Master Archaeologist

Broken pieces of jade, rectangular metal medallions, jade pipes broken in two, and small bronze spears.

The items in the bronze box seem inconspicuous, but what is certain is that since they can be placed in the head box solemnly, these small items are absolutely extraordinary!
Otherwise, it would be impossible to be put into a bronze box, buried in front of his head, and taken to another world.

But to Chen Han's disappointment, there was no gold seal in the bronze box.

Liu He's Seal of the Marquis of Haihun and the Seal of the King of Changyi have not yet been found.

Changyi Wangyin is okay.

Considering that Haihunhou's Changyi king had been deposed long ago, and the Changyi king's seal might have been taken back a long time ago, he should have no reservations.

But Haihun Houyin, he should definitely be buried with Liu He.

After all, when he died, he was buried as Marquis of Haihun!
"Send the contents of this bronze box to the restorer for restoration." Kong Jianwen rubbed the root of his nose and said with some disappointment.

He also didn't recognize what these jade objects solemnly packed in bronze boxes were.

It took a full three or four days to extract the bronze box, but what I saw was a fragment of jade. It would be a lie if I said I was not disappointed.

But as a professional archaeologist, you will not have any strange emotions because the things you find do not meet your psychological expectations.

After calming down a bit, Kong Jianwen called all the archaeologists to get off work!
The next day, a little after [-]:[-] in the morning, Chen Han and the others arrived at the archaeological laboratory again to continue the archaeological cleaning of the coffin slabs.

In the huge archaeological laboratory, there was silence.

Everyone held tools such as bamboo sticks and tweezers, and leaned over the coffin, carefully cleaning up the mud attached to the coffin.

These silts are also cultural relics and must be properly cleaned and preserved.

After all, no one knows what kind of exquisite silk fabric these silts are when they are intact.

After a while, a lacquer box caught everyone's attention again.

Like the bronze box extracted earlier, this lacquer box was also deeply embedded in the coffin.

Speaking of lacquer boxes, among the funerary objects in Liu He's tomb, there are a large number of lacquerware.

Among them, the high level of craftsmanship of the exquisite lacquerware is jaw-dropping.

Lacquer ear cups, lacquer plates, lacquer painted shields, and lacquered music cars are all extremely exquisite. The lacquer paintings drawn in black, red, and orange are still bright and beautiful even after more than 2000 years.

Among them, the most special one is a stack of lacquer trays, from top to bottom, from small to large, stacked on top of each other. The largest lacquer tray at the bottom is almost one meter in diameter, and the height of the whole stack of lacquer trays is more than one meter.

Although it was difficult to separate the stacked lacquer plates when they were unearthed, they could only be extracted as a whole, but when they were sent to the archaeological base, they were very easy to separate.

You only need to put the whole stack of paint trays into pure water, and after fully soaking the wet water, it is easy to separate them one by one.

Not to mention the exquisite style of the separated lacquer plate, the lacquer painting in the center of the plate is rarely oxidized because it is stacked together, and it is very well preserved.

Don't underestimate these lacquerware, they seem to be made of wood, so they look very cheap. …

In fact, according to the records of the Han Dynasty, the price of a lacquer cup is equivalent to ten copper cups, and a lacquer screen requires the work of tens of thousands of people to make it.

In fact, in the Han Dynasty, the value of lacquerware was much more expensive than that of copperware!
Many of these lacquered woodware have written records.

Among them, the written records on some lacquer plates are all accurate to the smallest container unit of measurement, yuè.

The units of container measurement in the Han Dynasty were 龠 (yuè), combined (gě), liter, bucket, and dendrobium.

1 龠 = 1200 grains of millet and black millet of moderate size.

It can be seen from this that the production of lacquered woodware is based on "龠" as the unit of charge. It takes a lot of money to make a lacquered woodware that can hold 1 龠.

It is equivalent to making a kettle in modern times, how much it can hold one liter of water, and how much it can hold two liters of water.

And 1 龠, can only put 1200 grains of black millet.

And black millet is a kind of big yellow rice. The size of yellow rice is much smaller than rice grains.

In fact, the volume is only a few tens of grams.

It can be seen how expensive lacquered woodware was in the Western Han Dynasty, and the money was calculated in units of tens of grams.

Almost as good as gold
It is conceivable how much care was taken about the use of lacquer at that time.

In modern times, that is, one or two glasses of baijiu can be bought at a high price.

This is a real luxury.

In the tomb of Haihunhou, nearly [-] pieces of lacquerware were unearthed, which shows how rich Haihunhou was.

However, with so much gold unearthed, Haihunhou no longer needs to use other cultural relics to prove his wealth.

But these exquisite lacquerware are definitely an important treasure for archaeology.

Especially in Nanchang, and even Jiangxi, there are not many Western Han lacquer and wood wares unearthed in the past.

Again, in the Western Han Dynasty, Jiangxi was a remote and barbaric land, and there were indeed no big nobles who could use lacquerware.

Back to the lab.

The lacquer box deeply embedded in the coffin has been extracted through everyone's efforts.

The lacquer box is obviously also very likely to be used to hold the gold seal.

However, this time there was nothing to look forward to.

Because during the extraction process, the lid on the lacquer box had been loosened, exposing a touch of red inside, like a red round bead.

If there is such a thing exposed, it is obviously not the lacquer box containing the gold seal.

But everyone is still looking forward to it.

This red round bead looks like a gem, which is also a good thing.

Kong Jianwen, who was wearing gloves, carefully picked up the loose cover.

Sure enough, an agate bead the size of a pigeon egg, which looked the same as a watermelon-flavored lollipop, appeared in the lacquered box.

"What is this??" Chen Han frowned and exclaimed.

In addition to this agate bead, inside the lacquer box, there are also some wet white and yellowish jelly!

This is really the first time I've seen you!

Obviously, 2000 years ago, this thing was definitely not jelly-like, and it was only after more than 2000 years passed that it became a jelly-like thing like a "slime" like it is now.

"what is this?"

"Health medicine?"

"cosmetic?"

"Longevity ointment?"

Everyone was talking.

The most mentioned one is "longevity ointment".

In the Han Dynasty, one of the favorite things of the princes and nobles was to take the so-called "Longevity Pill". During the archaeology of the Nanyue king's tomb, the five-flavored medicinal material used to make Wushisan was discovered.

This trend did not become popular until the Tang Dynasty.

However, there is only a ball of jelly and an agate bead left in the lacquer box, and it is impossible to guess what it is with the naked eye.

Although there are different opinions and various speculations.

But everyone has one certain fact in their hearts.

That is, since this thing was specially placed in a lacquer box and solemnly buried in the inner coffin, it was definitely a very precious thing in the Han Dynasty.

As for what it is, it doesn't matter if the archaeologists can't see it!

Go to the laboratory test!