{"id":158256,"date":"2026-10-02T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158256"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:00:07","slug":"online-claims-revive-mercury-mystery-around-tomb-of-first-chinese-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=158256","title":{"rendered":"Online claims revive mercury mystery around tomb of first Chinese emperor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOnline claims that archaeologists have identified the source of mercury in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang \u2013 China\u2019s first emperor, who unified the country more than 2,000 years ago \u2013 have revived interest in ancient cinnabar sites in northwestern China\u2019s Shaanxi province.<br \/>\nThe claims, which sent related hashtags trending on social media late last month, centred on three sites in Xunyang where archaeologists last year found evidence of cinnabar mining, processing and transport during the pre-Qin&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3369469\/online-claims-revive-mercury-mystery-around-tomb-first-chinese-emperor?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOnline claims that archaeologists have identified the source of mercury in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang \u2013 China\u2019s first emperor, who unified the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158256"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}