In 2008, archaeologists got a chance to crack a tomb from the Ming dynasty in Shangsi, Southern China. They were the first ones to visit the grave since the occupants funeral.
They'd brought a camera crew to create a documentary as they excavated the tomb. But while they were filming they found something much weirder.
When the were trying to remove the soil encrusting the coffin, a chunk broke off and hit the floor with a metallic clink.
They picked up the object and discovered it was a ring. But not just any ring.
The removed the dirt from the ring and it turned out to actually be a watch. A Swiss watch that had stopped at 10:06 am.
The watch itself was estimated to be 100 years old, buried in a tomb over 400 years old. Watches weren't even invented in the time of the Ming dynasty, and Switzerland wasn't even a country.
So how did this mysterious timepiece find it's way inside an undisturbed tomb?
Thoughts? Theories? Throw them my way!
They'd brought a camera crew to create a documentary as they excavated the tomb. But while they were filming they found something much weirder.
When the were trying to remove the soil encrusting the coffin, a chunk broke off and hit the floor with a metallic clink.
They picked up the object and discovered it was a ring. But not just any ring.
The removed the dirt from the ring and it turned out to actually be a watch. A Swiss watch that had stopped at 10:06 am.
The watch itself was estimated to be 100 years old, buried in a tomb over 400 years old. Watches weren't even invented in the time of the Ming dynasty, and Switzerland wasn't even a country.
So how did this mysterious timepiece find it's way inside an undisturbed tomb?
Thoughts? Theories? Throw them my way!
9 comments:
Obviously someone disturbed it!
Doctor Who?
This is weird. For some reason I thought I had read this post on your blog before.
Maybe I'm time-traveling too. :)
Presumably, someone got into that tomb before this group, and just did a really good job of making it look like they hadn't.
I'm also amazed that there are apparently ring-sized Swiss watches out there, in Chinese tombs or not.
yikes. Well I guess someone got there first. there were ethical anthropologists 100 years ago.
Oooh, love stories like this! I hope you are doing wonderfully, my friend!
Time Lord companion? I bet it was!!! Though more likely, it was a treasure hunter who was somehow there later, I think.
It's a hoax. One of the archeologists planted it imo.
Me thinks it was disturbed. ;)
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