and on the front of the emperors tomb lol, just inside but on top protected with mirrors
I bet the tomb has long since been opened and explored. They will say anything they want, those folks there, in that place.
This would be a great video if it was not for the loud background music I could hardly hear the moderator
Ohh so they will pretty much rob the pyramids of Giza but won’t go through this seems a lil suspicious
leave that mans body alone and let him rst in peace yall always fw stuff
How wondrous this is. I'm sure it was constructed using slave labour and merciless brutality but miraculous to behold.
1:46 ~ Erm…shame on the producers of this documentary for letting the narrator utterly butcher the pronunciation of 秦始皇. If the romanization of these three Chinese characters，Qín Shǐ Huáng, leaves you scratching your head, you can hear the correct pronunciation using Google. Even an iPad can pronounce Chinese characters in Mandarin more credibly.
Always wondered where the heck they got all that mercury from
it's actually because rulers are superstitious and don't want to move 'the first emperor''s tomb out of fear of bringing ill fortune.
Hopefully in my lifetime we will see inside as it must be magnificent if the detail to the warriors is any sort of guide
I respect Chinese doesn't open the tomb but am so curious the most impressive history is their😩😁
I always laugh when I hear people say that the tomb has "bow and arrow" booby traps. It's hard to believe that wooden bows and string would last more that a couple of hundred years much less 2000. If there are any left I'm sure they have rotted since then. The "rivers on mercury" could easily be defeated my haz mat suits. I think the real reason is that the Chinese are a suspicious lot and are afraid of the bougy man.
They are communist so of course they'd be wary of the "bougy" man. Now if they're afraid of the boogie man that's another story
Bronze bows and arrows ? Or tempered alloy .
@@jeraldbaxter3532 One Chinese documentary I watched - available on TH-cam I think - said much the same as you. There is so much that they are still trying to preserve what has already been found, no point in opening up more of the tomb until they have finished with what is already being excavated/investigated because the end result will be a lot of nothing.
Background music way to loud
Mispronounced the 1st Chinese emperor's name is annoying.
Qin is pronounced as shin....like leg area known as shin. Shi is pronounced as shee.....like sheep or sheen. Huang is pronounced as h'wan. 🤦♀️ I'm not Chinese but at least I can pronounce it correctly.
Are you sure about Qin. I think it is closer to Chin.
@@mikeconroy8214 it's SHIN. I heard that name plenty of times & the pronunciation is shin.
Chin Shy Hi :)) Chin She Hwang
I’m Chinese and I’m pretty sure it should be Qin ‘Tzing’ Shi ‘Shih’ (like shirt before the r sound) Huang ‘Who-wah-ng’
Robots greatest purpose will be to go where no man has gone before.
If the dynasty Qin United with the other 4 kingdoms.
If destroyed emperor chin's army and the dynasty of Qin Pin self and unified the rest of China with chin out of the way but he waited for chin to take 3 kingdoms. They sat back and waited while they sent people on assassination missions instead of reaching out and making alliances and taking them out when they had the chance. But they sat back and waited and that was your downfall
Interesting thanks
Dude died because he wanted to live forever lol
Is Mercury the reason
The earliest Japanese Emperors' tombs also have not been opened or broken into.
Perhaps the Japanese authorities fear the excavation of these tombs (kofun) will reveal the early Emperors to in fact have been Korean.
Yeah maybe they'll bust into the tomb just to find they set up a Kwik-E-Mart in there.
Look at "modern armored soldiers" more frightening than look at "ancient Egyptian abomination".
How do they know hes the first? Maybe he was just really good at removing history.
he drank a cup of mercury?? 😂
Yo you dead? Let me dig your grave and show it to the world.
Archeologists...
A job for life, why spoil it. 😊
Cut out the f***ing music! It completely spoils the video.
At the site in Xi’an, you can buy an autograph from the old “farmer” who discovered the site in 1974. He must be about 150 years old by now.
Very irritating music.
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VERY Hard to hear the narrator with the creepy music... Turn off the stupid music!!
Leave the guy alone! But then noBODY is safe from grave diggers!
8 minutes to say: Ancient scribes say the tomb has traps and is filled with toxic chemicals designed to kill anyone that enters.
They could get robots to open the tomb, like they use to investigate bombs.
They wont excavate because there real humans covered in purple vail
Its packed out with mercury
Music is far too loud
Chin Shy Hang - RIP pronunciation
Is it cause of the pool of mercury that surrounds the tomb???
When hearing the narrator spelling the Emperor's name in English it sounds so dumb and weird for those who knew Chinese.
The narrator simply spelled : 'Cheen Shy Hank' instead of the correct 'Chin Tze Hooang'.
Ditch the background music...it gets in the way.
i see greed and evil inside
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Every time the narrator says "Ching Shy Hang"... ugghhh. It's not difficult to look up pronunciations.
Time stamp 7:47 Elixir of eternal life only consist of mercury and he drank it with honey WOW
The music is too loud and obtrusive
Booby traps aren't a problem. Not sure why we are acting like we don't have technology that can do this stuff for us. A virus on the other hand though, could be a problem lol
Maybe it was just a stonemason factory were they sold statues