The Scary Reasons Why Archaeologists Won't Enter This Ancient Tomb!

Here's why, archaeologists are too scared to open the tomb of China's first emperor despite discovering this site almost 40 years ago and exploring the majority of it, no one has seen inside the actual tomb for over two thousand years since the emperor was first sealed inside. Now, the fears to open this Tomb come from the writings of an ancient Chinese historian who wrote that the tomb is hooked up to a number of booby traps that were designed to kill anyone who tries to enter, not only with the Craftsman order to make crossbows and arrows primed to shoot any Intruders but even if these fail, archaeologists say that there's another and even more dangerous threat. When the tomb is constructed, they use huge amounts of mercury, which is highly toxic, to simulate entire rivers and set them to flow mechanically. So, due to these concerns, what Mysteries lie inside this tomb remain to be sealed and unseen.

[tessietesoro]

The emperor knew before he passed from this world, that future generation will be curious, will open / sabotage the tomb.

[yuritardedmane]

You don't think the Chinese government has already been all up in that

[蛋疼的日常]

The main reason for prohibiting the opening of the tomb is that there is no perfect technology available to protect the newly unearthed relics. Some of the Terracotta Army figures, when first unearthed, were covered with original colored pigments, but these pigments completely peeled off within just a few minutes. In another Han Dynasty royal tomb dating back over 2, 000 years, a bowl of lotus root slice soup was unearthed. After being exposed to the air for just a few seconds, it turned into black residue. There are many more examples like this.

[sierrajohnson]

They mainly want to be sure they can actually preserve whatever they find in there: Modern bacteria makes things like paint or bio material that’s been sealed off decompose WAY QUICKER. Look up what happened when they opened up the “Chinese diva mummy” tomb: she was exceptionally well preserved, but modern bacteria introduced when they broke the seal basically caused her to start to ‘melt’ les than a week later. They don’t wanna risk doing that to such an important tomb/corpse

[Nighthawk]

Don't we have microcameras that can show the contents of the tomb??

[NoOne-fodi]

If only humanity could invent a device that was able to transmit what it's seeing back to a viewing device. We could call robot or drone. Maybe in a few hundred years someone will think of something like that

[Teddyhive]

That ain’t stop them from opening the stuff in Egypt but now they scared the disrespect

[jacobolivard]

I like to think there is an ancient Chinese version of MTV-cribs where every emperor and nobleman sneakily studying each others booby traps/mechanisms/ and techniques for psychological warfare. Bros were literally playing mousetrap with their own deaths, pretty wicked!

[Nighthawk]

How could the rivers flow mechanically?? For how long? A perpetual mechanism?

[ericedwards]

The emperor : 'Don't touch my shit'

[magorzataczarodziej]

Thank, be beautiful video. Amazing work. Maggi

[MinchMisty]

The fears of opening this tune is because archaeologists are scared to break the artifacts and there wasn’t enough people to dig three mountains

[honeybadger]

Don't touch! It's called respect for the deceased

[esteban]

i feel like if you open the doors a shit ton of arrows will bombard you

[jacobolivard]

I knew about the archer booby traps, but mercury rivers????

[Enterthedragon-yeom]

The authority also believed open the tomb might bring the bad luck and disrupt(destroy) the current prosperity of China

[MarhlboroMan]

Why do archaeologists think they have the right to open this shit, even if it is to conserve that’s most likely not the original intentions when these sites were created so let time take its course and leave it alone.

[greggonzales]

Me and some buddies have a plan to break into it this summer.

[fn]

First we have armour that would protect anyone from that time of deadlines 2 we have high protections again merc and other chemicals . Open this already

[CloutChaser]

This kind of makes no sense if the mercury is poisonous or what ever it is, how the hell did they Get ahold of and transport mercury themselves.. i smell cap lets enter the tomb