PassingDuchy@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Archaeologists are too scared to open the tomb of China's first emperor because they fear booby trapsEnglish
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1 year agoFaik the worry isn’t from wine the emperor drank (though I think the consensus is he did take a hell of a lot of mercury as medicine believing it’d give immortality). It’s the described artistic floor map of China (at the time) with the rivers of liquid mercury suggested as being real by the high mercury readings.
It’s not the kraft variety.