Mo Cao Cao - Archaeological conclusion can change!

Late afternoon yesterday, January 15, at a seminar on the subject of 'Mo Cao Cao' at Peking University, archaeologist Professor Wang Xun said: Archaeological conclusions may change if they appear. Falsifying factors, expectations of Cao Cao's grave should not be too high, because excavated documents are indeed too few.

Stone steles found in the grave area (left photo);Local people are buzzing about the event;Artifacts are taken into consideration during the workshop;Site of the grave site (right photos)

After having the 'confirmation of the Grave of the Grave' information from the Henan Provincial Bureau of Culture, Mr. Wang Xun was always invited to comment on evidence and news regarding this event at Peking University. Wang Xun and other archaeologists appeared on television to discuss the 'puppet legs' (fake) of Cao Cao's grave.

In the talk, Professor Wang Xun recognized the grounds to conclude 'The tomb in An Duong is Cao Cao's grave', he also humorously mentioned the issue of 'Cao Cao scramble' in Hebei province. He said, many people think that archeology is an area no one cares about, I don't see right. The evidence is that the event of finding Cao Cao grave is an example, everyone wants to participate in the discussion, the words of the archaeologists say are also dissected. Concern is good, but it does make the archaeologists sometimes frustrated. Why do not many people doubt the tomb of Qin Shi Huang? Strange.

For the matter of determining the relative of a woman whose bones were found beside Cao Cao, Wang Xun said that, from an academic perspective, this is not an important issue. Academic research does not care which bone is the first wife, which is the wife of the second wife. The thing is, bone test has a certain support, cannot judge the bones of 30-year-old people to be over 60 years old. He explained: the bigger the tomb, the better it is not to preserve the remains. For example, a large aristocratic grave so the air is very much, the preserved remains will be different from the bones of civilians, more likely to be itemized. In addition, the remains of elderly people will not be preserved well under the same conditions as the remains of young people.

So now, how is 'confirming Cao Cao's grave' worth? If there are any conclusions, does archeology have corrective mechanisms? Prof. Wang Xun replied: The archeological conclusion is also wrong. In addition, he stressed: the expectation of Cao Cao grave should not be too high, because the documents collected are too few. Cao Cao's tomb in An Duong has attracted great attention from the public, but from an academic perspective, the meaning added to history is not as big as other big grave findings.

In any case, this event has reached the Top 6 largest archaeological findings in 2009, recently published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

After Cao Cao's grave was confirmed, immediately, China rose to the wave of receiving Cao Cao's descendants.

An elderly man from Shanghai rushed to Cao Cao burial site, claiming to be the descendant of Cao Cao, coming to receive the 'grave'. Local people also said that a lot of people from Hebei came to "receive themselves", all claiming to be Cao's great-grandchildren.

Recorded, the Three Kingdoms hero has at least 15 beautiful wives like flowers. The concubine was so crowded, it was difficult to enumerate Cao Cao's descendants.