The Battle of Changping (262-260 BCE) in ancient China, is infamous for being one of the bloodiest battles of antiquity, because several hundred thousand soldiers were buried alive. In fact so many people were killed, that the bones of the dead were used to make fertilizer in the 1970s [1000×1641]
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[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Changping](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Changping)
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slight Chinese skirmish be like
Using human remains as fertilizer, but the archaeological community goes up in arms if I so much as glance in the general direction of an arrowhead on the ground
I would not have expected bones 1800 years old to look that intact and well preserved. Is that normal?
The battle went on for 2 years? Or is that a range?
Grim
What evidence is there these bones are those of the soldiers killed during and after this battle? I looked at the Wikipedia link and the article, and they didn’t have any detail.
Fun Fact:
Losing a battle is one thing, but you have to be special kind of bad to get nearly ALL of your soldiers either killed or buried alive! That specially bad general is Zhao Kuo who commanded the losing side. He basically gave birth to the Chinese idiom “paper warfare”(紙上談兵) which basically mean “sounds good on paper but bad in practice”
That’s because the legend goes that he’s “appear” to be very knowledgeable about warfare and even beat his dad in chess constantly, but he failed spectacularly when he actually had to lead an army (aka, Intelligence does not equal Experience)