Master Archaeologist

Chapter 240, the text written 2000 years ago, stretched out.

Haihunhou is worthy of the title "Treasure Boy" given to him by the archaeologists.

His tomb is really full of great treasures.

However, the cleaning work in the tomb has just begun.

Two discoveries that are enough to change the history of China are competing to be released.

A distiller suspected to be from the Western Han Dynasty, and the native peanuts of the Western Han Dynasty placed inside.

The other is a box full of Cordyceps sinensis, which pushes back the exchanges between the Central Dynasty and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau by hundreds of years, and pushes back the medicinal history of Cordyceps by thousands of years!

Just these two discoveries.

If it can be determined to be true.

One is enough to enter the top international journals, and it will be published in two consecutive issues.

The other one is enough to cause a sensation in the circles of traditional Chinese medicine and history in China, and re-write history!

Any one of the tombs, as long as one of them is found, is enough to cause a sensation throughout the country.

But for Haihunhou's tomb, this shocking discovery is just the beginning.

Judging from the current excavation situation, the coffin chamber had collapsed in the early years and there was groundwater, so the previous robbed excavations did not cause major damage to the tomb.

This is very rare in the excavation of high-level tombs of the Han Dynasty across the country.

If it was not destroyed by tomb robbers, it means that there will be a lot of important cultural relics of the Han Dynasty in this tomb!

In terms of archeology in the Han Dynasty in China, this is really a rare blessing in decades!

On the other side, the team members of the Jiangxi Archaeological Institute and the Nanchang Archaeological Institute who were cleaning the XZ room also discovered a lot of shocking things.

Even in terms of value, it may be more important than Dongzangshi's side!

In room XZ, there is a storage room full of bamboo slips of documents!

The text information in the XZ room is very rich, and the cultural connotation is profound!
In this storage room of bamboo slips, there are thousands of bamboo slips and wooden slips!
Most of the bamboo slips were all shrunk into a ball, piled up in the corner like a pile of mud.

However, as professional archaeologists, everyone at the Jiangxi Institute of Archeology recognized at a glance that all these "muds" were bamboo slips and wooden slips!
This kind of "mud" can only be formed when bamboo slips and wooden slips are piled up!
Before Haihunhou's tomb, there were already countless precedents!

However, there are so many books and bamboo slips that even fill up the entire collection room, which is still the most concentrated discovery in the archaeology of the Han Dynasty in the whole country!
Although, none of these bamboo slips could read the writing on them clearly, and some of them had shrunk more severely, and even curled up to the size of a hair.

However, this is not a problem.

With the technical support of Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Protection Center, these bamboo slips can be restored to their original appearance!
Yes, with the support of Jingzhou Cultural Relics Center, the most professional institution for restoration of lacquered woodware and bamboo slips in the world, Chinese archaeologists are not at all worried about whether they can restore the bamboo slips dug out!
The news that a large number of bamboo slips were found in the XZ room was quickly spread to the Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Center.

In order to avoid damage when the bamboo slips are extracted on site.

After all, the preservation of these bamboo slips is already very average.

The original hard bamboo slips have long since become puddles of "mud" that is more mushy than overcooked noodles, and some black threads shrunk into the shape of hair.

Archaeologists from Jiangxi Institute of Archeology and Nanchang Institute of Archeology have no idea about the extraction of bamboo slips.

After all, Jiangxi was actually a cultural desert in the past.

Not to mention the Western Han Dynasty, even in the Three Kingdoms period, southern China was not a place with a flourishing literary style, and there were not many scholars.

Moreover, the most important center of scholars in the south is in Jingzhou, not the former Huaiyi land like Jiangxi.

It wasn't until the end of the Western Jin Dynasty that the style of writing in Jiangxi gradually flourished after the clothes went south.

By that time, the bamboo slips had basically been eliminated. During the Western Jin and Eastern Jin Dynasties, the manufacture of paper had matured and basically replaced the role of bamboo slips.

Naturally, in Jiangxi and other places, there are very few bamboo slips unearthed.

Although it is not completely absent, the archaeological team members of Jiangxi and Nanchang Archaeological Institutes are still relatively unprofessional in terms of bamboo slips, especially the on-site extraction techniques of water-saturated bamboo slips.

Not even a major in the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences.

Authorities in this area have to be the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute and the Jingzhou Cultural Heritage Center.

After receiving the news that a large number of bamboo slips and wooden tablets were found in the tomb of Haihunhou in Nanchang.

The bamboo slip restoration department of the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center, together with the professional bamboo slip extraction staff of the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute, immediately brought a lot of professional on-site bamboo slip extraction equipment, reagents, and chemicals to Nanchang.

Mr. Fang Beisong, the director of the Jingzhou Cultural Relic Protection Center and an expert in bamboo slip restoration, personally led the team and the backbone of the bamboo slip restoration department to the front line.

Mr. Chen Shuren, whom Chen Han had met at the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center, was also among them.

His teacher is Mr. Fang Beisong!
A group of more than ten experts supported by the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center arrived at the tomb of Marquis Haihun in Nanchang. They didn't even have time to exchange pleasantries, so they immediately put themselves into the on-site extraction of bamboo slips.

By sampling the scattered bamboo slips in the XZ room which has been named "Document Archives".

Soon, the bamboo slip restoration expert team classified the bamboo slips in the storage room.

Among them, bamboo slips, which are easier to extract and not so fragile, are directly separated and extracted on site.

As for some of the bamboo slips, which were poorly preserved and had completely turned into a puddle of mud, and could not be extracted on site, the method of peeling off the whole box was adopted.

It was still the same, directly connect the mud with the bamboo slips, dig a big hole, pack them all up and take them back to the research room, soak them in the potion specially used to stabilize the molecular structure of the bamboo slips, and then peel them off further.

In addition, there are still some bamboo slips that have shrunk to the size of a hair and are completely curled up. The bamboo slips were restored on site, and then soaked in the cetyl alcohol protective solution used for preservation of the bamboo slips, and then transported back to Jingzhou for further processing. Subsequent dehydration treatment.

Among them, the on-site restoration of bamboo slips is the most interesting.

Even everyone from the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences next door, after hearing the news, stopped their work and came to join in the fun.

When Chen Han came to the document archives, he happened to meet Mr. Chen Shuren, who picked up a piece of bamboo slips about eight or nine centimeters in length with a small tweezers, but the width was not much wider than a hair, and it was curled into a ball. stuff, put it into a glass dish filled with a special liquid.

I saw that this "bamboo slip" curled up into a ball, after being put into these transparent liquids, part of the liquid quickly turned into a yellowish turbid substance.

And the bamboo slips soaked in the middle slowly began to "stretch"!

It looked like a person bowing like a shrimp, slowly straightening his waist and stretching his waist!
Looking at the curled up bamboo slip, which was only the size of a hair, it slowly began to straighten, stretch, and swell.

Chen Han muttered to himself in shock: "The words written 2000 years ago stretched their waists, and slowly woke up from the dust of history."

(End of this chapter)