Master Archaeologist

Chapter 149
After spending a day, everyone from the Academy of Social Sciences cleared up all the funeral objects scattered in the tomb passage, and loaded them into a car and sent them to the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology for temporary storage.

Most of these funerary objects are pottery, which are daily necessities.

There are only a few kinds of bronze wares, except for two small bronze mirrors, two plaques and a belt hook, there are no other wares belonging to these two people.

Strictly speaking, those chariots and horses and ceremonial guards made of copper should belong to the owner of the tomb, not the two people who were martyred.

After completing the cleaning work in the tomb passage, Chen Han squatted in front of the vertical pit at the entrance of the tomb again.

Looking at the bottom of the pit that has been cleaned up and leveled.

Chen Han frowned, and said to Professor Li beside him, "Professor Li, I suspect that the filling soil used in this tomb should be severely acidic."

"Otherwise, normal filling would not corrode these funerary objects so badly."

The coffin hidden inside and outside the tomb passage, as well as the sacrificial coffin of the person at the entrance of the tomb passage, are corroded to an unbearable extent.

Any wooden things are basically corroded, and those wooden boxes are preserved only where the bottom cannot touch the fill.

The few bronze wares don't even look like "metal" at all, just like pieces of plaster, which will shatter if touched lightly.

This is obviously not normal.

Fenghuangshan Han Tombs, the age of the Han tombs over there spans from the early to the middle of the Western Han Dynasty. The earlier tombs are all from the period of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, which is earlier than the period of the Nanyue King's tomb.

But the coffins and utensils in the tomb over there are very well preserved.

Especially copper ware. As a relatively stable substance, copper is indeed very common to oxidize and rust, but it is very rare to become very fragile.

The bronze wares from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Western Zhou Dynasty were still hard when they were unearthed!

There is only one explanation for the current situation in the tomb passage.

The filling soil backfilling the tomb passage is highly acidic, and the low HP value accelerates the corrosion of these wood and copper utensils.

And those pottery, because they are not afraid of acid corrosion, are still in good condition.

However, Professor Li did not respond to Chen Han's speculation.

He didn't care whether the soil was acidic or not.

These things are all researched by the follow-up laboratory center, and have nothing to do with those who do front-line archaeology.

He just stared at the door of the tomb now.

After cleaning up all the vertical pits in front of the tomb gate, the tomb gate completely appeared in front of the archaeologists.

Because the tomb door was hit by backfilled boulders and the weight of the backfilled soil.

Now the upper shaft of the door has been broken, and the two door panels have tilted a little towards the room.

This led to a gap in the middle of the originally closed wooden door, which was enough for people to enter and exit.

Professor Li was looking in through this gap, and he kept shining with a flashlight.

Through the light of the flashlight, you can see that the copper utensils are placed in a corner of the front room.

Previously, colleagues from the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology had already clarified the structure and scale of this tomb.

The main reason is that this tomb is a stone chamber tomb, and the top of the tomb is capped with stone slabs.

The fill on the slate roof has been removed by site excavation.

From the area and position of the stone slabs, it can be seen that the tomb consists of seven parts.

The tomb is divided into two parts, the front and the back, and the construction area is measured to be [-] square meters.

The overall plane presents a "soil" shape.

The front chamber has three parts, namely the central front chamber, which is the small room behind the tomb door, and the two ear chambers on the left and right sides.

The rear has four sections.

The main coffin chamber is in the middle, and there are two side chambers on the left and right sides of the main coffin chamber, and there is a back storage room behind the main coffin chamber.

On the whole, the layout of this Nanyue king's tomb is similar to the tombs of high-ranking nobles in the Qin and Han Dynasties common in the Central Plains.

"Xiao Chen, otherwise the two of us will enter the front room sideways through this gap, and find out the distribution of the funerary objects in the front room and the east and west ear rooms."

"By the way, the big rock on the roof of the front room and the break and dislocation of the stone slabs on the roof of the east and west ear rooms are also recorded.

"Provide accurate information on the clean-up work plan for the front of the designated tomb and the preparations for taking risk-elimination and risk-prevention safety measures."

Professor Li eagerly pulled Chen Han, planning to sneak in through the gap in the tomb door.

Kong Jianwen, who had been watching the two of them from the sidelines, immediately became impatient, and grabbed Professor Li by the hand.

"I said, Lao Li, don't dare mess around with this matter!"

"If this stone slab collapses suddenly, you both have to explain it inside!"

This is not a joke.

It is unknown how many years these stone slabs used as support for the roof have been buried.

Moreover, the upper axis of the tomb door has been broken.

Take a hair and move your whole body.

Who can guarantee that when the two of them squeezed in through the gap in the tomb door, these topping stone slabs would not collapse due to this external extrusion.

Each of these stone slabs weighs at least one or two tons.

If it fell down, Chen Han and Professor Li would not have died on the spot, and it is estimated that they will not be able to bid farewell to the wheelchair for the rest of their lives.

"Old Kong, I'm not joking!" Professor Li frowned, and said with some dissatisfaction: "We must find out the condition of the stone slabs in the tomb, find out where the breaks and collapses are, and then take targeted measures to protect the roof. "

"In this way, our next excavation and cleaning work can be carried out smoothly!"

These capping stone slabs cannot be lifted and moved away right now.

Still the same sentence, one hair can move the whole body.

If it is not in the tomb, do some support and protection in advance, and then directly remove the capping stone slab.

That may remove one slab, and the other slabs will collapse immediately.

Once the tomb collapses.

Those funerary objects placed in the tomb would probably be smashed to pieces.

Therefore, in order for the subsequent excavation work to proceed smoothly, it is necessary to send people into the tomb to check the situation first, and then take targeted protective measures, and then remove the capping stone slab.

"Even if someone needs to go in to investigate, then you don't need to go in person." Kong Jianwen slapped his thigh, still not obeying Professor Li.

Professor Li glanced sideways at Chen Han, waved his hand and said, "I have the most experience, so I must be the one to do it. Let those young people go. If a few broken places are missed, it will be a bad thing."

"How about this, Xiao Chen doesn't need to go in with me, I can go alone."

He guessed that Kong Jianwen didn't want to let Chen Han go in with him, after all, this was his favorite disciple, so dear.

"That's not okay!" But Kong Jianwen still had a disapproving expression on his face. He didn't think it was because of Chen Han, but because he really felt that Professor Li's behavior was too dangerous.

And Chen Han didn't agree anymore. He puffed up his chest and said firmly, "Professor Li, let me go in with you. I'm young and strong, and I can help you!"

"No matter how bad it is, even if the stone slab collapses, I'm strong enough to push it up!"

Seeing that they couldn't persuade them, Kong Jianwen sighed, shrugged his shoulders, and didn't bother to persuade them any more.

"Go, go, bring the camera, and take pictures of the situation inside as much as possible, so that we can do targeted risk elimination and prevention later."

Professor Li and Chen Han looked at each other and smiled.

After receiving a camera from Zhuang Yunpeng, the two of them leaned sideways one after the other, and got in through the gap in the middle of the tomb door.

　From the latest update time, everyone should be able to see that my schedule is messed up again.

　　So in order to be able to update normally, you need to adjust your work and rest, and you can't go in a vicious circle.

　　Go to bed early tonight, and I will update after getting up at [-] noon tomorrow!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)