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Chapter 114: Revealing the Xiaohe Cemetery

Talking about the tough Seventh Brother, he held the knife tightly with one hand and stroked the face of the wooden carver with the other hand! He murmured to himself: "Damn, this carver!...

Next, the tough Seventh Brother continued to wave the shovel and dig down!

However, because the sand was relatively loose and kept collapsing, the quicksand on top was faster than he could dig, so Brother Qi looked at the wide-eyed angel Yaomei'er, patted his big hands covered with sand, and had no choice but to regret it.

Give up.

The two monsters climbed up into the sandpit. Feeling tired and thirsty, they took out their water bags and drank a few sips of the sweet water. The five monsters nearby also dug some graves, but none of them found any decent treasures.

Next, they stuck their buttocks out and dug headfirst for a whole day. They dug a total of thirty-nine tombs, all of which were small, because there were no extremely large tombs here, and each person had one pit.

Under each tomb, there is another person buried. The seventh brother dug the deepest tomb to the fourth level and could not continue digging because the quicksand filled the pit too much. How many levels are there underneath? It is unknown.

Since there was no gold, silver, jewelry, or anything that Brother Qi was interested in, no one was interested in digging anymore, but Brother Qi was not discouraged.

The seven tomb robbers all stopped and sat together. They took out their own water bags to drink water. They took out dry food from the sweaty horse's backpack, sat around and started to eat.

At this time, the seven sweat-blooded horses also rolled a few times under the cemetery and got some food. The golden retriever and the little howler monkey ate the hard dough pastry, looking like they were enjoying themselves.

Snake King Erdan's rattlesnake is always coiled around his neck, constantly spitting out long red snake tails like a monster. It seems that he is never hungry, and he doesn't know what Snake King Erdan secretly feeds it.

The dark myna is always fucking unexpected. From yesterday to today, this guy has been sitting on a tall wooden pile like a supervisor, watching the seven tomb robbers digging the grave every second without saying a word.

At this time! When the black guy saw that everyone was ready to eat, he quickly opened his big mouth, stared at his small eyes, and said with all his strength: "dinner is ready!" He flapped his wings randomly and flew from the helmet-shaped wooden stake at the top.

After landing on the ground, he jumped over a few times and flew onto Angel Yaomeier's shoulder.

Angel Yaomei'er handed it a piece of hard dough pastry, and the bird stretched out its mouth to grab it. Due to the excessive force, the pastry was too heavy, and the bird even fell down with the dough, and the hard dough glutinous rice gurgled on the sand.

, stained with fine sand.

The black guy didn't care about this, he started to exert all his strength and chisel hard with his mouth. After a while, the whole hard dough pastry disappeared.

The black guy stared at his two strange little eyes, stretched his neck, and the crop he ate was crooked. Then he flew up to Angel Yaomei'er's left shoulder and shouted into her delicate ears: "I'm full.

“Old lady, I want some soup”!

Brother Qi stretched out his hand and slapped it down, scolding: "Damn it, whose father are you?"

After saying that, he poured some water into his nested left hand with a water bag. The starling then lowered his head and stretched his neck, drinking up the water in Brother Qi's hand.

Then, he flapped his wings and flew to the phallic-like wooden stake. Standing on the helmet-like thing, he watched everyone eat with his small eyes like a peephole.

The seven tomb robbers gathered together while eating. They excavated a total of nine children's tombs, and the rest were all adult mummies.

Among them are fifteen mummies with well-preserved clothing, three wooden figures, a rare combination of mummy and wooden corpse, and thirteen malachite stones.

This result made everyone very disappointed, and they missed the good old days of tomb robbers in the mainland to get riches and treasures. At this time, the Six Monsters had already decided to quit.

They ate all kinds of dry food and complained about the hot weather, harsh climate, and all kinds of unhappiness.

Only Seventh Brother ate hard noodle pastry and drank water without saying a word.

In fact, Xiaohe Cemetery later became the tomb with the most mummies unearthed in the world! So many mummies were unearthed from one tomb, which is unique in the world. It is still unclear how many mummies are inside.

Seventh Brother is always different, he always has his own characteristics. Not to mention the words "retreat", no one dares to retreat. Seventh Brother always has Seventh Brother's principles.

The big golden retriever ate and drank enough, licked the tip of his black nose to express his satisfaction, then lay down next to Brother Qi, lolling out his tongue in a hot voice, and dozed off with half-closed eyes.

Brother Qi, however, drank two sips of Donkey Laojiu very energetically. He believed: "The unearthed objects in Xiaohe Cemetery represent two different cultures. One is the burial of Xiaohe natives, and the other is the mummies in complicated clothes, which belonged to the upper class of the time.

person.

At the same time, Lop Nur is very dry. As a large lake in ancient times, by the late Qing Dynasty, many places no longer had puddles!

Moreover, the cemetery is built on a high platform and is not flooded. The tomb is not too deep. The corpse is covered with sand, reeds and red willow branches, which are relatively loose and easy to breathe and evaporate, creating conditions for the formation of mummies.

The characteristics of their clothing should be that they were buried in winter. The cold season restricted bacterial activity. The dry wind caused the corpses to quickly dehydrate and dry before they could decompose, slowing down oxidation. This is an important reason why the ancient corpses were well preserved.

Moreover, Qi Brother could see that the sand dunes in Xiaohe Cemetery were not formed naturally, but were built up of layers of sand. Based on their appearance, Qi Brother identified them as "Indo-European people."

In the summer of 1934, Swedish archaeologist Bergman, while inspecting the Lop Nur area in Xinjiang, arrived at this ancient tomb group with "a thousand coffins" under the guidance of Oldeke.

Xiaohe is still unknown after the low-key excavation of the Seven Tomb Robbers.

Later, it became famous all over the world because of Bergman! This strange creek cemetery is considered by the world's archaeological community to be the most difficult to solve eternal mystery in the history of Central Asia and archaeology - the sand-buried civilization.

And Rob Hunter Oldeke also believes that the mummies here are "the best preserved mummies in the world."

Since then, Xiaohe Cemetery has mysteriously disappeared in the sea of ​​sand. Chinese scholars have made unremitting efforts to find this ancient relic for more than half a century.

It was not until December 11, 2000, that the mysterious Xiaohe Cemetery appeared again in front of the famous Xinjiang archaeologist and researcher Wang Binghua. The stunning reappearance of the Xiaohe Cemetery was hailed as the "latest discovery of the new century" by Chinese archaeologists.

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The grand scale, the unique burial system, the large number of mummies, and the rich information about Lop Nur's early civilization... Xiaohe Cemetery is unique in China, and there is no similar tomb in the world.

The river bed is 30 meters wide at its widest point and is eroded to a depth of one and a half meters. There are reeds taller than a human being on the river bank. In ancient times, canoes could pass through it when the water level was high.

Today, no one can tell the exact location of the disappearing point of the creek, which may be near the end of the Tarim River near Kalakushun Lake, and it is inferred that the total length of the creek is about 120 kilometers.

When the foul-mouthed Bugs was sitting on the helmet-shaped wooden stake with his head tilted and his eyes closed, taking a nap, the Seventh Brother threw the last piece of hard dough into his mouth and spoke with

The rich baritone voice said: "Young men, get to work."

This time, the six monsters all started to work hard and be lazy! They shamelessly wanted to dig a grave with Brother Seven. After a wave of shovels, a coffin was opened and a mummy was carried out. The six monsters were all dumbfounded.
Chapter completed!
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