Questa volta abbiamo cercato: Have any real-life archeologists ever found a still-working boobie trap in an old tomb or temple like an Indiana Jones movie?
Have any real-life archeologists ever found a still-working boobie trap in an old tomb or temple like an Indiana Jones movie?
Ed ecco le risposte:
No, Those things didn’t actually exist like in the movies. Most traps would be things like false paths or stones that you couldn’t moves, or drop-offs. Stuff like that even if they did exist, wouldn’t last without constant maintenance by priests keeping the tombs in order.
The people trying to prevent grave robbing would use concealment more than anything or preying on superstition to hide valuables. Those had various amounts of success
Not real working but I do know there was one Chinese emperor who had himself entombed with tons of booby traps including a lake of mercury and a bunch of wired crossbows; however the wood of the crossbows rotted in the several millennia since his burial and our unearthing him.
” Craftsmen were ordered to make crossbows and arrows primed to shoot at anyone who enters the tomb. Mercury was used to simulate the hundred rivers, the Yangtze and Yellow River, and the great sea, and set to flow mechanically. ”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum_of_the_First_Qin_Emperor
Not an archeologist, but a paramedic. I’ve been to abandoned houses used as crack dens that were boobie trapped. False step in the middle of stairs to second floor, false floor boards around entrances, and a 5 gallon bucket full of oil and glass shards at the top of the stairs that we could only imagine was for slowing down anyone trying to get up there.
That is a question I have never thought of and I’m really glad you have
My five year old leaves new trails of sharp Legos, does that count?
I’m joking. I have no family.