Master Archaeologist

Chapter 151 An Official Seal!
The next day, October 10, after discussing with the Guangzhou and Guangdong Archaeological Institutes, it was still decided that the capping stone slab on the front room had to be removed.

They have already cracked into four pieces, and two of them have sunk by ten centimeters, resulting in a serious misalignment, and there is a risk of collapse at any time.

Even if a large rock with a length of more than three meters and a width of 1.8 meters is divided into four pieces, if it collapses, it will kill people.

On the same day, several archaeological institutes each sent a person to squeeze into the front room of the tomb again, and roughly measured the positions of several artifacts such as copper tripods and pottery pots exposed on the accumulated soil, and took them out temporarily.

In addition, a layer of plastic film was laid on the indoor floor as a spacer, and dozens of burlap bags filled with sawdust were stacked in the room to form a square pillar to support the broken and dislocated roof stone for safety.

The next day, the found construction team dug away all the remaining rammed earth layer on the top cover stone, so that the top cover stone was completely exposed, and then used a crane to start lifting work.

Firstly, the frontal stone on the tomb door that had been broken into two was lifted away, then the two stone tomb doors were lifted, and finally the top cover stone was lifted.

Because a sack was placed under the roof stone to support it, the roof stone that broke into four pieces was quickly lifted away safely without causing a bad collapse.

Everything went well. When the door of the tomb and the top cover of the front chamber were removed, the entire front chamber was completely exposed to the surface, making it easy to carry out excavation work.

On October 10th, all the sacks used to support the safety in the front room were removed. Professor Li brought Chen Han, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Lin Ya into the venue, and began to clean up and excavate the accumulated maps and artifacts in the front room.

Kong Jianwen led other people to start surveying and mapping the remains and relics of the front room.

That is to draw floor plans and structural drawings.

Chen Han and the others cleared out any artifacts, and the others immediately took them away to take pictures and survey and map.

After successively clearing out the filling soil that poured in from the tomb passage, the situation in the front room gradually became clear.

The arrangement of funerary objects in the front room is relatively simple.

The first thing to be discovered was a lacquered wooden car model on the west side of the room.

And on the east side, some remnants of a coffin were also found.

On the east side of the room, under the stone wall, there is a piece of ash marks, which are about 1.8 meters long from north to south and about 1 meter wide from east to west.

Among the ashes on the board, some red and black residual paint leather were also found.

It can be determined that this is where the coffin of the martyr is located.

It's just that this coffin has completely decayed, leaving only a little trace of rotten wood, and no bones are found in the coffin, obviously it has decayed together.

It is impossible for the owner of the tomb to be in the front room. Obviously, this should also be a coffin of one person.

Three coffins were found one after another, and all the coffins and bones were completely rotten, which is very regrettable and regrettable.

"This is the tomb with the worst preserved bones that I have participated in the excavation." Chen Han sighed.

Generally speaking, in human corpses, although the tissues and organs are easy to rot, the bones are very hard.

Under normal circumstances, it can be maintained for at least 5000 years, and after 5000 years, fossils will gradually form locally.

Otherwise, where did the skulls of Homo sapiens tens of thousands of years ago come from?

It's just that it's normal.

Under abnormal circumstances, such as the present situation, it is buried by severely acidic soil, which accelerates the decomposition of materials.

The coffins and bones of these people are gone.

But acidic soil is not a panacea, which is good news.

At least among the cultural relics, except for lacquerware, the remaining funerary objects have not decayed.

Chen Han searched in the "coffin" following the traces of ashes on the board, and soon found an iron tool at the north and south ends.

At the north end, there is an iron scraper, and at the south end is a ring-head knife.

After discovering that a person died in the coffin in the front room, the first thing everyone needs to determine is the identity of this person.

The identity here does not refer to his name, but to find out what he did before he was alive.

Generally speaking, those who were sacrificed as human beings were slaves or servants of the owner of the tomb.

But servants also have positions, like the one outside the tomb gate, a coachman.

The one at the end of the ramp is a warrior.

And the martyr who was placed in the front room and guarded the gate leading to the main tomb for the owner of the tomb obviously also had a special identity.

It's just a ring head knife and an iron scraper, which can't prove his identity yet.

Chen Han buried his head and continued to search.

Soon, he found that between the two iron tools, there seemed to be a group of jade objects placed vertically!
"Professor Li, Brother Zhuang! Come and see!"

"There seems to be a group of jade objects here!"

Chen Han took a brush, and gently brushed away a layer of accumulated soil, and a round jade disc appeared in front of his eyes.

And in this jade bi, about ten centimeters away in a straight line, there is still a jade ring half exposed from the soil.

Professor Li, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Lin Ya quickly gathered beside Chen Han, and followed him to clean up quickly.

In the space of about 1.2 meters between the ring head knife and the iron scraper, they quickly cleared out a group of jade pendants.

This group and accessories form a straight line from south to north, and consist of three jade bi, two jade rings, two jade huang and a gilt copper ring.

"The three jade biscuits are arranged in order from small to large, and between the second and third jade biscuits are interlaced with a gold and copper ring."

"Under the three biscuits, there are two jade huangs and two jade rings stacked on top of each other."

"The two huangs are the same size, and the two rings are each of the same size. The small ring is in the north, and the big ring is in the south. They both press on the two huangs. This is the same as the order of the three jade bibs from small to large."

"Judging from the unearthed location, this string of jade pendants should have covered the body of the deceased."

Kong Jianwen, who had been paying attention to their excavation work, immediately recorded the condition of this string of jade accessories.

This is obviously a string of jade pendants for decoration. When it is in good condition, it should be tied with a rope.

It's just that the ropes used to tie the knots have all decayed, and only these jade accessories remain.

"Hey, look, is there something beside the jade bi?!"

Lin Ya's exclamation made Professor Li and Chen Han, who had just cleared out this group of jade pendants, nervous again.

They both looked around the three pieces of jade.

Soon, the two saw two distinctive protrusions at the same time.

Professor Li picked up the brush and cleaned up the dust next to the jade bi in the middle.

Soon, a bronze mirror was cleaned out.

Not in great condition, also badly corroded and chipped, the knob on the back of the bronze mirror is missing.

However, from the surviving parts, it can still be seen that this bronze mirror is not ordinary.

The main pattern of the bronze mirror is the pattern of three dragons, with the pattern of clouds and thunder lining the ground.

In addition, the dragon on the pattern opens its mouth and sticks out its tongue, its head is close to the round button seat, its body is twisted into a circle, and its tail is folded into a square shape.

Finally, the outer edge of the dragon pattern is also decorated with a circle of thin diagonal lines.

The style is very exquisite, and the workmanship is very meticulous, it doesn't even look like a utensil that a person can own.

I'm afraid the identity of this person's death is very unusual!
And Chen Han also found a square-inch seal next to the northernmost piece of jade, which was also the first and largest piece.

The seal is cast in copper.

The style and shape are typical of the late Qin and early Han styles.

The Indian style is square, with fish buttons.

There are incised four-character seal script on the printed surface.

Chen Han carefully turned the seal over, cleaned all the dust on it with a brush, carefully identified the four characters, and read softly:

"Jing Lane Order Seal."

"This is an official seal?!"

　I understand everything, I have been following and reading reports all night, and I have no intention of typing.

　　I guess readers and friends are also not interested in reading novels.

　　See landing.

　　To be honest, disappointing.

　　I don't know what to say, hey.

　　I will stick to Chapter 3 for a while.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)