Master Archaeologist

Chapter 166 Waiting to open the main tomb
Iron weapons, in the Nanyue Kingdom, or the early Western Han Dynasty, were indeed a weapon that was difficult to popularize on a large scale.

However, this does not mean that the Nanyue Kingdom will not be able to use iron.

As we all know, the requirements of military industry are always higher than those of civilian use.

Civilian iron and military iron, can that be the same thing?
Can modern iron daily necessities and tools have the same level of hardness, strength, and high temperature resistance as those engines made of alloys?

Although the iron weapons of Nanyue Kingdom seem to be very rare.

But there are not many tools made of wrought iron.

Since the Warring States period, Chinese people have used iron to make agricultural tools.

The use of ironware started from agricultural tools, daily necessities, and finally weapons.

In the west ear room, apart from weapons, there are a lot of iron objects buried with them, mainly iron tools.

And it was specially placed in a wooden tool box.

This toolbox is placed on the east side of the west ear room near the south wall, and there are many kinds of tools in it!
There are hammers, adzes, shovels, cuts, files, scrapers, service knives, and awls, totaling 54 pieces. There are also 3 pieces of copper saws, and a few odd pieces such as machetes and spatulas.

In addition, a set of iron tools was unearthed on the left hand side of the passage entrance, but there is no tool box for this set of iron tools, because they have been stacked together for a long time, they have been completely adhered together, and it takes a lot of time to separate them. A lot of effort.

Plus some iron axes, iron chisels, scrapers, iron pestles, chopping knives, carving knives, etc. scattered around the tomb.

All the iron tools add up to nearly 100 pieces.

And there are more than 500 iron needles.

What are these iron needles used for? It is very confusing to the researchers of the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology.

More than 500 pieces!
If it is used for sewing clothes, it is absolutely impossible to need so many pieces.

These more than 500 iron needles added another unsolved problem to the tomb of the Nanyue king.

Of course, while there are unsolved problems, there is also good news.

In addition to these iron tools, archaeologists discovered two more weapons!
Ring first knife!

The Huan Shou Dao was born in the Western Han Dynasty, also known as the Han Dao, and is the ancestor of the Chinese War Dao.

Because the head end of the knife handle is made into an oblate ring shape, it is called a ring head knife.

This thing is only made of iron, not bronze, and it is a weapon that was only invented in the Western Han Dynasty.

It was the most advanced and most lethal melee cold weapon in the world at that time!
The main reason why the Huns were defeated by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was because of the trained cavalry.

Facing the Huns who were still holding bronze weapons, and the soldiers of the Western Han Dynasty holding ring-shouldered knives, it was like gods blocking and killing gods, and Buddhas blocking and killing Buddhas.

The so-called one Han as five Hu is not because the soldiers of the Han are really so powerful that they can beat five by one.

It is because the Han army has mastered advanced weapons. Once the two armies are at war, the bronze weapons can be smashed into pieces with the ring sword. How can this battle be fought?
The two iron knives in the west ear room are in the typical ring-shou knives style.

The blade is straight and the hilt is clearly demarcated.

The back section of the knife is slightly wider, and the front section is obliquely harvested as a front.

The handle is connected with an oval ring head, and the knife is put into the sheath.

Unlike the common knives of later generations, the Huan Shou Knife actually looks like a sword from the outside.

Slender and narrow.

However, it is different from the sword, which is wide at the top, narrow at the bottom, and becomes thinner as it goes down.

The ending lengths of the ring-head knives are almost the same, only the blade at the bottom end is curved.

Because a knife has only one edge, but a sword has both sides.

Therefore, the sword is wide in the middle and narrow on both sides, and there is only one "↑" left at the tip of the sword.

The knife only cuts one edge, so there is no need to cast it like this.

To put it bluntly, the ring head sword looks like the kind of samurai sword used in modern Japan.

Of course, the Japanese samurai sword is learned from the Huaxia Tang Dao, and the Huaxia Tang Dao evolved from the Huan Shou Dao.

In terms of seniority, Huan Shou Dao is still the ancestor.

The appearance of these two ring-head knives can be said to be reasonable and unexpected.

The staff of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology were pleasantly surprised and felt that it should be so.

The surprise is because, after all, this is the first ring sword in the early Western Han Dynasty. It can be said that it is the earliest batch of iron weapons, and the meaning of the discovery is very different.

I think it should be so because, after all, the Nanyue Kingdom and the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty have always maintained close contacts.

It doesn't seem so strange to be able to get the ring head knife equipped on a large scale by the Han army.

Even if ordinary soldiers in the Western Han Dynasty were unable to equip ring-shoudao on a large scale, it would be no problem for the Nanyue King to collect a few.

Right here in the west ear room, the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology is constantly excited, exclaiming, jumping, and excited about the dazzling array of funerary objects.

In the east ear room on the opposite side, the situation is not very good.

Chen Han, Professor Li, Kong Jianwen, Zhuang Yunpeng, Lin Ya and others squatted next to the 2-meter pit dug out of the roof of the east ear chamber without any image, and bored emotions exuded on their faces.

"Professor Li, when will the main tomb be opened?"

"Why don't we wait for the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology and open it ourselves."

"I went to have a look. There are countless funerary objects in the west ear room. It is estimated that it will take half a month to clean them up."

"We can't just wait around like this, can we?"

Zhuang Yunpeng is eager to encourage Professor Li, hoping that he can lead everyone to do something big!
Open the main tomb!
In the east ear room, although the funerary objects are all precious musical instruments, there are all kinds of chime bells and chimes.

But in terms of quantity, it is simply incomparable with the West Ear Room.

It only took three and a half days, and the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences basically cleaned up the east ear chamber.

Even the rotten floor wood chips that were left on the ground were scraped off one by one.

In the current east ear room, it is called clean.

Nothing remained but four stone walls, and a pitted rock formation floor.

Logically speaking, after they finished cleaning the east ear chamber, they should start cleaning the main tomb.

Because only the main tomb is connected to the left and right side chambers and the back chamber.

If the main tomb is not opened, the other areas of the tomb will not be accessible unless the skylight is opened from above.

If there is no need to open the skylight, I will definitely not do it.

To put it into a big way, it can be regarded as destroying the tomb.

This tomb of Zhao Hu is a tomb with a combination of vertical pits and excavated holes, part of which was dug out of vertical pits, and part of which was dug out horizontally into the rock layer.

Such a special tomb, the tomb itself is a very important cultural relic.

Don't destroy it casually!
The local government also plans to keep the tombs as they are, and build an on-site museum around them.

So if you want to clean up other areas, you can only open the main tomb.

But the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences was airborne from Beijing after all.

For such an important matter as the opening of the main tomb, it must be done together with the local archaeological institute, so it is not good to leave others aside.

This made Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng anxious to death.

The main tomb is there, as long as you stretch out your hand, you can push open the stone door and enter.

But he couldn't enter, wandering around here every day with nothing to do, this kind of life is not an ordinary torment.

It's just that Professor Li doesn't think so.

He glanced at the restless Zhuang Yunpeng expressionlessly, and said in a flat tone: "Why is it so urgent, is it half a month away?"

"Half a month later, can the things in the main tomb still fly?"

"Young people, don't be so impatient!"

"Wait!"

(End of this chapter)