by CaTigeReptile » Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:25 pm
I'm inclined to think that that the "bury me in a modest tomb" thing is more likely to have just been a duly pious request not meant to be taken seriously than I am that Cao Pi went against his dear father's dying wishes, so the lavishness of the tomb doesn't make me skeptical. I think it's really incredible that there were remains, and the age matched up with Cao Cao, and there was a young man who also matched up, but given the eagerness with which local archaeologists are wont to claim that their pet gravesite is someone extremely famous whose museum would bring in a lot of money to the local area (such as what happened with the other Cao Cao (Cao Huan's) tomb), I'm inclined to wait for scholarly rebuttals to this claim first. What I want to know is . . . are there artifacts?!?
Also inclined to say that they should be looking for the mural of Yu Jin, but it's too soon for that joke