Unopened Treasure: The Secret Tomb of the First Chinese Emperor - 24 Amazing Facts

The tomb of the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, despite being one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all times, endures as a mystery to archaeologists and historians as it remains largely sealed up and unexplored. The strange and deadly history of the tomb and its contents was sealed within and buried beneath vegetation for thousands of years.

[alphonsineaguillon]

Thank goodness, western colonial powers didn’t get the chance to rip the tomb apart as they did to the pyramids of Egypt.

[UltimateAdigaGamer]

We built space stations but can’t unearth this tomb, fascinating, must be one hell of a tomb!

[sphi]

I heard about this in 2012 and it randomly popped up in my head, so it being 5 years since then, I was hoping at least something important may have been discovered, but nothing at all. Yes, the tomb is looted, and there's no saying the traps will or will not still work, but there are definitely traps. I mean the guy built over 8, 000 terra-cotta soldiers to serve him in the afterlife and literally killed anyone who knew about the building of the tomb. So i'm sure its heavily looted. And then there's the danger to the exposure of mercury. But as for destruction of the site, if over 2000 years ago they were able to create such a magnificent tomb, i'm sure 2000 years later we can open it, it will have to be fragile and will take time. But I say open the damn thing already, I want to be alive to witness it.

[gman]

Mercury levels are so high there, if anyone has been in they have high levels of mercury poisoning

[chubalongchar]

I hope the excavation happen to before I die.

[romanbryant]

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's tomb

[baronzaebos]

Escavating is the easy part, it's protecting it that costs millions.

[jeanleo]

As a Chinese, I hope the tomb be unopened forever.

[Spoonrrr]

The only one thing i wanna see. Who cares about alien!

[huytu]

I personally think they should keep the tomb untouched. Let the man rest and rule his own “nation” for another “10000 generations”.

[asianthor]

I want a tomb like this for me when I go, I just need to find 700, 000 people to build it for me. Who wants to sign up?

[rosscityofliverpool.]

I would not be surprised if someone or many have been inside the tomb and robbed from it.

[lightowl]

I say tunnel into it for a camera probe, then light the place up to take videos and pictures.
Only evil hides away in secrecy, humanity needs to follow the light being open honest and true.
That's the real magic of knowing, understanding existence as the positive not a negative.
Light of Truth always conquers the Darkness of Evil, it's just a matter of Time✌🏻

[garmithegingerninja]

I always wonder how did the historian sima qian know what was inside the tomb hundreds of years after the first emperors passing since in documentaries don't say how he knew since the tomb is very toxic with mercury ?

How did he get pass the traps etc inside the tomb?

Could he been inside the tomb and found what was inside and even found hidden doors to go in and out?

Could sima qian been inside the tomb or did he broke inside the tomb and steal the treasures or did he have family that helped built the tomb and could be the reason why he knew all this stuff?

Why didn't the know about the terracotta army?

How did the first emperor get more than 500 tones of mercury inside his tomb?

I bet the government have already been inside the tomb and I bet inside the tomb is the most valuable thing on earth?

Just imagine the technology to use to open the tomb so nothing decays that's advance technology and I wonder what's inside.

I wonder if the 2nd emperor of china or the emperor who built the forbidden city or other emperors of china ever tried to see what's inside his tomb?

[SilentMover]

Bruh...the 22nd picture is a machine from Leonardo Da Vinci. WTF

[reesespeanut]

probably there's nothing. they just keep us with the suspense to make the place more attractive.

[dwijgurram]

It's not a tomb, it's a pyramid with Mercury underneath exactly like the one in Teotihuacan

[cracktower]

Rivers and Lakes of Mercury / Its just Jaw Dropping.

[ryanbarker]

i understand not going inside for cultural reasons, but i have a tough time buying into the idea that they couldn't investigate if they really wanted to. with drones, robotics, and camera technology, it's absurd to me to think we can go to the titanic site, but not one sitting intact on land.

[vincentciaramella]

I love the music. Can you please tell me what it is.