Tomb Scan Reveals Buried Treasure

[Badger Bart]

Tomb scan reveals buried treasure
Thursday, October 20, 2005; Posted: 1:02 a.m. EDT (05:02 GMT)
BEIJING, China (AP) --

A magnetic scan of the unopened tomb of China's first emperor has detected a large number of coins, suggesting Emperor Qin was buried with his state treasury, a news report said Thursday.

Qin, who ruled in 221-210 B.C., already is renowned for the thousands of terra cotta statues of soldiers found buried around his immense tomb outside the former imperial capital of Xi'an.
The latest finding was announced by Chinese and German archaeologists at a conference Wednesday in Xi'an, where the tomb was discovered in the 1970s, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Qin, also known as Qin Shihuangdi, or "First Emperor Qin," founded China's first imperial dynasty and is believed to have spent decades building his tomb.
Archaeologists have refrained from opening it until they decide how to preserve the treasures it is believed to contain.
The magnetic scan revealed new details of the tomb's structure and a "remarkable amount of coins," Xinhua said, citing Michael Petzet, president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites.
Coins of that era likely were made of bronze, with some perhaps made of silver.
The Xinhua report did not give any details of how the scan was conducted."Excavation sometimes means destruction," said Petzet. "Let them sleep underground. It's safer. No excavation should be done for fun or curiosity."
Qin was legendary for his cruelty. He reputedly press-ganged some 700,000 workers into building his mausoleum and had dissident scholars buried alive. (Nice guy)
Qin's son was overthrown three years after his death by founders of the Han dynasty, which lasted four centuries and is considered one of the pinnacles of classical Chinese civilization.
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

 

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[IrishCharlieM]

Cool Article..

 

[ZumbroKid]

 

[MrTideman]

Thanks B.B. --And what do you recommend as the best "magnetic scan"ner** on the market to find these treasures? as in some caves* and mounds I'd like to test it out on. Best wishes, MrTideman, Excatation Technician I (UNH); + my first visit to here today. In New England.

* + ** and more later, as my first posting failed to take, after I did put an http in the attachment section, it malfunctioning and saying only jpg files only, somehow freezing my preview as not posting. http://www.state.nh.us

 

[MrTideman]

* reference: http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/reading-room--adventures-in-chiprovtsi//id_9938/catid_29 for Bulgaria, paragraph #10: "People believe that the Balkan Range near Chiprovtsi conceals many gold treasures in its caves." like those already found of the Thracians, see photographs of the finds over at: http://www.travellady.com/articles/article-mfaexhibits.html by Shirley Moskow, about the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MAss.achusetts, U.S.A. this (past?) Summer.

See also: http://www.extremefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34427 of 17Aug.05 about The A.P. story of another archeological did in Bulgaria; there being 6000 tombs of the ancient Thrace over there according to another article, yet to read, after registry, finding it at http://www.google.com for: Bulgaria "buried treasure" with 1000s of poor farmers potentially wealthy, and one find resulting in the tax man paying them a visit as the answer to their family's new-found wealth. The cost of visiting there very cheap.

** Some company out in Oregon selling some device, but when I went to the annual Septemberfest at the KTP: Kittery Trading Post in Maine this year, the White's Metal Detector salesman says those long-range detectors don't work! There must be at least one find here in the states by some one specific instrument that can verify as proof of it working, and so as an advertisement for the rest of us for our expeditions, not as tomb robbers, but to seek out a finder's fee agreement with the gov't of whatever country to get x% of the treasure, like in being able to sell the duplicates the museum already has and/or simply to buy the land from the farmer, with a portion to him and another donation to the museum.

 

[ZumbroKid]

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[MrTideman]

Thanks. I just went there: http://www.okm-gmbh.de to write that they might like to visit to here with a reply of proof of the I-160 having found a WWII fighter plane at: _________, in their report that I did try to download, but un-successful, and a report-to-be(?) soon, for that Gold Find in Greece, at: ________ using _______?

They'll teach you how to use the right machine (cost: $_____) for the desired area to be searched, in 2 hours at their lab. So to maybe get some pictures of the terrain to be searched, like over in Bulgaria, the farmers, no doubt, with level land, so with #___ acres to cover, taking #x amount of time, and when the anomoly is found, to dig into one of these 6000 tombs! but how did they estimate these numbers? from like Indian mounds over here in the states? I'm not a spelunker for the caves, either open or entrances covered over, so maybe to get to higher ground for these after the field ones are found and excavated.