Master Archaeologist

Chapter 274 Uncover the inner coffin!

Although the matter of the copper coins in the treasury was really shocking when I saw it.

But in fact, it is not troublesome to deal with this matter, it's just that the archaeologists at Nanchang Institute lack experience.

With a few pointers, they will naturally know what to do with these copper coins.

And after being addicted to the eyes and seeing the scene of "permanent and undeniable", the backbones of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Jiangxi Institute of Archaeology naturally did not forget their business.

For them, opening the inner coffin is the most important thing!
After briefly explaining how the people in the Nanchang Office handled the money bank, Kong Jianwen and Director Wen quickly took Chen Han and the others, a group of a dozen people, to the place less than two meters away from the tomb of Marquis Haihun. Kilometers away in the archaeological base.

At this time, the inner coffin of Haihunhou had been placed in a specially prepared laboratory.

The gigantic coffin was given a super-vigilant treatment.

If this is really Liu He's coffin, then he deserves to be treated like this.

Different from the surprise and urgency of the previous days, the opening of the coffin is approaching, so it is even more necessary to be calm and cautious.

The box of the coffin is tailor-made according to the original shape of the coffin, which is lower in the south and higher in the north.

It is very cumbersome to put on this suitcase.

It is also very cumbersome to remove.

Even with the help of a crane, the inner coffin was hoisted in mid-air.

However, it still took Chen Han and the others an afternoon of work to remove the outer box fixed by steel bars and wooden boards.

Obviously, there is no way to open the coffin today.

After the coffin was sent to the hypoxic laboratory for storage, everyone went back to rest temporarily to recharge their batteries.

Take enough rest and wait until everyone is back in good spirits.

Early the next morning, thirteen archaeologists from the two archaeological institutes gathered at the archaeological base, preparing to officially open the coffin.

The method of opening the inner coffin cover is actually no different from the previous coffin openings that Chen Han participated in.

It is nothing more than raising a corner with a wooden stick first, and then inserting wooden strips into it.

From top to bottom, they were tilted up one by one, and after inserting a total of six wooden bars, the coffin cover was basically separated from the coffin body.

The crane was also used to connect the six wooden bars to the hooks of the crane, and with the help of the strength of the wooden bars, the cover was lifted by the crane.

It's interesting to say.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, or the logistics staff did it specially.

The ropes used to reinforce the coffin boards and wooden bars are all red ropes.

When tying the red rope, Chen Han couldn't help laughing and said, "Is this a zombie movie?"

"Can you suppress zombies with a red rope?"

"I don't know if the logistics team has prepared glutinous rice to exorcise evil spirits"

In the classic zombie movies on Hong Kong Island, if you encounter a zombie and want to control it, you must tie the coffin tightly with a red rope so that it does not break out.

But in fact, in the movie, eleven out of ten zombies will still be bound by the red rope and break out of the level.

On such a serious occasion, Chen Han really couldn't hold back when he saw the thick red rope that was so red!
But Kong Jianwen gave him a very serious look, and said in a low voice: "This is also the intention of the logistics staff!"

"Although we are materialists, some innocuous customs can still be respected!"

Chen Han murmured amusedly: "But the red rope has to be tied to the coffin to be useful. It doesn't seem to be useful just to connect the crane and the coffin board."

"The logistics staff don't know what we are going to do with the rope!" Kong Jianwen glared at Chen Han again.

This time, Chen Han didn't dare to talk back anymore, he lowered his head and hurried to help.

After the coffin board was transferred away, Lin Ya and several other female colleagues immediately brought some rice paper that had been moistened with water.

Chen Han and the others took the rice paper and immediately covered the inside of the coffin without even looking at the situation inside the coffin.

Because of the difference in humidity inside and outside, in order to prevent the funerary utensils in the coffin from dehydration and cracking, it is necessary to cover the cultural relics in the coffin with this kind of moist rice paper soaked in water immediately after opening the coffin.

After that, after the humidity in the laboratory and the cultural relics in the coffin reached a balance, the rice paper would be removed, and the cleaning of the inner coffin would officially begin.

However, during the brief laying of the rice paper, everyone glanced at the coffin, and then shook their heads in disappointment.

If you don't rot the ancient corpse or something, it's useless.

The condition of the inner coffin is basically the same as that of the outer coffin. It is full of black-gray putrefaction, and after more than 2000 years, the sediment has been very solid.

The inner coffin now looks like a dried asphalt lake, or a half-dried cement pool.

There is no longer any water in the coffin. In this environment, it is impossible to have an ancient corpse that does not decay.

Even, there may even be a question mark on whether there are any remains of the corpse!
"There are gold cakes?!"

Zhuang Yunpeng suddenly exclaimed, but it did not trigger a strong reaction from everyone.

Gold cake, see also gold cake.

This discovery can only be said to be a matter of reason.

There are gold cakes in the outer coffin chamber.

There are also gold cakes in the outer coffin.

Now there are gold cakes in the inner coffin, which is also a normal thing.

It can only be said that the tomb owner really loves gold.

Perhaps the previous guess can be retracted.

The two boxes of gold cakes and one box of horseshoe gold that were found under the bed in the outer coffin.

And the one or two hundred gold cakes and horseshoe gold in the outer coffin probably have nothing to do with Haihunhou's removal of the country.
These golds may have been ordered by Liu He before his death to be buried with him.

After all, this is a nobleman who even buried more than 200 million copper coins, for fear that he would have no money to spend after his death.

With so much copper coins, he must have done his best to bring all the gold he could get to the ground, which seemed not surprising.

It can only be said that Liu He is an outlier among the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty. He didn't care about whether his descendants had money to spend, and brought all the gold and silver treasures of the Haihunhou and even the Changyi Kings to the ground.
Everyone was unmoved by the discovery of the gold cake.

Now, including Chen Han, the 14 archaeologists present have only one thought in mind, that is whether there will be something in the tomb to prove the identity of the owner of the tomb.

All the archaeologists are now full of expectations, but at the same time a little nervous, for fear that there will be no cultural relics that prove the identity of the owner of the tomb that everyone wants.
This kind of anxiety, contradiction, and fear can be said to be a very entangled psychology, which can almost catch up with the feeling of time-sharing in the college entrance examination.

In this way, with such a strange mood, everyone waited for about ten minutes before finally uncovering the rice paper.

When Chen Han stretched out his hand to uncover the rice paper, Chen Han even trembled uncontrollably.

After everyone tremblingly uncovered all the rice paper, the scene of the inner coffin finally caught everyone's eyes.

"My God, this is simply a jade warehouse!"

(End of this chapter)