Master Archaeologist

Chapter 220

"The tomb visited by tomb robbers really looks like a storm."

Chen Han looked at the indoor situation on the north 2 side with a sigh.

To be honest, the situation is not good.

There were a lot of leather fragments scattered on the ground.

Treated leather is relatively easy to preserve.

However, after thousands of years, the originally strong and tough leather has lost its toughness and shattered into pieces.

It can be seen that the original room on the north side 2 should be specially used for placing leather goods.

Judging from the style of these leather fragments, it can be seen that most of them should be leather boots, horse harnesses, armor accessories, etc.

There may be a lot of leather armor among them.

However, what kind of animal skin these skins are, it cannot be seen with the naked eye.

However, Chen Han guessed that most of them were cowhide.

In ancient times, the mainstream leather products used cowhide as the main raw material at all times and in all over the world.

Although earlier, when Yunmengze had not disappeared, Chudi and Wu Yue used rhinoceros skin and crocodile skin to make leather armor and leather goods.

However, with the disappearance of Yunmengze Wetland and the difficulty of breeding rhinos and crocodiles.

After the Han Dynasty, when it comes to leather goods, you can only use cowhide to make leather.

This is the same whether it is farming culture or nomadic people.

Of course, in a small number of cases, leather goods made of sheepskin will also be used.

However, because leather goods made of sheepskin are far inferior to cowhide in terms of protection and durability, they have not become mainstream.

In ancient times, even in the Qing Dynasty, the peak of the feudal dynasty, the armor worn by professional soldiers was mainly leather armor, not iron armor.

Iron armor has always been a luxury item since ancient times, and at least one must be a small officer to wear it.

Ordinary soldiers, the so-called armor, wear leather armor, paper armor, or rattan armor.

However, don't underestimate the leather armor.

The cowhide armor made with special craftsmanship has a very good defense in the cold weapon era, otherwise it would not have been used by the Chinese for thousands of years.

Countless old scalpers plowed the fields for the Chinese people when they were alive, and after they died of old age, they still had to eat their meat and their skins to make armor.

And when these cows are alive, they only need to eat some pasture and at most some beans to feed them.

It's no wonder that Niu has always had a very positive image in China, hardworking and selfless.

In the north chamber of King Tuyuhun's tomb, a large number of leather fragments were found.

"We...wouldn't want to put all these leather fragments back together." Zhuang Yunpeng said a little autistically.

Chen Han nodded with a serious expression: "Very likely."

"Ever tried puzzles?"

"This is a jigsaw puzzle with 1000 yuan pieces!"

"It's done."

Zhuang Yunpeng hugged his head and cried bitterly, "No way!"

"I'm teasing you." Chen Han rolled his eyes: "Even if I put it together for you, would you know how to do it? Do you know what kind of leather goods can be made out of these leather fragments?"

"Just leave it to the cultural relics restoration agency to do it."

"However, we still need to do the work of cleaning and extracting, and the workload is not small."

According to a rough estimate, there are at least several hundred leather fragments in the not-so-large North 2 side room, and collecting all these fragments is no small task.

As for the entire North 2 side room, only Chen Han, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Lin Ya are in charge.

This is no small task.

Each of the three held a pair of tweezers, squatted on the ground, and began to clean and collect these leather fragments.

After thousands of years, these leathers, which were originally very tough and strong when they were made, are now almost like hard paper in pieces.

If you apply a little more force, it will be crushed into more and smaller pieces.

So when collecting these leathers, everyone's movements are cautious.

I'm afraid that with a little more effort, it will increase the number of cultural relics for the country.

In addition to cleaning and collecting leather fragments, some cultural relics that were not stolen by the tomb robbers, or that were missed, gradually appeared.

Chen Han just cleaned up more than 20 leather fragments, and found a gold hairpin under one of the leather fragments!
"Damn it, there's a lot of goods!"

After having some fun, Chen Han carefully pulled out the golden hairpin inserted into the soil, and called Lin Ya to come and have a look.

"Yo, what a big deal!"

The gold hairpin Chen Han is holding is a golden phoenix hairpin!

The hairpin headdress of this hairpin looks like a standing phoenix with its head up and its tail up, with a curved neck and high head, small round eyes, a hooked beak, and feathers on the back of the head.

The frame of the Lifeng is also surrounded by fine gold millet, and the two hairpin feet are round tubes and hollow.

This phoenix bird stands on one hairpin leg, and the other hairpin leg sticks out from the phoenix bird's chest, broken.

And there is a gold ring on the heel of the front leg of the phoenix bird.

Moreover, this nobile is not only made of gold, the entire body of the phoenix is ​​also inlaid with turquoise on both sides.

According to different parts, turquoise makes different shapes.

Turquoise is divided into dark green and sky blue, and the mosaic of the two colors is irregular.

This is a typical Central Plains style nobile, not Tuyuhun or Tubo style.

In Tuyuhun and Tubo, there is no custom of women wearing golden hairpins!

However, this nobile should be a custom-made model, not something that Tuyuhun people bought randomly from merchants.

Because the wind on the nobile is inlaid with turquoise.

In the Tang Dynasty, the "phoenix" was not something that everyone could wear on their heads at will.

If you are not a princess, if you want to wear Jin Daifeng, then you are definitely overstepping.

Therefore, it is impossible for merchants from the Tang Dynasty to sell this kind of golden phoenix hairpin everywhere.

It is only possible that the king of Tuyuhun sent someone to find a businessman from the Tang Dynasty to order such a golden phoenix hairpin for his wife, and also used turquoise, which has a special meaning in Tubo.

Datang did not have the custom of inlaying windbirds with turquoise!

"It can be seen that King Tuyuhun still loves his wife."

"It's very thoughtful to ask someone to make a golden phoenix hairpin for him."

Chen Han took the golden phoenix hairpin and shined it on the sun.

Even though more than 1000 years have passed, the hairpin body made of gold and the phoenix bird inlaid with turquoise are still shining brightly under the sunshine.

No wonder humans love gold.

This thing is shining, even after thousands of years, it is still so beautiful, how can it not be liked by human beings!
"I also found something here!"

"Old Chen, come over and have a look, what the hell is this!"

Zhuang Yunpeng's shout interrupted Chen Han's appreciation of the golden phoenix hairpin.

He put the golden phoenix hairpin into a box specially reserved for cultural relics, and walked towards Zhuang Yunpeng.

"What did you find?"

One was also shining with golden light, about ten centimeters in length and five or six centimeters in width, which looked a bit like a headgear, and Zhuang Yunpeng handed it to Chen Han.

(End of this chapter)