Master Archaeologist

Chapter 230 Soaked in Poyang Lake for a Year
The excavation of the main tomb of M1 is not an easy task.

If you want to excavate this tomb, you have to bulldoze the seven-meter-high sealing soil above it.

After flattening the soil, the tomb was dug another eight meters into the ground.

Then, the surrounding filling soil was cleaned up, and after the entire tomb was completely unearthed, the top cover of the tomb chamber was opened to officially enter the tomb for excavation.

This is a big project.

When some archaeologists led migrant workers to clean up the tomb passage.

More large-scale machinery was transferred to the construction site to start bulldozing the soil.

With the addition of modern machinery and equipment, one side after another was quickly shoveled away.

It only took a month, and the seven-meter-high sealing soil, plus the eight-meter-deep burial filling, were all cleared away.

The area occupied by the entire tomb can also be clearly seen from the top of the pit.

The actual area of ​​the tomb is only about 17 square meters. If the passage is not included, it is a square, 17 meters wide from east to west and [-] meters long from north to south.

The roof of this tomb is made of common wooden boards, which is similar to that of Mr. Sui's tomb.

However, the wooden boards used in this large tomb are only [-] to [-] centimeters wide and several meters or even tens of meters long, and they are built like long benches to seal the roof.

Moreover, it is precisely because these boards are of different lengths and are artificially separated.

So although everyone has not yet entered the tomb, the structure of the tomb can be seen from the top of the tomb.

"The one in the middle should be the main coffin chamber."

"The front is the corridor, and there are two side rooms on both sides of the corridor."

"There are also two side rooms on the left and right of the main coffin chamber, but the side room on the left seems to be divided into two halves."

"The back of the main coffin chamber is a bit messy. It looks like there are seven or eight small tomb chambers. I don't know what each tomb chamber contains, but it should be the back storage chamber. It contains musical instruments, grain depots, wine vessels, Armory or something."

Professor Li led everyone from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences, standing on the top of the pit, pointing to the top of the tomb at the bottom of the pit, explaining piece by piece.

Huaxia archeology has excavated a lot of tombs of princes, kings and princes in the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, Professor Li is also very clear about the tomb configuration of Han Dynasty tombs.

He can also roughly distinguish the functions of these "small rooms" through the areas divided by the top cover plate on the top of the tomb.

More importantly, there is good news.

There is no robbery hole in the main coffin chamber of Haihunhou's tomb!
Only in the upper left corner of the entire tomb, there is a circular robbery hole, which penetrates into the tomb.

"Hahaha, none of the dozens of robbery holes found near Fengtu broke into the main tomb. It seems that the level of these tomb robbers is not good either!"

Professor Li smiled happily.

If there is no hole in the main coffin chamber, it is basically certain that the main coffin chamber has not been stolen.

Tomb robbery in reality and tomb robbery in TV dramas are two different things.

In the tomb robbery in the TV series, the protagonist uses various methods to reach the main entrance of the tomb, then enters the tomb through the main entrance, wanders around in various ways, finds treasures in various ways, and finally enters the main tomb to fight the "Zongzi".

But in reality, tomb robbers don't have such a large room for movement.

In the tombs of ordinary nobles, every tomb is full of things, and there is no place to set foot.

Therefore, usually after the tomb robbers get through the robbery hole, wherever they enter, they can only steal the treasure there.

For example, if a robbery hole is broken into the side room, then all the burial cultural relics in the side room can only be taken away.

It is no longer possible for tomb robbers to go to other tombs in the tomb through the side chamber.

What do you think?
Even archaeologists have to take months as a unit when cleaning tombs, and they can only enter the next tomb after they have been cleaned from one tomb to the next.

Otherwise, if the door is blocked by funeral objects, how could it be unblocked.

To be more realistic, when these tombs were built, the craftsmen never considered that there would be people walking around in the tombs in the future.

Even people in the Han Dynasty believed that there was a "soul" after death, and they would still live in the underground palace.

But the soul is definitely different from the body. People in the Han Dynasty already believed that the soul could float around like a wisp of green smoke.

So even in the tombs of some princes and kings, aisles are set up for the passage of souls.

But these aisles are generally very narrow.

Moreover, each tomb must be full of things, and the doors are locked.

The tomb robbers who entered the tomb through the robbery hole, in addition to being able to move in the tomb they entered, and after finding some cultural relics, they can only return through the robbery hole.

It is impossible to walk around in the tomb with swagger.

No such conditions!
To clean up the large tomb, the archaeological team had to dig out all the sealing soil of more than ten meters above, dig out the entire tomb, and then lift the top cover to connect the side chambers at will.

It's not a big deal to just make a robbery hole one or two meters square and want to pass through the tomb room unimpeded!

Therefore, for tomb robbers, digging holes is a technical job.

It is undoubtedly the best situation if the robbery hole can be drilled directly into the main coffin, because most of the treasures of the owner of the tomb, and the most important treasures, are placed in the main coffin and the coffin.

If you don't hit the main tomb, but hit the back storage room or the side room, it's okay, and you can steal some valuable treasures.

Afterwards, if you are more ambitious, you can go back to the ground, continue to find the location of the main tomb, and continue to try to dig holes.

But obviously.

The luck of this tomb No. M1 is very good. Over a thousand years, more than a dozen robbery holes have been dug down. None of the robbery holes penetrated into the main coffin chamber, and only one penetrated into the farthest corner. It is estimated that not many valuable things were stolen.

In other words, this tomb M1 may be a tomb that has not been robbed at all!

This shows that there are a large number of cultural relics of the Han Dynasty, even bamboo slips, lying quietly in the tomb, waiting for the discovery of archaeologists!
"Haihunhou's tomb has not been stolen. At present, there are two practical reasons."

Wen Yuangen, who was also observing the situation of the tomb, also introduced the research results to them.

"This robbery hole that entered the tomb should be from the Five Dynasties period."

"However, this group of tomb robbers of the fifth generation did not find the location of the main tomb. They just dug a hole in the corner. In such a corner, it is probably a tomb with some sundries, maybe kitchen utensils, or Put chicken, duck and fish."

"The group of tomb robbers did not find the location of the main chamber."

"As for why there are no tomb robbers to care about after that."

"Thank God for that."

"In 318 A.D., there was a major earthquake in Yuzhang County. The earthquake caused the water level to rise, and the original Yuzhang counties such as Xiaoyang County and Haihun County were submerged in Poyang Lake."

"This tomb located in Haihun County has become an unattainable task for tomb robbers to continue digging."

"It was also because of the earthquake that the original location of the tomb was changed, so after the water level lowered and the two tombs resurfaced, it was difficult for other tomb robbers to find the main tomb according to the method of sealing soil and the so-called secret method of fixing points." turn up."

"The tomb was thus preserved."

"The Zijin City, the capital of the Marquis of Haihun in the Han Dynasty, was also able to preserve the ruins of this ancient city because Haihun County was submerged in Poyang Lake."

Chen Han was slightly stunned: "That is to say, in the past, this Dundun Mountain, together with the nearby Zijin City, was part of Poyang Lake for a long time?"

"After the water level dropped in the past few hundred years, did this place become land again?"

"Hey, then this tomb has been soaked in lake water for hundreds of years!"

　Mid-Autumn Festival, a chapter of holiday, rest and rest.

　　
　
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