Master Archaeologist

Chapter 207 That Small Box Is My Forever Home

As for why there is such a hole in the tomb door that was destroyed by tomb robbers, the archaeologists obviously have no way to find the answer.

Unless the tomb robber who made the hole was resurrected.

After this topic was skipped, we talked about a more important topic.

"How to enter the tomb?"

"Do you want to enter through the tomb door?"

Generally speaking, in a tomb similar to an underground palace.

For example, some princely tombs in the Han Dynasty, and some well-preserved stone and brick tombs from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the tomb door is still there, the archaeologists will take the primary purpose of not destroying the tomb. The door directly into the burial chamber for excavation cleaning.

The most famous one is the excavation of Guo Moruo's Dingling Tomb.

When the Dingling Mausoleum was to be excavated, Guo Moruo and Wu Han decided to find the tomb passage first, then enter through the tomb passage, open the tomb door and enter the main tomb chamber.

The plan is well planned.

But at the first step, he was frustrated.

Although the Dingling Mausoleum has a lot of ground-level sacrificial buildings, it is really hard to find where the tomb passage is.

Guo Moruo led people to look for it for several months, and excavated many suspected "Dinglingkou" places, but they couldn't find the tomb passage.

Almost at a loss, Guo Moruo decided not to look for the tomb passage at all, but to dig violently from top to bottom, directly demolishing the entire ground.

Fortunately, just before making this decision, the entrance to the tomb was found.

Otherwise, let alone the above-ground buildings in Dingling, I am afraid that even the underground palace will not be visited.

However, after finding the tomb passage, the excavation team led by Guo Moruo and Wu Han entered Dingling without causing much damage.

Although, many precious cultural relics quickly oxidized and disappeared after encountering air, resulting in heavy losses of cultural relics.

However, the entire underground palace is well preserved, allowing future generations to enter and visit to see how the emperor's mausoleum was built during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The same is true for the tomb of the Nanyue king that Chen Han and the others participated in the excavation last time.

The main purpose is to enter the underground palace for excavation, without destroying the overall structure of the underground palace, so that after the excavation is completed, the underground palace can be made into a museum for tourists to visit.

However, this time the situation in Xinxuewei Tomb No. [-] is different.

The tomb door of Xinxuewei Tomb No. [-] is too small.

It can only accommodate one person bending over to get in and out.

If it is necessary to carry and transfer the funerary objects inside through such a tomb door, it will be very troublesome, and even many of the funerary objects may not be taken out.

Let's talk about this topic.

Li Chunchao has a plan in mind.

"We've checked it out before."

"The tomb consists of the main chamber and four side chambers, North 1, North 2, South 1, and South 2."

"Judging from the survey above, the tomb chambers are all of wood and stone structure, and the plane is rectangular."

"The top of the tomb is paved with sheds in a north-south direction, and the walls are all made of stone, with square logs sandwiched between the stone layers."

"The north, south, and west sides of the tomb and the tomb are built with a mixture of adobe and gravel."

"The main room is separated from the side room and adjacent side rooms by adobe and gravel walls, and the main room and the side room are connected by passages."

"Simply put, each tomb is connected to the main tomb, and above the tomb, all the roofs are sheds."

"We don't need to go through the door of the tomb. We just need to remove all the roofing sheds above each tomb, and then work directly like digging a shaft tomb in an earth pit!"

understand!

Kong Jianwen nodded.

He is familiar with this operation!

Just like excavating most of the tombs in the pre-Qin period, dig directly from top to bottom, and then dig to the top cover, lift the cover, and go directly into the tomb, and you can start work!

In this regard, the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences is definitely professional enough.

"Okay, let's do that!"

This tomb is not deep, from the surface to the wooden roof of the tomb chamber, it is only about two or three meters.

The depth of the tomb, judging from the height of the corridor and the screen wall, is about 2 meters to 2.26 meters.

This is a relatively easy tomb.

It is due to the fact that this is a tomb of the Tuyuhun tribe, not a Han tomb.

So even the nobles of the Tuyuhun tribe, or even the royal family, did not have the habit of digging more than ten meters deep into the ground like the nobles of the Central Plains.

Well, maybe it has something to do with the technology or not.

It is a technical job to excavate a hollow tomb of one to two hundred square meters at a depth of more than ten meters underground.

How to ensure that the soil layer more than ten meters thick will not collapse?
This is a matter of extremely testing the level of site selection.

This is also why the ancients valued "Feng Shui Treasure Land". On the one hand, it really has the bonus of metaphysics.

On the one hand, we must also pay attention to the terrain.

In some terrains, if you dig more than ten meters down, it will definitely collapse.

However, some terrains can live in peace because of the rock layer in the middle.

It is not possible to dig a dozen or 20 meters down casually in any place to build a tomb.

Like Zhao Hu's tomb of the Nanyue King, the reason why he can dig so deep is because half of his tomb is built in rock formations.

After digging into the rock layer nearly 20 meters deep underground, relying on the rock layer, a tomb was dug in, and a lot of stones were used.

According to statistics, more than 700 two-meter-long boulders were used in the entire tomb of the Nanyue King to make walls, load bearings, and roofs, so as to avoid the danger of collapse and keep it so strong for 2000 years.

Even so, half of the Nanyue National Tomb is directly used as a load-bearing rock layer.

For the Huaxia people, this is the construction experience accumulated in units of thousands of years.

In the whole world, only the tombs of ancient Chinese nobles can be buried so deep.

The mausoleums at the imperial level are all in the soil layer of 15-20 meters, and sometimes even go deeper than 20 meters!

This is the experience summed up by generations of people who specialize in digging mausoleums!
That is, these talents who can build the emperor's mausoleum have basically disappeared by now, and the technology has long been lost.

But even if there is technology, it is useless in modern times.

It's all cremated now.

No matter how prominent and awesome his status was during his lifetime.

After death, only the little box is the eternal home.

At most, you can only choose which cemetery you will be buried in after death.

It's amazing, even if you are so awesome, if you can be buried in Babaoshan Cemetery, the cemetery is only a few square meters.

And it's less than one meter deep.

This technique of building an underground palace more than ten meters underground has lost its meaning in modern times.

"How should I clean up the main tomb first?"

"That's a must!"

Professor Ke smiled similarly to Li Chunchao.

A tomb must be the most important main tomb!
Li Chunchao gave a dry cough, and pretended to be serious and said: "Considering that this tomb has been severely robbed and more than 700 pieces of cultural relics have been stolen, the main tomb is definitely the hardest hit."

"So let's excavate the main tomb first!"

"Everyone move!"

　Although the previous technology has been lost, modern people really want to build a tomb more than ten meters underground. It is really not difficult for the current scientific level, and it can be done easily.

　　Just not necessary.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)