Mr. Guo Moruo advocated that the tomb excavated was not Ganling, but Li Xian, the prince of Tang Zhongzong, because he mistakenly thought it was Li Xian's tomb and bet with the wife of the mayor of Beijing, so he excavated it.
After Ganling was discovered in 1970s, it was planned to be excavated. However, because the Ming Tombs were just excavated at that time, it was not very successful, and many precious cultural relics were destroyed by oxidation. Because there is no better anti-oxidation measures, Ganling has been excavated to this day.