On the second day, the archaeological excavation of the thousand-year-old tomb in the bonded area continued! Because the underground palace in the ancient tomb has been opened, the next step is for the archaeologists to go in and face those rare treasures directly. Now, the air in the underground palace is completely convected with the outside world, and it will no longer cause harm to people, but the air is always threatening the treasures in the underground palace. Back then, priceless cultural relics such as the terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, the murals and scriptures in the Dunhuang scripture cave were all oxidized, faded, deformed or even disappeared within a short period of time after encountering air. Now, all this is still happening repeatedly, because it cannot be eliminated according to the current level of technology. So the current Professor Wang is still a bit psychologically shadowed when he is excited, because he has also encountered such a failure before. What kind of mood does it feel to watch the priceless cultural relics disappear or be destroyed
Now everyone knows that there are countless treasures in the thousand-year-old tomb, so the level of protection has been strengthened again. This time, Liu Yihua, as a security guard, led several soldiers to accompany Zhang Kai to carry out archaeological excavation work together with the archaeological team.
Seeing Professor Wang worrying about gains and losses, Liu Yihua said: "Professor Wang, I don't think there are any cultural relics of silk and wood products in here. etc. The things left inside are gold, silver or jade, these things should not be afraid of oxidation, right?" Liu Yihua has been listening to the archaeological team's oxidation of his cultural relics just now.
Professor Wang nodded and said: "There are definitely a lot of good things here. We still don't know whether there are cultural relics that are afraid of oxidation. But we still have to make full preparations. To be honest, I am still quite worried, which means There have been many incidents of cultural relics being damaged before.”
Liu Yihua asked curiously: "Could it be that the oxidation of cultural relics is really so severe? Before this, I only read some materials, but never saw it with my own eyes." For ordinary people, there is no chance to see the process of oxidation and damage of cultural relics with their own eyes.
Professor Wang said sadly: "Current science can't find a level that can completely ensure that the cultural relics will not be damaged. I remember one time we were digging up the tomb of a Ming Dynasty vassal king, and then we saw the angry man inside. It happened that day It was snowing, and we saw a stone altar inside. In addition to the five offerings on the altar, there were two boxes, a stone box, and a wooden box inlaid with gold. The stone box was okay, but the wooden one There is a problem with the box. The wooden box looked very good at the time, but because it was not cleaned and protected in time, and the air had been ventilated, when we officially cleaned it, we found that the box had begun to deform! Lacquer wood Once the class is deformed, it can never be restored, and the box has been deformed and cannot be repaired. I was really sad."
Professor Wang shook his head and continued: "Not only is the wooden box deformed, but other things are also changing. There is a layer of silk on the box, and a dragon is embroidered on it. You will not be able to protect it when the time comes. Silk products are not well preserved. When we processed them, we found that the entire dragon on the box was deformed and the silk was damaged. Such a precious work of art was basically damaged. So this matter is in the My heart has always been a shadow, but according to current science, there is still no way to avoid the oxidation and damage of cultural relics. We can only do our best."
At this time, the big guy has already entered the bottom, Professor Wang pointed to the mud in front and said: "It is no exaggeration to say that the treasures in this tomb now may be more than the cultural relics that many archaeologists have 'touched' in their lifetime! Gold, silver and jewels have to be found just on the surface of the silt. Who knows how thick this layer of silt is? Who knows how many treasures are buried in it?"
After Professor Wang finished speaking, he asked everyone to get ready for the formal excavation work. For such an important excavation, the pressure on Professor Wang can be imagined. Will Professor Wang repeat the same mistakes and come across some cultural relics that are difficult to protect? No one knows at this time, even he himself is not fully sure. But one thing is for sure, if he fails this time, it will be the greatest shame in Professor Wang's lifetime archaeological career, because this excavation is the dream of many archaeologists, and it is likely to be the last one they experience before retirement. big tomb! You must know that Professor Wang is over 60 years old this year. Of course, Professor Wang has already made full psychological preparations. No matter how difficult it is, the core of this treasure hunting operation is the work of searching for treasures must begin.
Finally, Professor Wang took a deep breath and said that the excavation work has officially started. However, when the archaeological team was about to clean up the back room of the underground palace, where the body of the owner of the tomb and all the treasures were kept, Professor Wang suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon—the middle of the tomb should be a coffin bed, but this ancient tomb is not. The one in the middle is the west wall. Why is this? If it is a double burial, then the entire coffin bed must be centered no matter how many people are placed, and it will be in the middle instead of one leaning against the wall. This is clearly out of line.
"How could this be?" The other archaeologists obviously also discovered this problem. Even Liu Yihua felt that this was a bit unbelievable. In ancient times, such royal tombs should have many rules. How could it be possible that another person was buried against the wall next to the owner
At first, Professor Wang wondered if his eyes were blurred? How can such a royal tomb have two coffin beds that are not coordinated? Is this a special form of joint burial? However, after thinking about it, Professor Wang couldn't think of any dynasty or generation in our country that would have such a bizarre way of joint burial.
"Professor, is this a joint burial?" Liu Yihua still asked curiously.
Professor Wang was not sure: "It seems not. It may be. But it seems that this ancient tomb was not a tomb for joint burials when it was designed. You can see that the structure is different. This is a typical structure of a single burial tomb. But the ancient tomb How could there be two coffin beds in the tomb? You see, the stone coffin bed is the owner of the tomb, because the outer and outer coffins are placed in the middle, and the space in the middle is limited, so there is no way to place another coffin bed. This at least shows that this was not a joint burial tomb when it was originally designed."
Liu Yihua nodded and said: "Yeah. It doesn't look like it either. But why are there two coffins? Is this poor coffin leaning against the wall buried with you?"
Professor Wang shook his head and said, "No. Now I think the coffin bed next to the wall should have been added later." At this time, my professor suddenly remembered the golden hairpin that Liu Yihua picked up when he just stepped into the underground palace. Will there be a woman buried here? Could this coffin bed leaning against the wall be someone like a concubine
Liu Yihua looked around with a flashlight, and suddenly said: "What is that? A stone tablet? There will be a stone tablet in the tomb? There should be words on it, right?"
Professor Wang looked excitedly and said: "Yes! There must be! I saw it here! It seems that this stele is very important to solve some mysterious phenomena in this ancient tomb. Hurry up and wash it with water..."
Next, the big guys rushed to wash out the stele. The lights of the CCTV cameras were brighter, and the lens of the TV camera was also aimed at the stele to shoot. The above fonts are all in traditional Chinese characters, which many people cannot understand. Of course, there is no archaeological expert Professor Wang for these words.
Professor Wang gently explained the records on the stele to everyone. It turned out that there was a touching story in it: the emperor of a dynasty passed away, and the imperial concubine had to be buried alive. But the newly appointed emperor disagreed, and comforted his sister-in-law to live well. The new emperor is the uncle of the old emperor, and has always been very cautious about this sister-in-law.
In this way, the concubine of the old emperor slowly recovered her emotions and continued to live. However, she remained depressed and died within ten years. Before she dies, she must be buried with the first emperor. This will be troublesome! Because the former emperor loved this imperial concubine very much, he deliberately built a single tomb, where his beloved concubine was buried with him. What should we do now? The large stone gate of this ancient tomb palace had been firmly sealed ten years before the death of the imperial concubine, making it impossible to enter. But now the concubine must be buried together! This question plagued the new emperor.
In order to let the body of the imperial concubine enter the underground palace, people must open the pair of stone gates of the underground palace. But the gate of the underground palace has been closed since the first emperor was placed in it. Use a large stone strip to press tightly on the middle of the two stone doors from the inside. Therefore, it was impossible for people at that time to push open the stone door with huge stone strips to withstand it from the outside. In order to send the imperial concubine's body into the underground palace, people at that time could only use a huge impact to smash half of the stone gate. The final result was that the stone gate was smashed and the natural stone fell down. So today we can only see the remaining stone gate of this underground palace. At that time, in order to keep the tomb clean and tidy, the new emperor asked people to clean up the broken stones out of the underground palace. This is why we can't see the stone gate or the fragments of the stone gate today.
What to do after the door is smashed, can't you use one to break the door? Everyone removed the stone bar and the stone door, and replaced it with a lacquered wooden door. It is impossible for a majestic emperor's underground palace to have a gate, but due to limited space, it is impossible to rebuild a stone gate, and only a wooden gate can be used instead. It's just that with the passage of time, when the current archaeological team came in, this kind of wooden door had already rotted and disappeared.
Professor Wang immediately asked people to carefully find some fragments of wooden doors underground. The wooden door has a certain thickness, and there are handles, locks, and such thick boards... Although the department is rotten now, there should be still the foam nails and the components on the door. Then everyone found these things, and there was indeed a wooden door on the front.
At this time, everyone will understand why there are two coffins and why they are arranged in this way. Because although the body of the imperial concubine entered the underground palace, the following problems were even more distressing to the people at that time, because the design of the solitary burial tomb had only one coffin bed, and there was no place for the imperial concubine's coffin to be placed. What should I do? There is no place inside, and the coffin bed of the first emperor is designed in the center, so what should the imperial concubine do if she wants to go in? There is no way but to build a shop. This is also impossible.
If there is no tombstone as evidence, no one would have thought that the underground palace of the former emperor of this dynasty would be opened again destructively ten years after the death of the owner. In any case, the wish of the first emperor and his wife to reunite was finally fulfilled.
Now, Professor Wang and the archaeological team can finally breathe a sigh of relief, because they finally figured out the mystery of the mysterious towel and the disappearance of the stone gate for no reason. Now, they felt extremely excited in their hearts, because it can be said with certainty that the tomb robbers have never successfully entered this thousand-year-old tomb!
Liu Yihua was puzzled and said, "Professor Wang, there doesn't seem to be any dynasty mentioned on this stele? The first emperor... Who is it?"
Professor Wang said with a smile: "I really don't know about this. It may be that the emperor still pays attention to secrecy and dare not leak it on purpose."
"So how could such an emperor have so many treasures? It can't be that the entire national treasury was buried with him, right?" Liu Yihua felt that there were too many gold, silver and jewels in it. The gold glint in the muck under this bright light now is very shocking.
Professor Wang shook his head and said: "I'm not sure about this. There is also this possibility. After all, there is no particularly powerful and wealthy dynasty in the history of the south of our country. No matter, let's clean it up first. The treasures inside are really dazzling. Dazzling."
After Professor Wang finished speaking, he immediately organized people to sort it out. The archaeological team is very cautious. After nearly a thousand years, all cultural relics have adapted to the conditions in the ancient tomb, and the underground palace was flooded before it was opened. Come out, and ensure the safety of cultural relics to the greatest extent.
This is the final ordeal. Professor Wang knows that now is not the time to take things lightly. Many archaeological experts will cause damage to some precious cultural relics due to negligence. Professor Wang told himself that he must never make such a mistake.
Today, Professor Wang came to the back room of the underground palace and uncovered all kinds of doubts that arose along the way. All the treasures are just a step away from him under the thick mud. At this time, his mind was full of various ideas. Imagine the immeasurable value of cultural relics possessed by the bright treasures under the mud. But he was also afraid that the nightmare of cultural relics being destroyed many years ago would happen again after he turned over the thick mud.
In this dark underground palace, there seemed to be countless eyes watching his next move. This is really a mysterious, exciting and crazy thousand-year-old tomb!