Master Archaeologist

Chapter 270 Clearing the Main Coffin
The cleaning of the main coffin will undoubtedly take a long time.

The outer coffin lid was opened, and gold was seen again. The archaeologists at the scene were naturally looking forward to what treasures were hidden in the main coffin.

Their expectations were not disappointed.

"The paint box is here." Kong Jianwen pointed to an area inside the main coffin: "This is the edge of the paint box."

"The top of this box is rectangular."

Chen Han kept nodding beside him.

The funerary objects in the main coffin were compacted.

Everything looked like mud, tightly packed.

However, no matter how hard it is pressed, the outlines of various objects can still be seen clearly.

Especially for square things like lacquer boxes, the color of the box is obviously different from that of other funerary objects, which can be seen at a glance.

This kind of cultural relic that is easiest to see is also the first thing that will be cleaned up and excavated.

Because the contour can be determined, the overall extraction can be carried out according to the general appearance of the contour.

"Look, there are some gold objects under here, so it's not easy to extract them." Kong Jianwen said again.

In addition to those gold cakes and horseshoe gold, there are also some gold utensils made of gold in the main coffin.

Because these gold wares were pressed under other funerary objects, they have been deformed, and it is impossible to see what kind of wares they were originally.

However, because of the good ductility, these gold objects did not break or shatter, at least they remained a complete whole.

It is the follow-up repair work, which is difficult to carry out.

How to restore a squashed gold vessel to its original appearance.

I guess it might take magic.
After spending two days, the archaeological team roughly determined the overlapping relationship between the uppermost cultural relics, and with the help of modern equipment, scanning and positioning were completed, and finally began the stage of extracting cultural relics.

The method of extracting cultural relics is actually nothing mysterious.

It was the same old practice that Chen Han and the others used to extract the gold box under the bed.

Using the method of plastic cloth + iron bars + wooden bars as supports, the cultural relics that have a overlapping relationship with each other are extracted as a whole.

In fact, it is to draw a grid in the main coffin. In each grid, there are several cultural relics superimposed together.

Then, grid by grid, the cultural relics were extracted together with the silk fabric corruption in the coffin.

It's a delicate job, but it's not complicated.

The first thing to extract is the lacquer box.

Because the paint box has been scattered, it is necessary to insert the pallet from all directions around it, and then use the pallet as a support, and then drag the entire paint box up.

Three or four archaeologists worked together, each supporting the other to insert the pallets in. After repeating this several times, all four or five plastic pallets were inserted into the bottom of the lacquer box.

Everyone carefully held the four corners of these pallets. It can be said that at a slow speed of ten seconds and one centimeter, the lacquer box that had been sleeping in the main coffin for more than 2000 years was slowly lifted out of the coffin. up.

Accompanied by the lifting of the lacquer box, screams of exclamation also sounded from the mouths of the surrounding archaeologists.

"Is there something down here?"

"So big?"

"This is jade bi!"

I saw that with the lifting of the lacquer box, the space under the overlapping bottom of the lacquer box gradually revealed to everyone.

It can be clearly seen that under the lacquer box is a very large piece of jade.

Zhuang Yunpeng had quick hands and eyes, and immediately took a soft ruler and started measuring in the air.

"This jade bi is very big. According to the Chinese ruler, it should be one foot two!"

"The preservation is relatively good, and the jade quality is also very exquisite!"

"But it's a pity that it has been broken into two pieces!"

One foot two made in Han Dynasty is roughly equivalent to 30 centimeters today.

A 30cm jade bi is as big as a washbasin for daily use!
Even in modern times, this is a very rare and precious large jade article!

Chen Han and other archaeologists hurried to clean up the pieces of lacquer boxes scattered beside the jade bi.

After cleaning up the other loose pieces, the whole piece of jade bi was fully presented.

As Zhuang Yunpeng said, it may be because of the overlapping, there is a crack in the middle of this jade bi, which divides it into two pieces on the left and right.

However, the cracks are very neat, and there are no broken jade around, which means that when it breaks, it splits directly in an instant, and the degree of damage is not great.

It is indeed relatively well preserved.

"Come on, Xiao Chen, bring another stick!"

A voice of command interrupted Chen Han's admiring gaze of Yubi.

Kong Jianwen, who was extracting a wooden box, called Chen Han for help.

He quickly took out a bamboo stick from his pocket and handed it to Kong Jianwen.

Picking up the bamboo stick, Kong Jianwen inserted it into the corner of the wooden box he was extracting, and tilted it with a little force, half of the wooden box was tilted up, revealing the situation underneath.

"It's connected together, it's not easy to extract, you have to separate the bottom."

After mumbling, Kong Jianwen manipulated two wooden sticks with both hands, and separated the place under the wooden box from other cultural relics with three strokes and five divisions.

Chen Han was greatly benefited from his operation.

You have to be a teacher, professional!

With the insertion of the plastic plate, the wooden box is extracted, and the situation under the wooden box is also exposed.

"Gold plate!"

Gold plate, see gold plate again!
Chen Han, who was a little numb to the goldware, couldn't even bring up the feeling of excitement, he just felt dull.

After a while of busy work, several gold plates were extracted again, and together with the wooden box, they were sent to the temporary cultural security room next to the main coffin.

In the cultural preservation room, several cultural relic restoration personnel in white coats are also engaged in an exciting activity.

Open the blind box!

A lacquer box, a wooden box, and what cultural relics were put in the two blind boxes. Several cultural relics protection personnel were very curious.

Lacquer boxes and wooden boxes are relatively easy to open, after all, wood is not easy to stick to other things.

Without much effort, the two boxes were opened.

However, the cultural relics inside are not so surprising, they can only be said to be expected.

The two boxes are full of jade bi.

Inside the large lacquer box were three jade bis, about ten centimeters in diameter, arranged horizontally.

In the small round wooden box, there is a jade bi.

All four jade discs were shattered into several pieces, but most of them kept the shape of the jade discs.

Holding the special tweezers, pieces of broken jade pieces were picked up and put into the special cleaning solution next to it.

These pieces of jade are very exquisitely made, and they are densely covered with bean-shaped protrusions, which are very beautiful.

However, judging from the texture of the jade, it is all sapphire, not the white Hetian jade.

It seems that even Liu He, who can get Hetian jade from the Western Regions, can't afford to use Hetian jade as a jade bi.

After all, the minimum diameter of a piece of jade bi is more than ten centimeters, even twenty or thirty centimeters.

Obviously, such a large original jade block is difficult to transport from XJ.

"Hey, I can only say that it is expected." The cultural security staff said happily, but also a little disappointed.

(End of this chapter)