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Redditors describe real life instances of still working booby traps that have been set off at histor
- mysterious world
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min read
r/more_beans_mrtaggar There was an Egyptian tomb where a corridor went downhill by about 60 feet, and then uphill again. The engineers put dead animals and fresh plants etc in there before they sealed it up. And so the decline/ depression filled with CO2. It stayed like that for centuries. In modern times, when they unearthed the tomb, they found human skeletons centuries younger than the tomb, where people had died trying to get in.
r/power-cube Found this post by u/KnightIT in an old r/history archived thread: The answer is, shockingly enough, yes; archaelogist have found booby traps in tombs all over the world meaning that they were not limited to a single culture either and with a little bit of researching you may find countless examples of traps set into tombs. Obviously we’re not talking of the “giant boulder of death that rolls along the path narrowly avoiding killing you” type of traps but according to certain professor Qin Shi Huang fitted his tomb with automatic crossbow very similar to the one we see in “The Mummy tomb of the Dragon Emperor” Here’s an article to begin your research, have fun discovering how clever (and cruel) our ancestors were http://amidtheruins.com/top-10-real-life-trapped-tombs -temples-and-treasures/
r/hedgster Valley of the kings has a stair well in one of the tombs where they purposely made the stairwell steep and purposely made steps at odd heights to throw someone’s balance off allowing them to tumble down the stair well and at the bottom is a deep put so they break a limb and are stuck with no way out.
r/Hoof_Hearted I saw a YouTube video many years ago that I haven’t been able to find since and the details are murky, but I remember the gist of it was that there was a tunnel system under a German city that the Nazis used to stash some of their gold (allegedly). It was mentioned that these tunnels were likely boobytrapped and the German government didn’t want archaeologists messing with a site that was likely wired with bombs in an actual city. I’ve tried to find it again, but all that comes up is the Nazi gold train craze that wound up yielding nothing.
r/No-Bewt not a booby trap but, in Tutankhamun’s tomb, when it was first actually opened and Howard Carter put his head inside, the entire place had vases with perfectly dried and preserved flowers and reeds… that, as soon as the relatively hot and moist air outside blew in, completely disintegrated.
r/OXD153A53 – While not likely intentionally a booby trap, the use of mercury in the mausoleum of the first emperor of China would’ve been particularly toxic.
r/SirSureSire Sort of similar but not really, a lot of “cursed objects” that have been uncovered throughout history we’re really just carrying deadly mold or bacteria that killed the people who took possession of the objects.
r/alexlongfur Off the top of my head, know some tombs in South America have cinnabar sprinkled in them. No clue anyone has died from it though Edit: TIL y’all are reading this as Cinnabon and not mercury sulfide crystals
r/WhichSpirit I can’t think of any traps but archaeologists getting killed or injured on site is not as uncommon as it should be. Personally, I was temporarily blinded on my last dig before leaving the field. We also have a lot of fun stories too. If you find an archaeologist, buy them a drink and you’ll have a lot of fun.
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