Master Archaeologist

Chapter 99 What a Professional Tomb Robber! (Please subscribe!!!)
After chatting with Professor Li, after clarifying the situation, Chen Han also devoted himself to cleaning up the sand pile.

This is a delicate job.

It even needs to be so fine that all the sand is sieved through a sieve, making sure not to let go of any object larger than 0.5 cm, so as not to miss a fragment of a cultural relic.

After all, this pile of sand was shoveled out by an excavator, and many cultural relics buried in the ground that had become very fragile were scattered into a pile of debris under the violent destruction of the excavator.

Just how to assemble these fragments into a complete cultural relic, it is estimated that the cultural relics protection department will be bald for several years.

This is not playing Lianliankan, where similar pieces can be put together.

A number of different pottery and jade objects were broken together. The larger pieces were better, and the outlines could be seen to some extent, but the small pieces almost all looked the same.

It is much more difficult to put together than those huge jigsaw puzzles with tens of thousands of pieces.

When he was a student at Peking University, when he visited the Forbidden City Restoration Institute, he was amazed when he saw the restorers of the Forbidden City's cultural relics playing with a pile of fragments.

Anyway, Chen Han thought that he didn't have the strength to put the pieces back together into a complete cultural relic.

So when cleaning up the sand pile, when he found the debris, Chen Han put it in a sealed plastic bag without looking at it, without any thought of trying to repair it.

People have self-knowledge.

With the effort to try to restore it, it is better to clean up the sand pile for a while, extract all the cultural relics inside earlier, and let the cultural relic restorers start repairing earlier.

For half a month, Chen Han followed other colleagues to clean up the big mound.

The length is about 7.1 meters, the width is about 5.9 meters, and the height is at least two to three meters. The area of ​​the tomb can be filled with a lot of earth!
With so much filling soil, all of them need to be carefully screened, and the workload is very heavy!
While Chen Han was busy cleaning up the sand pile.

Another group of people from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences also started excavating the M2 tomb.

NO.16 of the first month.

After the Lantern Festival, everyone got together and had a meal of glutinous rice balls, and the construction of the M2 tomb officially started.

According to the survey and mapping in the early stage, the detection square was laid.

Under the leadership of Kong Jianwen, five senior researchers, together with five assistant researchers including Zhuang Yunpeng and Lin Ya, dug up tomb M2.

The condition of tomb M2 is better than that of tomb M1, at least in appearance.

Because the construction unit stopped digging after digging the tomb passage, and did not dig through the tomb.

As for why the excavation was stopped, on the one hand, it was because the tomb passage was recognized, and on the other hand, it was also because the tomb passage of Tomb M2 was somewhat special.

The tomb passage of Tomb M2 is on the west side of the pit, and is slope-shaped.

Part of the tomb passage was excavated and broken during mechanical construction, and only the upper section remained, but its shape can still be discerned.

And in the tomb passage, it is filled with oval-shaped accumulated stones, and these stones severely block the tomb passage.

Not just in the cemetery.

With the deepening of the excavation progress, the situation of the M2 tomb gradually appeared in front of the archaeologists.

The pit of this tomb is 5.2 meters deep, and the walls of the tomb are steep, showing clear traces of excavation.

In the tomb pit, the people who built the tomb used five-flower soil and stones to tamp the burial in layers.

From the mouth of the tomb to the bottom of the tomb, there are 12 layers of filling and stone accumulation!
Each layer is 50-60 cm thick, and gravel is layered in the filling, and the distribution of gravel is quite dense.

To put it simply, each layer of filling is covered with a layer of big stones, which can not only use the weight of the big stones to tamp the filling, but also prevent tomb robbers.

After all, with so many stones pressed down, it is difficult for tomb robbers to penetrate the soil layer.

This is also one of the earliest means of preventing tomb theft.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, building such tombs required a lot of manpower and material resources.

Generally, only the great nobles have the ability to build this kind of stone tomb.

The effect is also really good.

At least when Kong Jianwen and the others were excavating, it was a headache, and they needed to clean up the filling soil and accumulated stones layer by layer.

The time spent is several times that of ordinary shaft tombs!
But Kong Jianwen was happy with it.

It is a good thing to have anti-theft measures, which can at least reduce the risk of being stolen!
Tomb M1 has been stolen, and tomb M2 must have been visited by countless tomb robbers in the past 2000 years.

Now I can only pray that the anti-theft effect of the stone tomb has played a role, blocking the tomb robbers from robbing!
Unfortunately, this is a luxury after all.

When Kong Jianwen led the team to clear the ninth layer of filling with difficulty.

Zhuang Yunpeng, who was struggling to move the sand and gravel, was a little south of the middle of the filling, and found a deep pit in the corner.

"Damn it, steal a hole!"

His exclaimed voice immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Kong Jianwen took three steps in parallel and made two steps, one foot deep and the other shallow, quickly crossed the uneven sand and stones, and rushed to Zhuang Yunpeng's side.

I saw a robbery hole with a diameter of about 2 meters suddenly appeared in the corner of this layer of filling.

The location of this robbery hole is very tricky.

Just at the intersection of the north and south corners of the filling of the tomb, it avoids the filling layer, but it is close to the position of the tomb.

Drilling the robbery hole vertically from here is equivalent to bypassing the filling layer. As long as you make a slight turn when you hit the bottom, you can enter the tomb.

Kong Jianwen looked at the robbery hole with his brows tightly furrowed, and heaved a long sigh after a long time.

"This tomb robber is too professional."

"It can only be said that the wisdom of the ancients has never been inferior to that of modern people."

This trace of the robbery hole is obviously not modern, at least it is estimated to be hundreds or even thousands of years old.

In the absence of scientific and technological exploration equipment, all rely on eyes to see and nose to smell.

Those ancient tomb thieves were able to accurately distinguish the size of the tomb, and after filling the soil layer next to the tomb, they dug a robbery hole and went down.

Even Kong Jianwen can't help but feel inferior to this professional technique.

If it were him, without any equipment assistance, it would be impossible to determine the scope of the tomb and accurately find the location to avoid the 12 layers of filling soil and gravel.
It can only be said that it is worthy of being a craftsmanship that has been passed down for thousands of years, and it is still very unique.

The discovery of this robbery cave has added a dark cloud to the hearts of all those responsible for the excavation of the M2 tomb.

But if there is a robbery hole, we still have to continue digging. Even if the tomb has been robbed, everyone has to sift the inside and outside of the tomb several times.

There are "unwritten rules" for the so-called tomb robbers in the novels of tomb robbers.

Why not touch the body of the tomb owner and the funerary objects on his body.

Not all the burial objects in the tomb should be stolen, but some should be left for the owner of the tomb.

It's all bullshit.

The most common thing that ancient tomb robbers did was to steal the remains of the tomb owner.

Because the owner of the tomb wears precious objects such as gold, silver, and jade, for the sake of convenience, ancient tomb robbers usually pack up the corpse and take it away.

However, the ancient tomb robbers really would not steal the contents of the tomb.

It's not because the ancients were moral and wanted to save some face for the owner of the tomb.

You have robbed graves, do you still expect to accumulate virtue?

Mainly because there are too many burial objects in the tomb
It is basically impossible for a small group to get it all at once.

Why are the large bronzes in many stolen Spring and Autumn and Warring States tombs still left.

It's not that the tomb robbers don't want it, it's just that it's too big and heavy to take with them.

If they can be taken away, you can see if they will be kept by the owner of the tomb.

In addition, ancient tomb robbers only recognized copper, gold and jade.

I don't bother to ask for the rest of the funeral objects.

This led to the illusion that when the tomb robbers rob the tomb, they will leave a thread for the owner of the tomb.

However, these things that are not cared about by tomb robbers are also precious cultural relics for archaeologists.

So even though the robbery cave has been discovered, Kong Jianwen and the others still have expectations.

Looking forward to the M2 tomb, there are still some important cultural relics left, which have not been taken away by the tomb robbers!

　Brothers, I am arrogant, I am too old, I can't sleep through the night at all, and I fell asleep in the middle of the night.

　　But today's fifth update will definitely be done, two chapters will be released first, and three chapters will be released in the afternoon!
　　It's done!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)