Master Archaeologist

Chapter 98 It's been stolen! (Ask for the first order!!)
Compared with tomb No. M2, where the tomb passage was dug and broken, but the tomb chamber has not been destroyed.

The situation in tomb No. M1 is really miserable.

During the on-site construction, the excavator workers did not realize that they had dug the tomb at all. The entire tomb was dug out and piled in the sand.

After receiving the task from the mentor, Chen Han put on his gloves and walked to the sand mound.

Seven or eight colleagues from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences have carefully screened the scattered cultural relics collected in the sand pile.

Chen Han took a rough look and found that there were quite a few utensils, including bronze, jade, and stone utensils.

Some copper pots, bronze daggers, copper arrowheads and bronze fragments have been collected and are being numbered and registered.

"This sand mound is the filling of Tomb M1. The cultural relics collected in this sand mound should be included in the unearthed relics of Tomb M1!"

Professor Li frowned, directing the archaeologists to carefully sift through the pile of sand in front of them.

Many cultural relics in tomb No. M1 are hidden in this pile of sand, so we should not take it lightly.

However, Chen Han looked at Professor Li's expression, why was he so serious, and even a little sad?

"Xiao Chen, are you here?"

Seeing Chen Han, Professor Li's frown eased a little, but soon he regained that worried expression.

"The situation in tomb No. M1 is very pessimistic."

Professor Li sighed, and pulled Chen Han, who hadn't started working, to the side of the sand pile, where some cultural relics from the filled soil sorted out by the previous construction unit were placed.

"Lao Kong and I have already discussed the situation with the person in charge of the construction unit."

"During the process of leveling the land, the construction unit excavated most of the upper part of the tomb of M1 tomb with mechanical work."

"It was also because a certain number of bronze vessels and debris appeared in the excavated fill, which attracted the attention of the person in charge of the construction unit, and the stoppage applied for the intervention of relevant departments."

"However, when we went to the site for investigation, it was confirmed that the bottom of the tomb of M1 was only 20 centimeters and had not been dug out yet."

Chen Han scratched his head, and asked a little puzzled: "Professor, where is the coffin? No matter how slow the construction unit responds, when the coffin is dug, it will always be realized that this is a tomb, right? How did you realize it when you dug to the bottom?"

Generally, the height of the coffin in a tomb pit must be about one meter high. Even if the excavator of the construction unit has a longer reflection arc, when the excavation is more than one meter away from the bottom of the pit, you should see the coffin. .

Unless there is no coffin in this tomb, it will be dug to the bottom, and it will not react until the bronzes are dug out.

Sure enough, Professor Li sighed: "The coffin and skeleton have all decayed, so the construction unit didn't find out that it was a tomb when they excavated it."

If the inner and outer coffins were gone, there would be nothing like a tomb in the tomb except for the funerary objects.

If the master of the excavator didn't pay attention to the sand dug out by each shovel, he would really not notice that it was a tomb.

It can be considered excusable.

However, the coffins are all decayed, which is not good news.

Generally speaking, if the tomb has not been dug up after the owner of the tomb is buried, even if it is a tomb from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the inner and outer coffins will not be completely decayed.

There are still quite a few Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs excavated by the Chinese archaeological circles, and it is true that the coffins were completely decayed.

But those tombs with decayed coffins are usually accompanied by another key point.

That is tombs that are all stolen.

With some searching eyes in Chen Han's eyes, he lowered his head and scanned back and forth among the cultural relics that had been cleaned up.

Sure enough, among the bronzes and pottery that had been extracted, there was an object that was obviously not of the same age as these funerary objects.

A piece of iron!
Iron!

In a tomb from the Western Zhou Dynasty, a piece of iron appeared, which is obviously very wrong!

"This is a tomb that was stolen and dug?" Chen Han pointed to the iron plate and said with some disappointment.

Professor Li nodded: "Yes, this piece of iron was found in the filling of the tomb of M1 Tomb. It should have been left by the robbers after they dug into the tomb."

This is why Professor Li has been frowning and worried.

Judging from the shape and structure of this piece of iron, it should be an iron artifact from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty.

The word 臿 (chā) has the same pronunciation as 把, which is a kind of agricultural tool for shoveling soil.

Leisi is its predecessor, and spade is its successor.

This thing flourished in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was basically widely used in agricultural work in the Han Dynasty.

Of course, 釿 is also widely loved by tomb robbers. In the past, it was often found in the robbery holes of tombs.

Not to mention ancient tomb robbers, in modern times, many modern tomb robbers have to use iron catalpa to dig soil when they rob tombs, for a reason.

Such an iron tomb was left in the filling of the tomb, which shows that tomb No. M1 was stolen within less than 300 years after the burial.

It may have been during the Warring States period at the earliest, and around the Western Han Dynasty at the latest, and the burial objects in the tomb had been stolen.

It is estimated that there will not be much left for modern archaeologists.

"After cleaning, it can be roughly determined that the bottom of the tomb is about 7.1 meters long and 5.9 meters wide according to the different soil layers."

Professor Li said regretfully: "From the size of the remaining tomb bottom, it can be inferred that the scale of this tomb is not small."

"There is a high probability that it is the tomb of a prince from the Spring and Autumn Period!"

"Unfortunately, it has been stolen."

"I hope that the M2 tomb of the same scale has not been stolen."

Professor Li was a little apprehensive.

However, Chen Han is not optimistic about the situation of tomb M2 at all.

Standing next to the excavation site, he can see that the distance between M1 and M2 tombs is not far, and they can even be said to be next to each other.

The relationship between the two tomb owners must have been unusual, maybe they were husband and wife, or father and son, who were buried so close together.

However, tomb No. M1 has been stolen, and the possibility that tomb No. M2, which is connected together, has not been stolen is very low.

In fact, the tombs of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were the most stolen among all the tombs in China.

Because in the tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, most of the bronze wares were buried.

As for copper, it has always been China's precious metal currency.

It is hard currency in any era, so from the Warring States Period to the Tang and Song Dynasties, the tombs of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty are widely loved by tomb robbers.

Stealing tombs in this era has a lot of valuable things, whether it is in ancient times or modern times, it is safe to get rich!

A large part of the tombs in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods have been patronized by several generations of tomb robbers. They may have been stolen once in the Western Han Dynasty, once again in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and again in the Southern and Northern Dynasties...

Even so, some Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs that have been stolen more than a dozen times in different periods have been unearthed with dozens of funerary objects after rescue excavations in modern times.
It's no wonder that the tombs of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods will always be missed by thieves. There are so many valuable funeral objects!

Unlike the tombs after the Han Dynasty, thin burials began to be advocated, and there were not so many burial objects, especially when there was less hard currency, so the theft would not be so profitable, and the situation of being stolen was naturally smaller.

Just like the sentence in "Six Secret Teachings Leading Proverbs".

The world is hilarious, all come for profit.

Everyone in the world is benefiting.

Tomb robbers also come for profit.

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