Master Archaeologist

Chapter 101 Human Martyrdom! (Please subscribe!!)
The appearance of the word "Zeng" Zhong Dingwen almost announced that the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery is a group of tombs of high-ranking nobles in Zeng State.

The owner of tomb No. M1 should be a certain Zenghou.

It's just that who Zeng Hou is, remains to be explored.

Even the method of inquiry can only rely entirely on archaeology, and we can only hope that there can be related inscriptions of the name of the owner of the tomb on other cultural relics in the M1 tomb.

Because Zeng Guo's genealogy is not recorded in any history books.

This is a mysterious vassal state that can only be found by archaeological discoveries.

So far, only seven Marquis Zeng have been found in the unearthed physical evidence concerning the lineage of the monarchs of Zeng State.

Among them, four were unearthed from the Guojiamiao tombs in Suizhou in the last century.

The two were unearthed in 1966 in the Sujialong tomb group in Jingshan, which was destroyed by water conservancy projects.

Another one was found together, which was the tomb of Zenghou's "Zhongzi", that is, the second son, Fufu.

Known as one of the "Ten National Treasures" of bronze wares, Zeng Zhong's father's pot is a treasure pot cast by his father with the finest metal.

The remaining three are relatively well-known.

One is Zeng Hou Yi, and the other two are Zeng Hou "Wu Yan" mentioned in the inscription on the bronze Ge unearthed from Zeng Hou Yi's tomb, and Zeng Hou Yu.

Whether the occupants of Tomb M1 in Wenfeng Pagoda are the two Marquises mentioned in the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, or some other Marquis whose name was not recorded in the history books, Chen Han also cannot make a conclusion.

Because the Shengding in tomb No. M1 was too badly damaged, only the inscription "Zeng" survived.

If we want to solve the mystery of the tomb owner of the M1 tomb, we still have to see if there are more discoveries in the cultural relics extracted from the follow-up cleaning.

However, Chen Han was quite surprised that the system, which had not been active for a long time, suddenly appeared and sent out a task.

The "Zeng Sui Mystery" that has plagued the history circle for 50 years, is there a chance to solve it this time? !
Even if there is no follow-up reward, just giving such a reminder makes Chen Han feel that he has gained a lot.

Smart people are good at finding key information points between the lines.

The system suddenly gave a task to solve the "mystery of Zeng Sui".

Regardless of what the reward is, since the system can suddenly issue such a task.

Obviously, this Wenfeng Pagoda excavation project, or the entire Suizhou excavation project, can help archaeologists solve the mystery of Zeng Guo!
Perhaps in the Wenfeng Pagoda tomb group, there is one buried deep enough to prove that Zeng Sui used to be one country, or two countries!
Just waiting for archaeologists to uncover the mystery!

"That must be me!"

Chen Han murmured in a low voice, picked up a handful of iron catalpa, and under Professor Li's bewildered gaze, rushed out of the cultural relics preservation room and went straight to the sand pile.

"Xiao Chen, what's wrong?"

In the eyes of other people in the room, after seeing the inscription of "Zeng", Chen Han was suddenly stunned, and then his expression became very excited, he picked up the iron catalpa and ran out.

It looks like it's about to do something big.

This sudden operation completely confused Professor Li.

He raised his head in doubt to confirm again and again.

On this rising tripod, there is indeed only one inscription with the word "Zeng", and there is no major event that changed the history of China.

Why is Chen Han so excited?
Just when Chen Han became very motivated for the sudden appearance of the system task, and was about to fight against the sand pile in the M1 tomb.

1 meters southwest of Tomb M59, the excavation of Tomb M2 has also made significant progress.

After more than half a month of hard work, the filling soil and gravel on the 12th floor have been cleared out, and the tomb chamber of the M2 tomb has finally been dug up.

The scene inside the M2 tomb was completely displayed in front of Kong Jianwen and the others.

The tomb chamber of this tomb is 6.68 meters long and 6.58 meters wide. There is a wooden coffin facing east to west in the tomb. The rectangular wooden coffin has completely decayed, and only some decay marks can be seen.

Through the decay marks, it can be measured that the length of the coffin is 5.1 meters, the width is 5.04 meters, and the height is 1.34 meters.

The five-meter-wide specification obviously has multiple coffins.

It's just a pity that the coffin is completely decayed, and it is no longer possible to see how heavy it is.

However, based on this length, it can be roughly inferred that it should be a tomb of the first level of a prince.

Tomb M2 is less than 1 meters away from Tomb M60, which shows that the relationship between the two is very close, and there is a high probability that they are brothers or husband and wife.

However, since there are only broken and scattered human bones and a few teeth in the coffin, the decay is very serious, and it is impossible to judge the gender of the tomb owner at all.

Tomb No. M1 does not even have any remains of the owner of the tomb.

This gave Kong Jianwen a headache.

At this moment, Zhuang Yunpeng, who was squatting in the tomb for careful cleaning, keenly found two rectangular decay marks that did not belong to the coffin besides the decay marks.

"Teacher, there seem to be two sacrificial coffins in the northern part of the coffin chamber!"

Rectangular, and it is the decay marks of wood, and it is about 1.9 meters long and 0.5 meters wide.

These are obviously two burial coffins.

In the tombs of nobles in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there are basically martyrs, with hundreds of many and dozens of few.

Although by the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, various countries gradually abolished human sacrifice, but this needs to be done step by step.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin Xiangong ordered "stop obeying death", and is considered to be the first prince to abolish the system of sacrificial burial in the form of decrees.

But this does not delay the fact that there are still many nobles in Qin who committed suicide.

There are even several large burial pits in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang.

The Qin State, which first proposed the abolition of the law of human martyrdom, is still the case.

Not to mention other eastern countries.

Tomb No. M2 is a tomb of the Spring and Autumn Period, so it is quite normal to have a sacrificial coffin.

The coffin of the sacrificial coffin has also been completely decayed, and the outline can only be roughly cleaned out through the remaining traces.

Following the outlines of the two coffins, five or six people including Zhuang Yunpeng and Lin Ya squatted there with brushes and square shovels and began to clean up the two coffins.

Kong Jianwen wandered around the small tomb with his hands on his waist.

I don't know which era that group of tomb robbers are from, their skills are really strong!
The burglary holes were dug as deep as the coffin chamber, and the tombs were seriously stolen in the early days, and there were very few cultural relics left in the tombs.

In most of the coffin chambers that have been cleared out, it is so clean that basically no large bronze wares can be seen.

None of the tripod, gui, li, chime bell, zun, 盨 and other ritual utensils that meet the specifications of this tomb have been seen, and they are cleaner than tomb M1.

Inside the super-large coffin ruins, which are five meters long and five meters wide, there are only some scattered small bronzes.

Kong Jianwen made a little identification, and roughly recognized some small accessories of carriages and horses, small pieces of jade, thumb-sized turquoise beads and other cultural relics.

Eighty percent of the remaining cultural relics in the tomb are copper components and ornaments of chariots and horses.

Even slightly larger carriage accessories were stolen.
"This group of tomb robbers are really ruthless, they only left us some corners and corners."

Kong Jianwen was so depressed and depressed.

I don't know which group of tomb robbers' ancestors did this, and the search is too clean.
One word, absolutely!

(End of this chapter)