Master Archaeologist

Chapter 174: Golden Jade Clothes? !
"What about the coffin?"

The Huang Chang problem that Zhuang Yunpeng imagined did not appear.

Ordinary coffins have not been seen either.

With the help of lighting equipment, only a pile of funerary objects can be seen scattered all over the place.

"The inner and outer coffins should be decayed. The inner and outer coffins of the people who died outside were not preserved. It makes no sense that the inner and outer coffins of the owner of the tomb can be preserved."

"Even if the owner of the tomb is Zhao Hu, he is still an ordinary person after death, and nature will not treat anyone differently."

Chen Han shrugged and said casually: "Forget about the burial objects, we came in to check the safety of the main tomb."

"Quick, take out the camera and shoot."

As soon as he entered the main coffin, Chen Han noticed that there were many broken and fallen stones on the walls on both sides of the main coffin in the middle.

Broken stones also fell from the rest of the rooms.

Most of the large stone slabs covering the roof of the room are broken in the middle.

However, the dislocation of the crack is not large, and it does not appear to be in danger of collapse.

At the end of the main coffin chamber, there are ⒉ stone pillars against the wall, separating a small room from the rear.

Through the lighting equipment above the head, it can be clearly seen that the inside is full of funerary objects such as pottery, copper and iron.

Just looking at it, Chen Han saw that there were large copper tripods, copper furnaces, and large iron tripods.

"Come and see!"

Ling An greeted Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng, pointed to the closed tomb door and said:
"It's very clear from the back of the stone gate, the upper and lower shaft heads of the stone gate are covered with green patina!"

"The stone gate, the lintel stone, and the stone anvil under the gate have rusted together, and that's why we can't open the stone gate from the outside!"

"If the rust can be removed, I guess the stone gate can be opened!"

Chen Han nodded in agreement.

Although he doesn't know chemistry, he still knows the most basic knowledge.

Things that are rusted and cannot be unscrewed can be reopened as long as the rust is removed.

"Okay, make a note of this matter, and report to the leader after going out later."

"Let's make a rough record of the tomb first."

Chen Han didn't say much, picked up a tape measure, and planned to start measuring the size of the tomb, checking for cracks and damage.

And Zhuang Yunpeng took a miniature camera and followed behind Chen Han, doing special follow-up shots for him.

All the work in the tomb needs to be filmed and archived, which are precious film and television materials.

"The length of the main coffin is 4.84, the width is 1.84, and the height is 2.3 meters."

"There are aisles on the left, right and rear sides that communicate with the east room, west room and back storage room."

"Three of the wall stones protruding flat on the stone walls on the east and west sides of the room have broken and fallen off, and the fractures are flush with the walls."

"My guess is that it was broken due to the shear force generated by the heavy pressure of the filling on the tomb."

"There are two broken wall stones on the top of the west wall. The largest one is covered on the top of the aisle from the main room to the west side room. It is 2 meters long and is gray sandy shale. It is broken in a straight line along the top of the wall and fell to the ground. Then fold it in half again."

"Half of it is 0.92 meters long and 0.42 meters wide, and it is pressed in the middle of the coffin to the west."

"...A total of seven or eight falling rocks fell into the room, and some funerary objects were smashed."

Chen Han meticulously recorded the situation in the room.

The situation in the main tomb was not good, and certainly not bad.

After this kind of stone chamber tomb is buried in the ground for a long time, the stones used to build the stone tomb will more or less fall and smash the burial objects.

There are wide gaps at the joints of the six roof stones in the main coffin chamber and the back storage chamber.

It turned out that the gaps were smoothed with yellow mud, but after a long time, most of the mud would inevitably fall off.

Although the filling soil on the top of the tomb has been rammed, a little of it still seeps into the room along the gaps.

A layer of loess of uneven thickness had already accumulated on the floor of the room.

In addition, Chen Han also found two waterlogging marks on the inside of the two stone door panels.

Although the tomb is still dry now, there are water stains, indicating that water has entered the tomb at least twice in the past 2000 years.

Judging from the heights of the two waterlogging lines, the first water level line was as high as 0.44 meters and the other as high as 0.27 meters.

This is not a big deal.

With the help of Zhuang Yunpeng, Chen Han sat on his shoulders, leaned over the top cover stone, and carefully inspected the top of the tomb with the help of a face-to-face tool.

"Although the tomb looks okay now, the tomb has actually been severely damaged."

Chen Han frowned, and stretched out his hand from the crack of the top cover stone, and took out a piece of red and black paint residue.

Lacquer flakes are obviously only found on lacquered woodware.

Why does it appear in the cracks of the capstone?
There is only one answer.

"There may have been three prolonged water soaks in the tomb."

"One of them filled the whole room, and some decayed lacquered wooden utensils floated up and stuck to the top of the tomb, so there were traces of lacquered leather sticking."

"The remaining two soaking times were quite long, forming waterlogging lines on the tomb door."

"I think the poor preservation of the funerary objects in the front room and the east and west ear rooms is not just because of the acidic soil."

"Because of the dry and wet changes in the tomb many times, the lacquer, wood, bamboo, silk, leather and other organic funerary relics in the tomb are almost completely decayed!"

Chen Han hadn't figured it out before, but the soil was acidic, and it was understandable that the wooden floor near the ground, the coffin, and the lacquered woodware were decaying.

But in the west ear room, there are many silk and lacquered woodware, which are placed on the uppermost layer. Even if the wooden products on the lower layer are damaged, there are some bronze objects in the middle layer to block them, and the lacquered wood and silk products on the upper layer cannot directly touch the soil.

It shouldn't be that badly damaged!

Now, case solved.

It turned out that the tomb had been flooded with water many times, and the most severe one was that the entire tomb was filled with water, and the lacquered wooden utensils could float to the top of the tomb.

Dry for a thousand years, wet for ten thousand years, half a year for neither dry nor wet.

This is immortal, it is really a ghost!
Sighing, Chen Han felt a little lost.

Although he found the reason for the poor preservation of the burial objects in the tomb, he was not happy at all.

"Fuck!"

"Come and see, isn't this the Jade Clothes?!"

Suddenly, a broken exclamation interrupted Chen Han and Zhuang Yunpeng's investigation.

They both turned around quickly.

I saw Ling An standing next to several piles of pottery at the south end of the tomb, holding a thin piece of jade with small holes drilled in its corners, dancing excitedly.

The size of this piece of jade is almost the size of a piece of mahjong, but it is very thin.

"Damn it, there is no yellow sausage, but a golden jade dress?!" Zhuang Yunpeng also roared in shock.

Their exclamations one after another caused Fu Pu and Kong Jianwen, who had been paying attention to the movement in the main tomb outside the tomb door, to widen their eyes.

In fact, the mission of the three of them to enter the main tomb was to investigate the environment of the tomb.

It stands to reason that these funerary objects scattered in the tomb, as well as the coffin of the "original" owner of the tomb, which was completely decayed in the center of the tomb, leaving only the funerary objects in the coffin, were not the goals of their trip.

Chen Han has been doing surveys before, and he didn't have time to carefully look at the funerary objects placed in the main tomb, what are they.

Ling An's curiosity is too high, and it is not recommended to secretly ponder over the funeral objects while working.

But now no one cares about this detail.

The three people inside the tomb, and the seven people outside the tomb, were all attracted by Ling An's voice.

This is the golden jade dress!

In the whole country, only a dozen or so have been found!

Each one is a rare treasure, and it is even forbidden to go abroad for exhibition!

This is the most precious, most shocking, and also the most high-standard cultural relic among the Han tombs!

If you find one, you can blow it for a lifetime!

(End of this chapter)