Excavating Cao Cao's grave, seeing a weapon lost for thousands of years, experts say: Treasure!

Experts excavating the tomb believed to belong to Cao Cao have found a strange weapon, which has been lost for thousands of years. What is that weapon that experts have to whisper the word "treasure"?

Cao Cao (155-220) was an outstanding military politician during the Three Kingdoms period (220-280). However, during his life, Cao Cao was famous for being cruel, suspicious, killing many people and doing many bad things, including digging graves to find gold and silver treasures to raise money for his army.

Since ancient times, grave robbers have always been hated by people. Regardless of dynasty and generation, the punishment for grave robbers was severe. However, during the chaotic Three Kingdoms period, although he digs many graves, including the tombs of the Han royal family, and obtained countless treasures, Cao Cao was not punished. Because he was able to control the emperor and hold the number 1 powerful military force in the Three Kingdoms period.

According to QQ News, after Cao Cao died, fearing retribution, he ordered his descendants to bury him in an extremely secret place. The mausoleum is not built to be superficial, magnificent or magnificent. It is also forbidden to leave valuable treasures inside the tomb to avoid thieves.

The tomb that is said to belong to Cao Cao does not have much gold and silver treasures.

According to China's QQ News site, it is said that when Cao Cao was alive, he ordered people to build 8 identical coffins for him. When he died, he left a legacy for his descendants to carry these 8 coffins to the 8 gates of the city and then bury them in 8 different secret locations so that no one knows exactly where his real grave is.

However, despite such thorough preparations, Cao Cao's tomb still cannot avoid the devout who come to dig and search for treasures.

In 2009, in Anyang city, Henan province, local archaeologists announced that they had found a mausoleum believed to belong to Cao Cao.

Although this mausoleum of Cao Cao has been visited by cultists, there are still more than 200 cultural relics found and excavated by archaeologists, including some extremely valuable relics, including a short spear that Cao Cao used to use.

The short spear found in the tomb is believed to belong to Cao Cao.

However, one particularly fascinating cultural relic, the most curious to be found in Cao Cao's tomb is a weapon known as the "simple", which is made of iron or copper. This weapon has been lost for thousands of years, and when it was found in Cao Cao's tomb, experts murmured endlessly that this was a "treasure" fruit.

A pair of "simple" - thousand-year-old lost weapons found in the tomb are believed to belong to Cao Cao. (QQ photo).

Simple weapon that looks like a spear but is shorter than a spear, often used in pairs.

Other than spears, which are melee weapons, a pair of simples are short, long-range weapons that function similarly to the javelins used in ancient Europe. Simply an extremely powerful and dangerous weapon, when launched, it can easily penetrate armor or shields and deal damage to opponents. This weapon is very convenient in battle.

However, the weakness of the simple is that they are very heavy, if not for a tall, muscular person with extraordinary health, it is difficult to use flexibly.

Moreover, the simple is a single-use weapon, throwing or launching is considered a loss, so the production cost of this weapon is very expensive.

Those weaknesses made it less common on the battlefield. Later, when the crossbow was increasingly improved, it gradually replaced the simple one, so this weapon also disappeared completely in the army.

However, thanks to the excavation of the tomb that is believed to belong to Cao Cao, the weapon that has been lost for thousands of years has once again reappeared before the eyes of posterity.