Master Archaeologist

Chapter 147 Cleaning up the tomb passage
In the past few days waiting for the arrival of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology has not done nothing.

After three days of investigation, the local archaeologists basically figured out the structure and scale of the tomb, and with the assistance of the construction site, they built a large rainproof basin to cover the cemetery.

In fact, the tomb passage they led the people from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences to see is only a little remnant of the entrance.

At that time, the on-site construction site directly dug out the top stone slab of the tomb.

Generally, the tombs in the Qin and Han Dynasties are in the shape of "Jia".

The horizontal line below "A" is the tomb passage, which is used to move the mound up and down for the construction workers.

Generally speaking, the tomb passage is straight to the ground, and it is enough to backfill the tomb passage after the construction of the tomb chamber is completed.

In order to prevent theft, many people will backfill all kinds of strange things in the tomb passage.

There are also people who are chicken thieves and make a fake tomb on the tomb passage, and the real tomb is placed under the fake tomb.

But in the actual archaeological excavation process, it is rare to actually dig along the tomb passage.

All the soil layers are cleaned up directly from top to bottom.

With the cleaning of the soil layer, the tomb passages with different colors of filling soil will be cleaned out naturally.

As for the tomb robbers, they also directly drilled a hole to lead directly to the tomb.

Regardless of whether it is serious or not, basically they don't go to the grave.

Especially in the excavation of Xianggang this time, the 20-meter soil layer was directly cleared, and a [-]-square-meter piece of land was forcibly cut out.

The tomb passages were basically raised.

Only a section of the tomb passage close to the plane of the tomb remains, which still exists.

That is, the corridor in front of the tomb gate.

“现存墓道口水平长10.46米、近墓门处宽2，50米、南端宽2.36米、距现地表深3，22米。”

"The two long sides of the east and west are basically straight, the upper mouth is slightly wider than the bottom, the two walls are slightly inclined, the surface of the wall is not very smooth, and there are many pits formed by the collapse, indicating that the wall of the tomb passage had a slight landslide after excavation. Phenomenon."

The staff of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology are carefully introducing the situation to everyone at the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.

"The remaining tomb passages are all ten meters long? It really is the king's tomb." Zhuang Yunpeng murmured in surprise.

"The ten-meter-long tomb passage has an inclination of just over 3 meters. If you want to build it to the ground, the tomb passage must be seven or eighty meters long?"

It does not mean that the height difference between the ground and the tomb chamber is 20 meters, and the tomb passage is only 20 meters.

Straight up and down is not called tomb passage, it is called well drilling!
If you want to be able to walk and build stairs, the tomb passage must be built at an angle.

Just like the subway passage that you usually take when you take the subway, it is repaired diagonally downward.

"Since everyone is here, let's start the excavation work tomorrow."

"Let's clear out the tomb first."

Zhai Heng, deputy director of the Guangdong Institute of Archeology, clapped his hands and said.

Kong Jianwen and Professor Li have nothing to do, and you don't need to rest for a few days, and you can start working tomorrow.

The next day, several crane trucks drove to the excavation site first.

Local archaeologists have already investigated it clearly before.

In this tomb passage about ten meters long, there is not only soil filling, but also a layer of stone filling.

The height of the stone filling is level with the ground surface when the tomb was discovered.

That is to say, these rock fills must be removed before everyone can clean up the fill below.

A total of 18 yuan was filled with stones, 16 of which were stuffed near the door of the tomb, as if to block the door.

The last two pieces are seven meters away from the entrance of the tomb, which is already higher than the slope of the tomb passage, which seems to block the entrance of the tomb.

This made the archaeologists at the scene very curious about the seven-meter space from the tomb door to the tomb passage.

The front is blocked, and the back is also blocked, which means that something must be buried in the middle!
You must know that this ten-meter remaining tomb passage is only a part of the original tomb passage, only one-seventh of the length of the original tomb passage.

It was only kept because it was the closest to the tomb door.

So, why is there a tomb passage specially blocked at the place closest to the tomb door.

If we say that the inside of the tomb door is the tomb of the Nanyue king, that is, his underground palace.

Then will he arrange some "guards" to guard his palace at the gate of his house?
Thinking of this, the hearts of every archaeologist at the scene became hot.

After more than a dozen pieces of rock filling were removed, more than 30 archaeologists from three archaeological institutes immediately devoted themselves to cleaning the tomb passage.

Chen Han also squatted at the east wall of the tomb, holding a shovel and constantly shoveling the soil.

In the process of shoveling the soil, he reached out to take a little filling soil from time to time, rubbed it on his hand, rubbed it, and smelled it.

And exchange information with others.

"Well, all the fill is yellow-brown loam."

"This shows that the tomb passage should be backfilled as a whole, and the amount of work is not small."

Chen Han was rubbing the filling soil with his hands, feeling very sighed in his heart.

There is no trace of the filling soil being moved. Thinking about the best, this means that no one has re-excavated the tomb after it was backfilled.

This shows that this tomb has not been robbed!

It is not easy to find a tomb from the Qin and Han Dynasties that has not been stolen.
I didn't see Zhao Yingqi's tomb, it was dug up at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In this way, for a whole day, more than 30 people squatted beside the tomb passage, busy cleaning the tomb passage.

In one day, everyone dug down 2.7 meters and cleared half of the tomb passage.

Some remnants of Jomon tiles were also found in the filling.

Some of these residual tiles are decorated with polka dot patterns, while others are plain.

Qin bricks and Han tiles.

When the Nanyue Kingdom existed, it happened to be the Western Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.

It seems that the advanced tiles of the Western Han Dynasty also circulated to the Nanyue Kingdom through commercial routes, and were used by the Nanyue King to fill the tomb passages.

At that time, this should be regarded as a luxury.

But apart from the tiles, we haven't found anything else yet.

After the excavation work in the afternoon, Chen Han also received a task to survey and map the longitudinal section of the tomb passage filled with stone and soil.

An archaeologist who does not want to be a good painter is not a good archaeologist.

Anyone who studies archaeology must also learn surveying and mapping.

Like civil engineering, archaeological engineering is inseparable from surveying and mapping.

The size, shape, and style of the tomb all need to be surveyed and mapped.

The size, shape, and style of the unearthed objects also need to be drawn.

These are later organized into excavation briefings and archived records.

When Chen Han was studying for the first two months, he followed Kong Jianwen and had been drawing stick figures for the cultural relics unearthed from the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery.

He also complained less.

Now that we have the technology of taking pictures and keeping them on file, why bother to paint by hand? No matter how good the painting is, the photos will be clearer and more straightforward.
But he had nowhere to say that.

At present, archaeologists in China, or in other words, all over the world, are still drawing pictures by hand.

However, by the second day, he was in no mood to continue complaining.

Because during the cleaning process of the tomb passage, some serious cultural relics were finally discovered!

　The next chapter is very late, don't wait, watch it tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)