Master Archaeologist

Chapter 234

"Open the tomb?"

"open!"

Standing outside the tomb, Kong Jianwen and Wen Yuangen looked at each other, and they jointly made the decision to open the tomb.

And behind them, stood a group of scientific and technological archaeologists holding various high-tech instruments.

Back then, when the terracotta warriors and horses of the Qin Mausoleum were unearthed, they were all in color, and they were oxidized immediately after unearthed.Surface color fades to tan within hours.

Therefore, how to protect the cultural relics unearthed this time is also the most concerned issue.

As we all know, before the archaeological excavation, the underground cultural relics and the closed burial environment have formed a relatively balanced system.

As long as this system is not broken, the corrosion and deterioration of the internal cultural relics will be controlled in a stable and slow process.

This is also a cultural relic that can still retain its original state after being unearthed for thousands of years.

For example, the stainless bronze sword found in the Fenghuangshan Han Tombs.

However, after the cultural relics are unearthed, this balance will be broken immediately.

Oxygen-rich air will quickly oxidize cultural relics.

Changes in the humidity and temperature of the environment will also cause the uneven evaporation of moisture on the surface of cultural relics, resulting in rapid drying and cracking and deformation.

And all kinds of Wei, Shu and Wu, which are invisible to the human eye, will also grow rapidly with the entry of archaeologists, causing harm to cultural relics.

Even light will accelerate the oxidation and decomposition of cultural relics.

If the excavation this time is an ordinary tomb, or a tomb whose identity is uncertain.

There is no way for archaeologists to make targeted protection of on-site cultural relics.

But this time the tomb of Marquis Haihun in Nanchang is different.

First of all, without entering the tomb, everyone has basically confirmed that this is the tomb of the first Haihunhou.

Second, through geography and literature research, it can be known that the tomb had been submerged before.

Although it later resurfaced.

However, the location of the tomb at a depth of more than ten meters underground should have been in a very humid environment.

Dry thousands of years, wet ten thousand years!

It can be predicted that the preservation of cultural relics in this tomb must be very good.

That being the case, if the archaeological staff enters the tomb and destroys the protection of the cultural relics, they will be to blame for death.

If you put it in the past, even a year ago.

Faced with this predicament, there is no other way but to forcibly excavate.

Because the robbery hole has been found, and there are still robbery holes that have penetrated into the tomb, even if it is only penetrated to the farthest corner of the tomb, it means that the tomb has been stolen.

Since it was stolen, it is necessary to rescue it.

Because no one knows what the situation in the tomb is like now, maybe because the tomb robbers entered the tomb, the balance in the tomb has been destroyed, and maybe a large part of the cultural relics have been oxidized at an accelerated rate.

Moreover, it is difficult to protect the tomb after such a big commotion.

Not afraid of thieves stealing, but afraid of thieves thinking.

If there is no rescue excavation this time, sooner or later, this tomb will be dug by tomb robbers.

In the face of tomb robbers, the current cultural relics protection personnel have no way to fully prevent them.

There is really no way to protect the cemetery area with a radius of more than 1 square meters and the five-kilometer ruins area.

So we can only bite the bullet and do rescue excavation first.

However, it is different now.

Previously, the higher authorities ordered to suspend the excavation of the main tomb in order to deploy a series of high-tech archaeological equipment.

A series of equipment specially deployed from Huaxia University of Science and Technology for the protection of cultural relics are all high-tech instruments.

Mobile hypoxic gas workstation, hypoxic studio, hypoxic storage cabinet, ancient corpse hypoxic storage cabinet, vacuum hypoxic sealed storage device...

A series of hypoxic chain systems, as well as complete sets of equipment, are first applied to the protection of archaeological relics.

These devices were not used in the field of archaeology before, but were widely used in the aerospace industry, national defense and military and other weapon protection fields.

In the past, it was used for protection in the field of missiles, to prevent its chemical, electrochemical and mildew damage.

simply put.

In the past, the big mushrooms in our country were sealed with these devices!

It is the first time in China to use these high-tech equipment in the field of archaeology!
With the help of these devices, a hypoxic environment can be created directly.

Once important cultural relics are unearthed, they can be sealed in a low-oxygen space.

This protects the oxidation of cultural relics to the greatest extent.

It can be said that solving the oxidation problem can basically solve the problem of 90% of the unearthed cultural relics being damaged.

After all, oxygen is the worst enemy of all things.

In a vacuum environment like space, even a corpse would never undergo any corruption.

Even if it floats in space for 1 years, it can be preserved well.

A completely vacuum environment cannot be created with mobile equipment for the time being.

But in a hypoxic environment, it can be done.

When these devices are in use, the 20-square-meter hypoxic workstation can generate and output pure nitrogen with an oxygen content of less than 1% and a relative humidity that can be adjusted within the range of 20% to 80%, so as to maintain the oxygen concentration and humidity in the studio at the set level. within a certain range.

The hypoxic workstation has the function of vacuuming and nitrogen filling, and with the special storage bag, the cultural relics that have been cleaned can be packed in hypoxia in time.

In addition, the hypoxic workstation also has the functions of high-pressure air bottle filling, video closed-circuit monitoring, antibacterial, purification and oxygenation.

Hypoxic storage cabinets and ancient corpse hypoxic storage cabinets can realize long-term hypoxic storage of cleaned unearthed cultural relics.

These devices are now tuned.

The immediate protection of cultural relics unearthed at the excavation site will be realized by comprehensively regulating the oxygen content, humidity, trace gases and microorganisms of the gas in the hypoxic studio.

It was also with the technical support provided by these technological archaeologists that Kong Jianwen and Wen Yuangen made the decision to start excavating the main tomb when the time came.

After cleaning up all the filling soil covering the tomb, more than 30 archaeologists descended to the level of the tomb through the tomb passage that goes straight down to the entrance of the tomb.

As soon as it went down, an indescribable smell immediately rushed into Chen Han's nose.

What can an ancient tomb taste like?

If you ask the archaeologists.

Everyone's first reaction is the smell of rancidity, or the suffocation caused by lack of oxygen, and the special smell of dead wood.

However, what they didn't expect at all was.

After approaching this ancient tomb that has been around for more than [-] years, the first thing it smelled was not any pungent and unpleasant smell.

It was a strange fragrance constantly emanating from the ancient tomb!
"It smells good."

"It smells good, and it has a very strange fragrance."

"I've never smelled such an aroma."

"I can't tell what the scent is, it's like the smell of wood, and it's like the smell of spices."

All the archaeologists who went down to the tomb kept discussing with shock on their faces.

This kind of peculiar plot can only appear in fantasy tomb robbery novels.

It actually happened in reality!
The ancient tomb buried deep in the ground for 2000 years actually exudes a strange fragrance after seeing the sun again!
Chen Han raised his head in a murmur: "This ancient tomb is definitely not simple!"

(End of this chapter)