If all the architects and the people who buried the Emperor Qin Shihuang were killed to prevent the knowledge of how to get in from ever leaking out to the public, how trustworthy are the legends and writings that describe the booby traps and the Mercury rivers? Knowing that the tomb will not be opened for a while, have archeologists and historians used other ways to try to map the tomb?
Wasn't the mausoleum buried underneath a giant mound?