Master Archaeologist

Chapter 82 Why is it not corrupt?
04:30am.

The entire Jingzhou fell into a deep sleep, the streets were quiet, and there was only a crescent moon hanging in the sky, illuminating the dark night.

But inside the Jingzhou Institute of Biology, it was a busy scene.

After two hours of systematic dissection, Mr. Sui, whose head, chest and abdomen had been opened, was finally dissected by the medical team.

All his internal organs were properly preserved in a transparent glass bottle filled with protective fluid.

The location of the incision on the corpse was also re-sutured.

Apart from being hollowed out, from the outside, Mr. Sui is still very complete.

An autopsy is not dismemberment, but an in-depth examination of a corpse.

After completing the dissection, everyone surrounded the dissection table again and bowed to Mr. Sui very solemnly.

"Alright, next we will inject Mr. Sui with preservatives and prepare a professional antiseptic crystal coffin."

"Mr. Sui's body, we will seriously and in-depth research, hoping to find some physical differences between modern people and ancient people."

Professor Wu, who performed the autopsy, put down the suture needles in satisfaction, and let out a long sigh of relief.

Today's autopsy is definitely the most meaningful and special one among the hundreds of medical autopsies he has experienced in his life.

He was very satisfied, and even felt lucky and excited that he was able to participate in such an important autopsy.

However, Professor Lu, who was next to him, was a little swollen after the short period of excitement, and even had such a bold idea in his heart.

Although Mr. Sui is rare and valuable, there is basically no difference between the human body structure of the ancient corpse 2100 years ago and the modern human body.

More that is, we can only use the remains of Mr. Sui to explore the physical condition of the ancients 2000 years ago.

If only the incorruptible ancient corpses discovered today were not 2000 years ago, but 2 years ago!

Homo sapiens in the late Huaxia period 2 years ago has yet to find complete bone fossils.

If there can be an incorruptible Homo sapiens corpse, the research prospects will be extremely broad, and it can even change the current anthropology.

It's a pity that this is a bit unrealistic.

Unless you dig tens of meters into the ice of the North and South Poles, it should be difficult to find a complete, unfossilized Homo sapiens corpse.

"Dong dong dong."

During the autopsy just now, a staff member took the body cavity fluid obtained from Mr. Sui's body to the next door for testing, and connected the intercom inside and outside the Unicom laboratory.

"Several professors, according to preliminary tests, the body cavity fluid does not have any microorganisms and bacteria, and it is very clean!"

This news immediately interrupted everyone talking and laughing in the laboratory.

The autopsy is over, but it doesn't mean the work surrounding Mr. Sui is also over.

On the contrary, in fact, the research on Mr. Sui has just begun.

The first question that needs to be solved urgently is why Mr. Sui will not be corrupt in 2100?
It is obviously against the laws of nature that a person can survive for such a long time after death.

There must be a special reason, and even special anti-corrosion measures were mentioned.

It's just that the people of the Western Han Dynasty 2100 years ago mastered such a superb anti-corrosion technology?

"There are no microorganisms and bacteria growing in the body cavity?" Professor Wu, who performed the autopsy, no longer remembers. This is the first time he has exclaimed today.

On the contrary, Kong Jianwen said without any surprise: "It would be incomprehensible if microorganisms and bacteria were found in the body cavity."

"The absence of bacteria and microbes is a normal situation."

Without the presence of bacteria, the corpse will not be contaminated by bacteria, and naturally it will not rot.

If Mr. Sui's body is full of bacteria, but not decayed at all, this would be a puzzling situation.

You even have to think about metaphysics, whether it is an ancient Qi practitioner who has achieved success in cultivation and has a body that does not rot.

It is scientific only if there are no bacteria and microorganisms in the body!

"The corpses don't rot, there are only a few reasons, closed, anaerobic, stable environment, and anti-corrosion methods."

Kong Jianwen led the team of medical experts to the neglected inner coffin.

In terms of medicine, he is not as good as these people.

But when it comes to archaeology, these people can't keep up with Kong Jianwen.

Kong Jianwen pointed to the inner coffin, motioned everyone to look inside, and then slowly explained: "When this inner coffin was unearthed, it was very well sealed. It was wrapped with six layers of linen cloth, which completely isolated the inside of the coffin."

"And when you were doing the autopsy for Mr. Sui just now, Xiao Chen and I were not idle, and carefully inspected the inner coffin."

"Apart from a few precious cultural relics that you don't even understand, there are two most special places in the coffin."

"The first place is that the coffin is full of red fluid, and the second place is that there are accumulations in the coffin that are nearly 30 centimeters high."

Kong Jianwen talked a lot, but the medical team present didn't understand at all, and became even more confused.

Professor Wu, who was more anxious, simply interrupted: "Director Kong, what is the reason why this ancient corpse does not rot?"

have to.

Kong Jianwen resisted the desire to roll his eyes, and this group of people who study the human body and biology every day should not go around in circles.

He simply said directly: "It is because of these two special features."

"I have carefully identified that most of the deposits at the bottom of the coffin are silk residues, probably the remains of the tomb owner's personal burial clothes after decay."

"The residue alone is so thick. It can be inferred that when Mr. Sui was buried, the coffin should be stuffed with various silk fabrics."

"In other words, there is not much room for oxygen in the coffin."

"And the silk fabrics buried with them also need a lot of oxygen to decompose."

"There is not much oxygen in the coffin, and it is not enough to support so many things decomposing, so even if the male corpse self-dissolves, it will soon stop with the exhaustion of oxygen."

"However, based on this reason alone, the corpse cannot be so easily preserved in 2100." Professor Lu, who majored in human biology, frowned, a little puzzled.

"Even if it's underground, no matter how tightly the coffin is sealed, it's impossible to completely block the entry of oxygen, right?"

Kong Jianwen tapped the corner of his mouth: "At this time, the red liquid in the coffin has played an important role."

He raised his head and looked at Chen Han, who had been frowning and thinking hard. He regarded this place as a class scene, and asked him directly: "Xiao Chen, I will test you."

"What do you think this red fluid in the coffin is?"

Everyone present turned their heads to look at Chen Han upon hearing the sound.

Including the two old professors, there was a hint of inquiry in their eyes.

In the laboratory, Chen Han, who has always been a little transparent, was suddenly watched by everyone, but he was very calm.

If you want to say something that is most related to embalming, and it was available in the Western Han Dynasty before BC.

That obviously must be mercury.

As early as the pre-Qin period, Chinese people already knew that mercury could embalm corpses.

The most famous is the legend that Qin Shihuang built a mercury underground palace for himself, in order to keep his bones from decaying.

In the Western Han Dynasty, there were more than one records in history books that the nobles of the Western Han Dynasty would wipe their bodies with cinnabar after death before burying them.

And, there have been examples to prove it.

In Mawangdui No. 70 Han Tomb unearthed in the 1s, the inner and outer coffins containing the remains of Mrs. Xin Zhui were filled with red coffin liquid just like Mr. Sui's coffin.

As for the red coffin liquid in Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb, after testing, it was concluded that the liquid was rich in mercury.

Mercury, Mercury also.

Chen Han grinned, and replied confidently: "Teacher, the red liquid in this coffin should be cinnabar that melted with water!"

Cinnabar, a natural ore, was used as a traditional Chinese medicine in ancient times.

The most important thing is that cinnabar is red in color and mainly contains mercury sulfide!

The bactericidal effect is superb!

(End of this chapter)