Master Archaeologist

Chapter 189
The cleaning of the main tomb went very smoothly.

After eating and drinking, everyone continued to work the next day.

The two archaeological teams spent a total of fifteen days cleaning up and collecting all the funerary objects in the main tomb, including the decayed screen.

After the main tomb was cleaned up, let alone the coffin in the center of the tomb that was so decayed that there were only a few traces of decay left.

Even the gravel and soil that seeped into the main tomb were cleaned up.

It is not until this extent that the cleaning of the main tomb is considered complete.

After the cleaning of the main tomb chamber is completed, only the east and west side chambers and the back storage chamber remain to be cleaned.

Moreover, these three tombs are all connected through the main tomb.

The afternoon of November 11nd.

The Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology held a team leader meeting together.

The focus of the discussion is to determine the excavation and cleaning work of the east and west chambers and the back chamber.

Since the three tombs are not large, not many people can participate in the excavation together.

Therefore, after the discussion at the meeting, Professor Li and Director Fu agreed that the three tombs should be excavated and cleaned at the same time.

This is the most efficient solution.

In the east room, led by Professor Li, four researchers from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences are in charge of cleaning and excavating.

In the west room, Director Fu led a team and led four researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Archeology to clean up and excavate.

In the back storage room, led by Kong Jianwen, two researchers from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences and two researchers from the Institute of Guangzhou Archeology carried out the excavation.

There is no way, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences is indeed full of big bosses, and the two leaders who came here have the ability to lead the team.

Moreover, they have rich experience in the excavation of Qin and Han tombs.

Of course, in addition to the excavators, the three archaeological teams will also assign a photographer to fully record the whole process of the excavation and cleaning work.

In the future, the material captured by these photographers may become a certain episode of "Exploration·Discovery".

"Mysterious Nanyue Kingdom Tomb!"

But these things are not something that Chen Han and his archaeologists should worry about.

On November 11, the cleaning work officially started.

The first step in the work is not to clean up the cultural relics in the room, but to build wooden boards.

In order to facilitate the staff to move around indoors and facilitate the cleaning work.

Chen Han and the others took a lot of planks and used them to build a shelf in the tomb.

To put it simply, in the passage from the main tomb to the side chamber, a horizontal board is inserted into the side chamber, and then a wooden plank is erected at the north and south ends to penetrate the whole chamber.

In this way, when everyone cleans up, they can stand on the wooden board and clean up.

After setting up the planks, Chen Han followed Professor Li and began to clean up the east room step by step from south to north.

The east room is located to the east of the main room, and is symmetrical to the west room. The room is rectangular in the north-south direction, and there is an aisle in the middle that communicates with the main room.

When the tomb was discovered, the place where the foundation of the wall was excavated at the construction site was a part of the roof stone of the east chamber.

Partial furnishings of the interior can be glimpsed from the joint gaps between the roof stones.

The bronze tripod that Director Fu saw at that time was in the east room.

So even before the main tomb was cleaned up, everyone knew it.

There is a high probability that senior nobles were buried in the east room.

As the tomb of Zhao Hu, King Wen of Nanyue, what kind of high-ranking nobleman can be buried with him and buried in a side room?
Obviously, there is only one possibility.

It is his wives and concubines.

According to the funeral customs of the Western Han Dynasty, the queens of the princes and kings are usually not buried with the princes and kings, and they are usually buried in relative mausoleums.

For example, the brother of Emperor Han Jing, the biggest hero in the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, the famous Liang Wang Liu Wu.

This Han clan is very specific in emotion.

He only loves his own queen in his life.

His offspring were also born to the queen.

The love between the two is a model among the princes and kings of the Western Han Dynasty, and it is very romantic.

But the tombs of him and the queen were also built next to each other, and they did not share the same cave after death.

In order to meet the queen after death, he dug an underground passage between his tomb and the queen's tomb.

It is convenient for their souls to have a tryst after death.

So did the emperors.

Next to the emperor's tomb of the Western Han Dynasty, there are usually the tombs of the empress and the tombs of important ministers who died during the reign.

It can be seen from this that the princes, kings and emperors of the Western Han Dynasty will not be buried in the same mausoleum with the queen and queen.

And not just Xihan.

From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the monarchs were always buried in the same cave as their wives.

Therefore, the person who was buried in the east chamber with Zhao Hu, King Wen of Nanyue, obviously would not be his queen.

It could only be his wife.

Before Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, did not reform the harem system.

The composition of the harem of the Western Han Dynasty was the same as that of the Qin Dynasty, with one empress of the highest rank and three wives of the second rank.

Next, there are no numbers for beauties, lovers, eight sons, seven sons, long envoys, and young envoys.

Taking the example of the old Zhao family's arrogance and proclaiming the emperor, all systems in the country are compared with the situation of the emperor.

It doesn't matter whether he uses the Qin system or the harem system in the early Western Han Dynasty.

In addition to the queen, the harem of the Nanyue monarch must have three wives.

Although "Mrs." sounds like a wife, but in fact, she was still a concubine at that time.

Since she is a concubine, she can naturally be buried with the monarch.

Although they are concubines, the status of a king's concubine is different from that of ordinary nobles.

According to the situation in the Han Dynasty, the status of the wife is equivalent to that of the princes and kings.

The national power of Nanyue is not as good as that of the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty, but as the wife of Emperor Wen, there must be no less funeral objects for this lady.

Professor Li, Chen Han and others came to the east room with a fiery heart.

"The interior is 6.95 meters long, 1.61 meters wide, and 2.24 meters high."

"The indoor floor is paved with wooden boards, which have decayed, and the remaining wood traces are clearly visible."

"Five roof stones are laid flat on the mosaic stones on the two side walls. The first and second stones from the south have been broken, and the fourth and sixth stones on the top of the east wall are broken and fell into the tomb. Some funerary objects were destroyed. smashed."

"During the construction above, the first stone and the second stone were dug out. Only through the gap between the two stones can we see the indoor situation."

Zhuang Yunpeng took a soft ruler, measured the tomb up and down, and reported to Professor Li seriously.

After nodding absently, Professor Li turned on the light and looked around the room.

It's a little different from what I imagined.

When the door of the main tomb was opened before, it was discovered that this tomb had experienced water seepage and flooding many times.

The worst time, the stagnant water directly filled the tomb.

Between the main tomb and the east and west side chambers, although there is an aisle, there is no tomb door.

It may be for the convenience of the soul of the owner of the tomb to pass through.

This also caused the accumulated water to easily flood the east chamber.

After being submerged by stagnant water many times, the interior on the east side can be said to be a mess.

The positions of the various funeral objects were all messed up by the water, without any rules at all.

Into the eyes, it is a messy situation.

"It's a big project to clean up the east room."

(End of this chapter)