From the third episode, the inverted bucket team with Wu Xie as the core, under the banner of "treasure protection", started the first exploration of ancient tombs with medicines, knives, sleeping bags, tents, hemp ropes and shovels. This operation was attacked by various "monsters", which made the team face various dangers as soon as they entered the corpse hole. So, in real life, will robbery really encounter so many obstacles? What's the difference between grave robbery and archaeology?

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Wu Shundong, deputy director of Hunan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, told reporters that there are literary elements in film and television dramas, and occasional exaggeration is inevitable. However, robbery has existed since ancient times. It is a profit-seeking behavior that violates laws and regulations and must be severely punished. It has nothing to do with archaeology in essence. "Grave robbing is an active and spontaneous behavior, pursuing money and interests; Archaeology is a passive behavior with the purpose of protection and research. "

Wu Shundong said that grave robbers often choose the most direct tools. "Their purpose is to go down to the grave and take out valuable things, so they usually bring tools such as hoes and shovels for digging and breaking ground. Recently, even some grave robbers directly used gunpowder to blow up tombs, which was extremely destructive to tombs. But archaeology is a scientific exploration from outside to inside and from top to bottom, in order to better protect and study tombs and cultural relics. So when choosing tools, besides hoes and shovels for digging graves, we also need tools that can be used for detailed cleaning, including hand shovels, small brushes, tweezers, pliers and so on.

Professor Liu Su, a scholar of ancient architecture at Hunan University, also said that film and television plays are misleading to some viewers, and many people can't tell the difference between tomb raiding and archaeology. "Grave-robbing activities are active. They are not afraid of destruction, but only want to achieve their goals; Archaeology is passive, even if you know there is a tomb, you will not take the initiative to dig it. Unless this tomb is discovered or stolen by grave robbers, you will immediately carry out archaeological research and protection. This is an essential difference. "