Master Archaeologist

Chapter 228 Steal Wrong?Steal to the next door?

Although it is said that the Bureau of Cultural Relics has approved the rescue excavation of the stolen Han Dynasty tomb in Dundun Mountain.

However, archaeologists did not just dig.

Before the official excavation, a complete archaeological exploration work must be done.

On April 4, the archaeological team from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences arrived in Nanchang the next day.

A comprehensive and systematic archaeological survey of the area of ​​five square kilometers around the stolen tomb has officially begun.

A total of more than 50 archaeologists from three archaeological institutes, with Luoyang shovels and modern technological archaeological equipment, started field investigation work near Mt. Dundun.

The so-called fieldwork is actually digging holes everywhere.

Luoyang shovels, one by one, continuously dug holes with a depth of at least 15 meters within a radius of five kilometers to explore the situation near the stolen tombs.

This is absolutely impossible for grave robbers to do.

Tomb thieves only care about whether there are treasures in the main tomb, not how big the tomb occupies, why it is here, whether there are other important ruins around it, and whether it should be protected in a targeted manner.

These are things that only archaeologists consider.

Facts have proved that doing field exploration is a very meaningful thing.

With the deepening of the exploration work, the three archaeological teams gradually figured out the geological strata of the Han Dynasty within the range of Dundun Mountain.

Not only the cemetery of this tomb was discovered, but also a series of important relics of the Haihunhou state with the ruins of Zijin City, the cemetery of Haihunhou of all dynasties, and the cemetery of nobles and commoners Wei core were also discovered.

The site of Zijin City in the Han Dynasty was the capital of Haihunhou.

After discovering the city wall of the Zijin City ruins, two other Liehou cemeteries with cemeteries were discovered within a five-kilometer radius around the city.

And just north of the stolen cemetery, an ancestral hall post was discovered.

To the east of the ancestral hall, there is a cemetery for commoners and nobles.

As a result, the archaeological team found out the settlement site of Haihunhou State, which is composed of the capital of Haihunhou, the cemetery area, nobles and general burial areas. The entire site covers an area of ​​5 square kilometers.

This is the first time in the history of Huaxia archaeology and Han Dynasty archaeology that such a complete set of ruins including the capital city, cemetery area, nobles and general burial areas have been discovered!
This site group is the largest, best-preserved, and richest Han Dynasty settlement site discovered in Huaxia!

It is an important national historical and cultural heritage!
It is the most unique large site for studying the history of the Western Han Dynasty!

The discovery of this site alone is enough to be called one of the century-old discoveries of Huaxia archaeology!
Through this site, Chinese archaeologists can clearly and deeply understand the important cultural heritage of the Western Han Dynasty in terms of history, society, humanities, tombs, etc.!

No need to have any gold and silver artifacts!

This group of ruins alone is enough for Chinese archaeologists to study for more than ten years!

On the contrary, those stolen gold and silverware are not very important.

Many gold and silver artifacts and funerary objects of the Han Dynasty, and even golden jade clothes, have been unearthed in the past, and these things are not too rare.

But such a cultural relic of the Han Dynasty is really rare.

After all, after 2000 years of vicissitudes, most of the old cities and ruins of the Han Dynasty have disappeared early due to wars or human development.

It is difficult to find in the soil layer.

Because many ancient city walls that still exist today are superimposed on the city walls of previous dynasties.

For example, the old city wall of Zhengzhou, the city wall of the Ming Dynasty, the city wall of the Tang and Song Dynasties, the city wall of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the city wall of the Qin and Han Dynasties are superimposed below.

It is impossible to discover the cultural layer beneath it.

Unless all the ancient city above is demolished!

But this Zijin City site is different. It is a site buried deep in the ground after the Han Dynasty, and there is no city wall superimposed on it.

It only needs to dig up the soil, and the appearance of the capital city of the Hou Kingdom in the Western Han Dynasty will be presented to modern people without any resistance.

Of course, in addition to the Zijin City site, the most important stolen cemetery is also a key exploration area.

The survey results show that the stolen Haihunhou cemetery covers an area of ​​about 4 square meters, with a trapezoidal plane and 868-meter-long cemetery walls.

And this tomb is centered on Hou's tomb, surrounded by various ground building foundations such as ancestral halls, sleeping halls, side halls, wing rooms, cemetery walls, roads, and drainage systems.

Most importantly, there is not only one tomb in the cemetery.

In addition to the main tomb M1, there are eight tombs from M2 to M9.

Among them, tomb No. M2 is presumed to be the tomb of Mrs. Hou, and it is also the one that was stolen!
That's right!

After half a year of investigation, a very surprising news was confirmed.

The stolen tomb is not the main tomb of this cemetery!
At first, everyone thought this tomb was the tomb of Marquis Haihun. After all, the depth was 15 meters, and the location of the robbery cave was on a large seal.

However, when the archaeologists conducted a detailed exploration of the entire Dundunshan area, they found that there was another seal on the right side of the robbed tomb!
These two towering mounds are all overgrown with weeds and thorns.

If you look at it from a distance, it looks like two naturally formed hills.

Moreover, from the outside, the mound of soil on the left is larger than that on the right.

Because the knowledge level of the tomb thieves is somewhat lacking, judging from the appearance alone, the tomb on the left is larger, so they think that the tomb on the left is the main tomb, and they rob the main tomb of the tomb on the left.

However, Chen Han, who is doing archaeology, knows it very well.

In the Han Dynasty, the right was respected!
The Nanyue king's tomb was excavated before, but this matter has just been verified!

Moreover, when the archaeologists cleaned up all the weeds and bushes covering the two seals, they could also find that the seal on the right is actually bigger than the left!
It is only because the weeds and bushes on the left side of the soil grow more densely that it looks bigger on the left side.

That is to say, in fact, the tomb on the right is the main tomb of this cemetery, that is, tomb M1!

The stolen tomb on the left is actually tomb No. M2. According to the positions of the two tombs, it is obvious that this is the tomb of a couple.

The tomb on the left is the tomb of Mrs. Haihunhou, and the tomb on the right is the tomb of Haihunhou!
Because the group of tomb robbers found the wrong main tomb, Haihunhou's tomb survived and was not stolen!

But the main tomb of Mrs. Haihunhou's tomb was completely stolen by these tomb robbers.

This also explains why the archaeologists who went down did not see the bamboo slips in the main tomb.

As the wife of Marquis Haihun, although it is said that there is no woman without talent in the Han Dynasty, it is a virtue, but there is a high probability that there will not be a large number of bamboo slips recording knowledge in the tomb of a lady.

Only some scattered wooden tablets recording the list of funerary goods may exist, but it is estimated that they were taken away by the tomb robbers.

As in the tombs of the Han Dynasty that have been excavated in the past, there are books of bamboo slips, which will not appear in the tomb of the wife!
This also made all archaeological staff breathe a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, although the wife's tomb has been stolen, the more important tomb of Lord Haihun has not been stolen. This is luck among misfortunes!

In addition to these two tombs, there are seven other tombs in the cemetery, but the specifications of these seven tombs are not comparable to those of Liehou.

There is a high probability that it is the attached tomb, that is, the high-ranking nobles of Haihunhou who were buried with them.

It was normal in the Han Dynasty for nobles to bury their lords with them after their death.

Especially those with cemetery specifications, whether it is the emperor's tomb or the tomb of princes and kings, there are a bunch of subordinates buried in the cemetery.

And this kind of burial was considered a kind of honor in the Han Dynasty.

If the courtiers of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could be buried with Maoling after death, it would be a great honor!

The same is true of the vassals of Haihunhou.

(End of this chapter)