Excavating a thousand-year-old ancient tomb, stunned to discover 68 anomalous braids

During the excavation of ancient tombs related to the Xiongnu, experts discovered 68 large braids. From here, the creepy secret is revealed.

In the 1920s, archaeologists unearthed many ancient tombs related to the Xiongnu in Mongolia and Xinjiang, China. Among these, they especially paid attention to a relic discovered during the excavation of an ancient tomb.

The Xiongnu use drinking cups made of skulls, which scares many people. (Illustration).

Specifically, inside that thousand-year-old ancient tomb, experts found a lot of valuable burial items such as gold and silver treasures. However, because the tomb does not have any epitaphs or names carved on the artifacts, the researchers cannot determine the identity of the owner of the ancient tomb. However, experts were startled when they found the object in the ancient tomb. That's 68 large braids that are pretty much intact.

According to experts, these braids all belong to women. From here, they speculated, these women were most likely victims in the sacrifice ceremony for the owner of the tomb after this person died. Research results of experts also show that these women are all prisoners of war of the Xiongnu. On the bodies of these people there are cuts in their throats indicating that they had a painful death.

The Xiongnu have a custom of not using women in the tribe to bury the dead with the dead. Instead, they used prisoners captured from neighboring areas, neighboring tribes. Therefore, most of the victims were brutally murdered by the Xiongnu during the sacrifice ceremony to go to the afterlife with the dead Han Chinese. Others come from the western regions.

When excavating the tomb, experts also found a skull used as a drinking cup. Instead of drinking from cups, the Xiongnu prefer to use wine cups made from human skulls. According to records in the "History of the Xiongnu", after defeating their enemy, Nguyet Chi, the Xiongnu took the king's skull as a drinking cup. From here, the secret of the Xiongnu has a tradition of taking the heads of their enemies after destroying them in wars. Next, they used that skull as a drinking cup, which scared many people.