00:00Archaeologists in China were excavating a previously unexamined tomb within the mausoleum
00:04of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.
00:06Most of us probably know it because it's the mausoleum that contains the famous terracotta
00:10warriors.
00:11When they were looking in this very fragile tomb, they found that it had been untouched
00:15by grave robbers.
00:17That meant they were able to locate inside of it a 16-ton casket full of treasure that
00:22may have belonged to a prince.
00:25That's right, they don't know for a fact who was inside this tomb, but they referred
00:29to a 2,000-year-old document called the Shiji, which told the story of Emperor Qin Shi Huang
00:34and his descendants.
00:35In this story, they talk about a prince known as Prince Gao who wanted upon his death to
00:41be interred within his father's mausoleum.
00:44Considering that this treasure indicates a noble warrior had died and was buried in that
00:49tomb, there's a good chance that they actually proved a story in the Shiji is true.
00:55Next up, can they prove that the Mummy 3 Tomb of the Dragon Emperor actually happened?
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