Alright so how about we build an air tight enclosure around a small part of the door, just big enough to get, say, a small drone through. A mechanical part of this enclosure would be saws or something to breech the door. Would probably want to draw a vacuum in the enclosure first just in case… maybe the enclosure could act as an airlock so researchers could access the drone for charging, upgrading, repairs, and whatnot?
I heard of this tomb when I was really young and ever since I’ve kinda used it as an engineering exercise in my head. Sometimes I draw things out for myself but this is the first time I’ve ever told anyone about it lol
"The formidable and ambitious Qin Shi Huang was the first to rule a unified China, and historical reports suggest he became obsessed with drinking mercury in a misguided quest for eternal life.
He often drank wine laced with mercury and might have died of mercury poisoning at the age of 49, the BBC reported."
Yes and they also made rivers of mercury.
Yeah. I posted it because he wanted eternal life with mercury and it actually did the opposite…
He saw them coming from a thousand years away.
They mention high mercury levels as a trap or from wine that the emperor drank, but neither is likely (they often used to add lead to wine as a sweetener, but not mercury AFAIK). But, mercury contamination in tombs, especially in Asia, is very common from the heavy use of the deep red pigment cinnabar, also called vermillion, which is mercury sulfide.
They mention that they think rivers were recreated in the tomb using mercury.
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I would absolutely think I just got cursed off I had opened the door to see that happen live
I was going to say “I doubt it was instantaneous”… but I stand corrected
"They suffered slow oxidation giving way to humid saturation due to groundwater seepage for 2,180 years, followed by rapid oxidation and dehydration in 1974 when the vaults were opened and exposed to the atmosphere. The color coating was severely damaged, then aged and peeled off…
Practically every warrior and horse was painted, but having been buried for more than 2,200 years the pigments were so old they began to change just 15 seconds after they were unearthed. Within four minutes the painting layers bound together by pigments became dehydrated, tilted and broke from the surface.”
Dude the emperor used to take his boat out on a lake of mercury.
Only the penitent man will pass.
Well, they definitely don’t need to worry about crossbows.
Well, there are still the other classics: Floors that drop away to unseen depths, swinging blades, large round boulders, mimics…
So just snakes then?
Snakes with crossbows.
Do they really think crossbows are still going to be under tension
Honestly, I would expect spike traps, those might be deadly indefinitely
Hehe booby
I think they are mostly afraid of the lake of mercury killing them when they open the door.
Fear of damaging the tomb, as mentioned near the end (archaeology is a destructive process in many cases, and there’s always new technology coming that could have told us more if we hadn’t disturbed something) is definitely a thing. I also think there’s a worry that it’s not what they think it is and there will be great disappointment. It’s not thought to have been looted in antiquity, but that also doesn’t mean it wasn’t.
