Master Archaeologist

Chapter 236 Full Case Extraction
"Hey, it's still a float with three horses and two shafts, a high-end car!"

Chen Han and several other colleagues were squatting in the western car garage, cleaning up the even cars in the car garage.

Although, the preservation of these cars is very good, and even the paint on the cars is still colorful.

But after all, more than 2000 years have passed.

The wooden body has collapsed and is covered with a lot of mud.

It is also these silts that protect the car so well.

Those front-line archaeologists, don't expect to be able to restore these even cars.

What Chen Han and the others have to do now is to clean up the silt, and then put these deformed and collapsed cars into the hypoxic equipment, and transport them to the cultural preservation center.

Now there are hundreds of professional cultural relic restoration workers who are waiting for the cultural relics unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Haihun to carry out restoration work on them.

Chen Han and the others don't need to worry about these things.

Inside the tomb of Marquis Haihun, there are no mysterious institutions as imagined by outside rumors.

Yes, the news about the discovery of the tomb of Marquis Haihun in Nanchang has already made a lot of noise on the Internet.

As a large archaeological project of the "National Brand", both the official and private media are very concerned about it.

Liu He, Marquis of Haihun, was little known before the tomb was discovered.

But when this high-level tomb suspected to be Liu He's tomb was discovered in Nanchang, this "faint monarch" who lived 2000 years ago, once became an emperor, and almost replaced Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty immediately became famous in China.

There are many marketing accounts on the Internet with various interpretations of Liu He's life introduction.

Of course, no matter how you interpret it, all marketing accounts have the same conclusion about this tomb.

That is, there are definitely a lot of treasures in this tomb!
After all, this is the tomb of the emperor who died!
Moreover, many marketing accounts also use various tomb robbery novels as examples.

It is said that there may be boulders, quicksand, mercury, anti-theft mechanisms, curses and the like in the tomb.

Anyway, I can write whatever gimmick there is, but it attracts netizens to read it very enthusiastically.

But in fact, there is nothing mysterious about this ancient tomb.

In reality, very few ancient tombs will actually set up those legendary organs.

There are no back arrows, poisons, traps or anything like that.

On the one hand, it is because, in ancient times, the tombs of princes and generals would have corresponding gravekeepers.

There are even some tomb guards, who later evolved into tomb guard villages, which still exist until modern times.

For example, the Taojia Village in front of Zijin City next door was probably built for the tomb guards of Marquis Haihun.

There has always been a legend of a "king's tomb" in their village.

Maybe they were the ancestors of Taojia Village back then, responsible for guarding the tomb of Marquis Haihun.

On the other hand, even if you use tricks in the ancient tomb, it won't have much effect.

The ancients were not fools.

They know that any mechanism made of wood, iron, or bronze will lose its function if it falls into disrepair.

And a tomb is at least calculated in millennia.

How could there be an ancient craftsman who was so foolish as to think that by setting up some mechanism in the ancient tomb, it would be able to prevent theft for thousands of years?

They also know very well that this mechanism is just for psychological comfort and can prevent it for four or five years.

For princes, is it meaningful to prevent theft for four or five years?
Which dynasty would dare to steal the tombs of the princes of this generation before it perished?

If you really dare to do this, let alone the nine tribes, even the eggs laid by the mother machine at home have to be shaken!
Therefore, in Haihunhou's tomb, there is actually no anti-theft means.

It is very easy for everyone to enter the corridor.

After entering the tomb, the archaeologists immediately understood why the tomb was well preserved.

This was again the result of luck.

First of all, the craftsman who built this tomb had taken sufficient protection measures.

Like Mr. Sui's tomb, the soil on this tomb also has three layers of covering, one layer of white plaster mud, one layer of sand, and one layer of carbon.

These three layers of sealing soil are very good at isolating the entry of oxygen.

Especially carbon and white paste mud, one is oxygen-absorbing, and the other is very fine in texture, which can well block the entry of air.

But these alone are not enough.

What's more important is the right time and place.

After the tomb of Marquis Haihun was buried, the groundwater level rose over time, and the surface runoff passed through the ancient tomb, and the water flow was stable. The ancient tomb in place provided a very good maintenance condition.

Then, there was the unexpected earthquake.

Because of the earthquake, it sank directly into Poyang Lake.

A large amount of sand and lake water poured into the tomb.

In the corridors and the East-West carriage garage, there are traces of a large amount of silt accumulation on these even carriages.

And these silts were washed from Poyang Lake.

And even now, the silt is still wet, a bit like the bottom of a lotus pond.

This humid and watery environment is very beneficial to the preservation of wood products and lacquerware.

This is also the reason why the floats with three horses and two shafts in the chariot garage can still retain the paint color.

After removing part of the silt covering the car body, the black and red paint on the car body can still exude bright colors!

After discovering this, Kong Jianwen immediately stopped the cleaning work, and simply asked everyone to use the box directly to extract these even cars from the whole box, and transport them to the laboratory built in the archaeological base.

As we all know, the brightly colored lacquerware in ancient tombs will oxidize rapidly when exposed to oxygen.

In order to maintain this fleeting beauty.

The best protection method is to soak the lacquerware in water as soon as it is unearthed, and then put it in a low-oxygen environment.

These few cars, even if they are scaled down, each car has a length and width of half a meter to more than one meter.

Moreover, in the process of cleaning the silt, maybe a piece of the front has just been cleaned, and the silt at the back has not been cleaned yet, and the lacquered wood in the front will oxidize quickly when it comes into contact with oxygen.

If small objects such as paint trays and cups are okay, they can be put into a low-oxygen storage cabinet after being directly fished out of the mud.

These even cars can't do it.

Therefore, the best way is not to clean up the site at all.

Kong Jianwen took a few old professors to measure the size of the puppets buried under the mud with a ruler and eyes, and then directed Chen Han and his coolies to draw a picture around the puppets. A square grid.

These grids, together with the car and mud, all enclosed it inside.

Then, the detachable large boxes for packaging were sent to the garage.

After adjusting the box to a suitable size, the cars were extracted together with the mud, put directly into the box, and quickly filled with anaerobic water.

"Send all these even cars to the laboratory in the base."

"The group of laboratory archaeologists have been waiting for a long time."

"We'll find them some work too!"

(End of this chapter)