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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company
These were all, 100%, without exception, construction aids. Traps aimed at thieves and other infiltrators are basically all the product of modern adventure fiction, with the tiny exception of booby traps used in wartime over the past century or so, all of which have been made possible by modern technology.
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The tomb of the first Qin emperor was described by a contemporary as having automated crossbow traps to deter theives, but it's not clear that they ever worked