The Qin Mausoleum is the largest mausoleum in the history of China. It took 38 years to build, and more than 700,000 migrant workers were employed. The cemetery has a large scale and rich burial, which is rare in the world. The well-known pit of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses is not the core area of Qin Mausoleum. ?
It is understood that after more than 40 years of archaeological investigation and excavation research, archaeologists have discovered two nested large city walls, the inner city and the outer city. The inner area of the outer wall is about 2. 13 square kilometers, which constitutes the core area of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum. At present, the main sites and remains found are tombs, bronze chariot pits, sleeping halls, toilet halls, burial areas and rare birds. ?
According to reports, these important discoveries are just the tip of the iceberg of the Qin Mausoleum. Only within the outer city of Qin Mausoleum, there are 6,543,800+3,000 square meters without cultural relics exploration, of which about 300,000 square meters are covered by villages. Because the construction of the Qin Mausoleum went through two periods before and after the Qin Dynasty, the overall layout planning of the cemetery was not enough. Compared with the imperial tombs in the general sense, the scope of the Qin tombs
It not only includes the cemetery itself, but also extends beyond the cemetery, and its scope is beyond people's imagination again and again with new discoveries. ?
There are still many undiscovered cultural relics in the Qin Mausoleum. Yuan, honorary curator of the Qin Terracotta Warriors Museum and a famous archaeologist, judged that the area of the Qin Mausoleum should be centered on land closure, with a total area of about 56.25 square kilometers from east to west to Dongguan in Lintong District, from Weichi architectural site in the north to Lishan in the south. At present, the important sites in the outer city have been excavated and proved, including pits 1, 2 and 3 of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Tonghe Pit, Fish Pond Site, Stone Armor Processing Factory and a large number of architectural sites. From the analysis of the discovered sites, there should be a large number of relics underground, with an area of about 17.5 square kilometers, which is a cultural relic intensive area closely related to the core area of the mausoleum. However, due to the limited conditions, only a small part of the periphery of Qinling Mountain has been explored at present, and the situation of underground cultural relics is not completely clear. ?
Archaeological drilling data show that the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor has been damaged to a certain extent after more than 2,000 years of changes, but the foundations of the inner and outer city walls have been well preserved so far, and there is no sign of large-scale damage to the enclosure itself. Experts predict that there are still a large number of precious cultural relics left and buried on the ground and underground, and they have not been fundamentally damaged. According to relevant sources in the archaeological department, they plan to complete the exploration task of the Qin Mausoleum within five years, but it still depends on the specific situation. ?