Master Archaeologist

Chapter 160 Guangzhou Institute of Archeology: Never fought such a rich battle!

In the east ear room, a group of people from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences are busy cleaning up the musical instruments and wine containers in the room, as well as some fragments of utensils that were crushed due to the collapse of the roof stone in the early years.

In the west ear room on the other side, the researchers of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology were not idle either.

Compared with the east ear room, the situation in the west ear room is not so good.

In the west ear room, bronze wares, pottery wares, lacquer wares, wooden wares and other funerary objects were stacked layer upon layer, with almost no place to stand.

It is also because of this that the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology strongly requires them to lead the excavation and cleaning of the west ear chamber.

Seeing this situation, Fu Pu, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology, was very excited.

It's good to pile up the funerary objects, which shows that there are many cultural relics!
Guangzhou has never been unearthed before, such a large tomb with rich cultural relics!
However, when the sense of joy dissipated, they soon began to have headaches.

"There is little place to stand" is not an exaggerated statement, but a realistic statement.

Like the east ear chamber, the west ear chamber was also built by hollowing out the rock formation.

So if you want to clean and excavate from the top down, you need to get through a layer of rock, which is very troublesome.

It can only be entered from the aisle connecting the front room to the west ear room, which is the easiest.

But the west ear room was really filled with funerary objects.

Archaeologists cannot enter at all.
How to enter the West Ear Chamber smoothly and start excavation has puzzled the team of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology.

They even asked the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences for advice from Professor Li and Kong Jianwen.

No way, never fought such a rich battle.

When was a large tomb unearthed in Guangzhou, the entire ear chamber was filled with funerary objects, and it was not even possible to enter?
From the establishment of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology to the present, it is a unique thing!
In this regard, the experts from the Institute of Archeology, Academy of Social Sciences have rich experience.

Professor Li just inspected the site and was not troubled at all. He proposed an excavation plan for "low suspension operation" for the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology.

The method is simple.

First of all, in the front room, stack several wood chips and sacks into a small pile about 0.5 meters high, and put a long bamboo ladder on it, like a seesaw. With heavy pressure, the other end went into the west ear chamber.

The excavators of the Institute of Archaeology "climbed" into the room along the bamboo ladder for on-the-spot observation, and first cleared out two footholds under the roots of the north and south stone walls 1.5 meters deep into the room.

Then at this point, two short posts are stacked with bricks, and a log is placed on top of it to form the first T-shaped bracket.

Then continue to extend inward, and build two more brackets in the same way.

Finally, on the three brackets with the same height, two thick wooden planks are laid vertically as "slide rails", and three or four planks slightly shorter than the horizontal width of the room are laid horizontally on the "slide rails".

In this way, a low-altitude operation platform about 0.6 meters above the indoor ground was built.

As long as the excavators sit or lie on the platform, they can lean over to clean up.

Moreover, these flat wooden boards on the platform can also be moved according to the needs of the cleaning process, which is very convenient.

As soon as Professor Li's method came out, the staff at all levels of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology were amazed.

Sure enough, it is the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, and the experience is really rich.

This solution is indeed a simple and safe method!
The people from the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology immediately adopted this suggestion and acted quickly.

The day after Professor Li made the suggestion, they got the "seesaw" done.

Tao Jianli, a researcher at the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology, used this simple long ladder in the air to get into the west ear room from the aisle.

As soon as he entered the west ear room, the first thing Tao Jianli noticed was not the various bronze sacrificial vessels crowded in the room, but the big crack on the top of his head.

Although the west ear chamber is a room carved out of the rock formation, it is also capped with stone slabs.

Otherwise, in the concept of human beings, this is not a "room", but a cave.

How can the mausoleum of the majestic Nanyue monarch be in a cave? A room must be built.

But the situation of the capping slate is not very optimistic.

"The four large stone slabs on the top cover in the room each have a penetrating fracture and are seriously misaligned. The maximum misalignment may exceed 4 centimeters!"

Tao Jianli's cry soon reached the ears of other staff members of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology who were waiting in the front room.

What's more, the video captured by Tao Jianli's camera was simultaneously transmitted to the tablet computer in the hands of director Fu Pu.

Four very conspicuous cracks that appeared to be in serious danger appeared in their eyes.

Indeed, at first glance, it is very dangerous, as if four stone slabs will hit the ground at any time.

But after discussing with several researchers for a while, Fu Pu felt relieved.

"The ear chambers are hollowed out, so there's actually no problem with the load on the top, and it's not under too much pressure."

"And there is no gap around the capstones to allow them to move, and the chiseled space is just that big."

"Even if the capstone is cracked, it shouldn't collapse. It's quite safe."

Fu Pu raised his head and looked worriedly at the three stone slabs above the aisle in the west ear room.

"On the contrary, the stone slab on the top of the corridor is also seriously broken, and there is a danger of collapsing at any time."

The location of the Yue King's tomb is very ingenious.

The front room, main room, and rear storage room in the center are not in the rock layer, but on the top of the soil layer, and the roof stone has to bear the filling pressure of 20 meters deep.

The east and west ear chambers, as well as the side chambers at the back, are holes dug horizontally into the rock layer. The three walls are directly made of the rock layer as walls, and only the top is covered with a capping stone.

The cap stone on the top is more symbolic than actual, and has no load-bearing pressure.

However, the roof stones on the aisle are different. They really have to bear the pressure of the 20-meter soil layer.

Although the upper soil layer has been cleaned up now, as long as there are cracks in this "load-bearing" roof, there is a risk of collapse.

Fu Pu hurriedly sent people to find the construction team to reinforce the roof stone on the side of the aisle, and took support measures to prevent subsidence, and then started the cleaning work with peace of mind.

The first thing they had to face was the doorway, which should have been behind the door of the tomb in the west ear chamber, a pile of pottery and the two large bronze tripods on the pottery team.

It was also this pile of pottery and the two large bronze tripods that blocked the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology from entering the west ear room.

Moreover, there is a vacant place between the two big bronze tripods, and it can be seen that there should have been another big bronze tripod.

The big bronze tripod and several pottery that were seen in the front room, which obviously did not belong to the funeral objects of the "Jing Xiang Ling", came from this.

It rolled into the front chamber after the wooden tomb door of the west ear chamber decayed.

Looking at the pile of bronzes and pottery up to 40 centimeters thick at the doorway in front of him, Fu Pu directed several researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology to climb up the long bamboo ladder.

"Start cleaning up!"

"Start cleaning from the top!"

(End of this chapter)