Many times, the location of the tomb is deliberately kept secret. For example, the Soviets removed all traces of the cemetery of the leaders of the Third Reich to ensure that fascists would not flock there to celebrate the death of the head of state. Conquerors such as Genghis Khan and Attila, king of Xiongnu, deliberately kept their burial places secret and even killed any witnesses. For centuries, efforts to find Genghis Khan's mausoleum have failed.
In other cases, graves will disappear over time. The mausoleum of Alexander the Great was once revered until it was covered by natural disasters. Similarly, the cemetery of Leonardo da Vinci in France attracted tourists for centuries until the French Revolution.
Alexander the Great conquered Persia, the Near East and Egypt in 12 years for his Greek empire. He died in 323 BC at the age of 32. Although his mausoleum was very popular with tourists 2000 years ago, its location is still unknown.
After Alexander's death, he was first buried in Memphis, Egypt, where he called himself Pharaoh. (Contrary to Alexander's claim that he wanted to be buried in Shiva in western Egypt, his body was taken away by Ptolemy I Soter, one of his potential heirs, to seek legitimacy. Later, his body was transferred to Alexandria, a city named after the conqueror, and later became the largest metropolis in the Greek world. The mausoleum has become an almost sacred place and is regarded as a temple by tourists. Julius Caesar visited this mausoleum in 48-47 BC.
Hundreds of years after Alexander's death, a tsunami swept through Alexandria. Then, the sea level began to rise. The residents of Alexandria only built houses on ancient ruins to improve the level of the city. As a result, Alexander's mausoleum has been lost for centuries.
Today, in order to find Alexander's mausoleum, 140 excavations have been carried out, but so far, no one has found the conqueror's final resting place.
Genghis Khan was the largest land empire in history at that time, extending from the Pacific Ocean to the Caspian Sea. But after his death, Khan asked for a secret burial.
After Genghis Khan died in 1227, an army transported his body back to the hinterland of Mongolia. It is understood that in order to cover up the secret of the conqueror's grave, they killed everyone they met along the way. After burying Genghis Khan's body, they trampled on the ground with 1000 horses to eliminate any clues about the burial place.
In the 800 years after Genghis Khan's death, many people searched for his grave. One project even used satellite images to locate ancient tombs. But historical records make the already difficult search more difficult. The story of horseshoe trampling on the cemetery suggests that it is a flat plain, but Genghis Khan vowed to be buried on a mountain.
Most importantly, Mongolians regard search as taboo. "If they want us to find it, they will leave some signs," said Mongolian translator Yulun.
In the 5th century AD, Attila, a Hun, led an army to rob the Roman Empire. After winning the whole of Europe, Attila died at her wedding reception.
It is understood that the Xiongnu army cut off their hair, cut off their cheeks and mourned their dead leader with their own blood. After a day of mourning, the Huns buried Attila with three coffins: an iron coffin, a silver coffin and a gold coffin. They diverted to bury Attila's three coffins in the river bed, and then let the river flow through the cemetery.
Not only that, it is understood that Attila's men killed all the people who attended the funeral in order to keep a secret.
In 20 14, construction workers in Budapest claimed that they had found Attila's grave. When they were digging the foundation for a bridge on the Danube, they found a room with human and horse bones, jewels, tactical equipment and a huge sword. But the story was soon proved to be a scam.
Hawaiian proverb says that no one will find the tomb of King Kamehameha. "Only the morning star knows where Kamehameha's bones are guarded," the proverb says.
This is because after the death of the first king of Hawaii in 18 19, two advisers of the king hid the body of Kamihamiha. It is said that they put the king's body in a secret cave. Only 20 years later, a historian lamented that "the hiding place of Kamihamiha's body is still a huge secret"-the same situation still exists for nearly two centuries.
/kloc-At the end of 0/9, a royal heir of Kamihamiha tried to find the king's grave. King David Calaque managed to find a secret burial cave, where he found two skeletons. The king transported the two bones to the royal mausoleum, but no one knew whether they really belonged to Kamehameha.
1922, the tomb of King Tutankhamun was discovered, which was full of wealth, which inspired generations of archaeologists and treasure hunters to look for other Egyptian tomb sites.
But in 2020, archaeologists realized that the location of a famous Egyptian tomb might be in the tomb of King Tutankhamun. When using radar to investigate the tomb, scholars discovered the secret room that may contain the tomb of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt.
Nefertiti is closely related to King Tutankhamun-her daughter married Tutankhamun and became his mother-in-law. Nefertiti's grave has never been found since her death in14th century BC. But it may contain a historical mystery. Does Nefertiti rule Egypt as a Pharaoh? Her grave has always been thought to be located in the Valley of the Kings.
From the beginning, this is a doomed love story. Marc anthony fled the war in Rome and fell in love with Cleopatra, the Egyptian ruler. But Octavian, the couple's enemy, soon discovered them.
In 30 BC, Octavian's army arrived in Egypt, forcing Anthony and Cleopatra to commit suicide. According to a Roman historian, Octavian "allowed them to be buried in the same grave with dignity and ordered that the mausoleum they started to build must be completed." Another historian, Plutarch, added that the future Emperor Augustus said that Cleopatra's body "should be buried with Anthony's body in a gorgeous and imperial way."
These clues suggest a luxurious cemetery, but they have not been found so far.
In the early decades of Roman rule in Britain, Budika led an army against the Romans. She thought the Romans would treat the islanders like slaves and take away the throne she planned to pass on to her daughters.
The Celtic queen frightened the Romans, and one of them wrote, "She is tall, terrible-looking, with fierce eyes and harsh voice."
After burning London in 60 AD, Budika retreated and fled to the north, where he died. The Romans claimed that Budika was buried in a tomb full of wealth, but her burial place has never been found.
Rumor has it that Budika's grave is located under a platform at King's Cross Station in London. Archaeologist Richard Xinli said: "It is unlikely that there will be a burial monument in Budika."
The great king Alfred unified England and repelled the Danish invasion. He is the only king in England who is called a "great man".
Alfred died in the 9th century. His body has been moved several times since then. The king's body was first buried in Winchester in 899. In 904, it was moved to another church and buried next to his home. Then, in 1 100, the king's tomb was moved to Hyde Abbey. But when Henry VIII broke with Rome, the monastery was ransacked and the mausoleum was ransacked. Some people claimed that Alfred's tomb was finally moved to a new location in St. bartholomew's parish church.
The location of Alfred's tomb has been lost for centuries. Generations have been looking for the king's grave, and the Winchester City Council even commissioned an excavation. But they only found a human bone in one possible place, and it belonged to a woman.
Another theory holds that the construction of Hyde Abbey in the19th century may have scattered the king's bones, which means that these bones will never be restored.
1945, the leader of the Third Reich committed suicide in an underground bunker in Berlin. His faithful followers then burned his body. But when the Soviet Union invaded Berlin on May 5th, they found the bodies of the leader and his wife eva braun. The next month, the Soviets hid the body in a forest in Germany. The next year, they dug up the body and transported it to an army station.
Since then, the KGB has taken over everything. 1970, the Soviet army dug up Hitler's body before giving up the station. Then, according to a secret KGB document, "these remains were burned to ashes on a bonfire outside the town of Shunibek, which is about 1 km away from magdeburg1/Kloc-0, and were finally collected and thrown into the Bedritz River."
The KGB deliberately concealed all the evidence of burying the leader. They want to make sure that his grave will never become a gathering place for fascists.
1976, the mysterious obelisk was discovered in Hudson River village in northern new york. The tombstone reads "In memory of Thomas Paine". But does this stone mark the final resting place of the author of Common Sense?
1809 When Paine died, he had few friends on both sides of the Atlantic. Ten years later, william cobbett dug up Paine's body in the United States. Cobbett used to be Paine's enemy, but now he has become his admirer. He vowed to send Paine back to England in 18 19. But the British laughed at Cobbett and refused to bury Paine.
Byron commemorated this scene in a poem:
When Cobbett died on 1835, he still kept Paine's bones-these bones were regarded as family heirlooms by several people before they disappeared. Paine's bones may be found one day, but they are not under the obelisk in Hudson Valley.
After painting Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci moved to France to work for King Francis I. After Leonardo died, the French buried him in a small church in the Loire Valley.
But during the French Revolution, a group of revolutionaries destroyed the church. Later, fans of the Renaissance artist moved his body to a smaller church.
Today, scientists want to do DNA tests on these remains to determine whether they really belong to Leonardo da Vinci. But the artist has never had children, which brings a major problem to scientists. In 20 16, Alessandro Vizosi and Agnes Sabato confirmed the descendants of Leonardo da Vinci's half-brother. They plan to compare modern DNA with a strand of hair that may have come from Leonardo da Vinci.
Sabato announced: "From a scientific point of view, this relic is just what we need, and it can make our historical research more solid." "We plan to analyze the DNA of this relic and compare it with the living descendants of Da Vinci and the bones found in Da Vinci's tomb that we have confirmed in the past few years."
Mozart died in Vienna at the age of 35-he was buried in a poor man's grave. Not only that, at least four or five bodies were buried with the composer.
In the decades after the composer 179 1 died, few people even knew the location of his grave in Vienna's Saint Kyle Cemetery.
But to some extent, a grave digger who knew the location took Mozart's skull-at least in several stories. By 1902, the skull was placed in Mozart Concert Hall in Salzburg. In 2006, scientists tested the skull to determine whether it belonged to the composer. However, like the early tests, the results are still inconclusive. The exact location of Mozart's remains may never be determined.