The sarcophagus placed in the middle of the tomb chamber has cranes and deers in the stele hall painted on the front. There are two snow-white cranes flying over the glazed tile hall, and there are lush green pine and cypress trees on both sides.
In front of the coffin head is a fragrant green grassland. In the middle of the grassland is the stone path leading to the hall, which looks very clean and elegant. The whole picture decorates the entire coffin head like a fairyland room, a quiet villa.
On both sides of the coffin, there are two phoenixes hovering in the sky for nine days, chasing and teasing the orbs. From this, it can be seen that the owner of the coffin should be a woman.
"Xiaozhuang, in our ancient times, coffins were also called old houses. This coffin is just like that. It has flowers, trees, cranes and pines, just like a royal garden..."
Professor Meng saw Zhuang Rui holding a camera and constantly taking pictures of the relief patterns on the sarcophagus, and explained to him that Chinese culture is profound and profound, and every pattern is not aimless and has its own hidden meaning.
"Teacher, are there many sarcophagi unearthed from the tombs?" Zhuang Rui asked.
"Not many, that is, there are sarcophagi found in tombs of the Eastern Han Dynasty..."
After Professor Meng walked around the sarcophagus a few times, he looked at Dr. Ren and said, "Xiao Ren, this sarcophagus can be pushed open directly. Go up and try it. When you push it halfway, tie it with a rope and be careful to drop it on the ground...
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Since the sarcophagus itself is very heavy, it should be able to be pushed open without the bayonet pegs of the wooden coffin.
Before Dr. Ren opened the coffin, Zhuang Rui took a knife and inserted it into the connection between the coffin lid and the coffin itself. However, he found that even though it was as thin as a knife blade, it still could not be inserted.
"Xiao Zhuang, don't try. Even if you take a piece of paper, you may not be able to stuff it in..."
Professor Meng couldn't help but laugh when he saw Zhuang Rui's actions. Many of the craftsmanship of the ancients can be said to be ingenious, not to mention that they were used by the royal family. How dare those craftsmen not craft them carefully?
"Teacher, this...can't be pushed!"
Dr. Ren put on gloves and stood in front of the coffin head, pushing it back hard, but even though Dr. Ren's face turned red from holding it in, the coffin lid still didn't move at all.
Professor Meng shook his head and said: "My strength is weak, Xiao Liu, please help me..."
But even if Xiao Liu was added, before the coffin lid could be pushed open, Zhuang Rui saw this situation and said, "Teacher, let me try..."
Handing the camera to Dr. Ren, Zhuang Rui put on a pair of gloves, put his hands on the front door of the coffin, and exerted force with both hands. Suddenly, the sound of stone friction was heard, and the seamless coffin lid that matched the coffin itself slowly slowly
Move backward slowly.
"It's really not light..."
Zhuang Rui weighed it and found that the coffin lid weighed hundreds of kilograms. He didn't know how the ancients moved it up the mountain and placed it in the tomb chamber.
"Depend on!"
When a gap was exposed in the coffin beneath him, a stench that Zhuang Rui couldn't describe in words wafted out of the hall. Zhuang Rui quickly let go of his hands and stepped back.
"Ugh... ugh..."
Holding on to the wall covered with reliefs, Zhuang Rui bent down and retched several times. The smell was so unpleasant that he almost fainted in an instant.
Dr. Ren took a bottle of Fengyoujing, wiped a little on Zhuang Rui's nose and temples, and said apologetically: "Zhuang Rui, put some Fengyoujing on it, I forgot to tell you, the one who opened the coffin
Yes, try to hold your breath..."
"This, this smells too bad. It's been a thousand or two thousand years, why hasn't the smell evaporated?"
Zhuang Rui finally regained his breath after five or six minutes. Looking at the cracked sarcophagus, he really didn't have the courage to step forward anymore.
Professor Meng saw Zhuang Rui's appearance and said with a smile: "This sarcophagus is well sealed. In addition, this tomb has not been opened for a thousand or two thousand years, so the smell is condensed in the museum. Xiaozhuang, it's okay. Although the smell is unpleasant
It smells good, but it’s not poisonous…”
Professor Meng has presided over many coffin-opening scientific expeditions, and participated in the excavation of the Ming Tombs as a staff member in the last century. He has smelled all kinds of unpleasant smells. At this time, he stood
Not far from the coffin, I seemed to have never heard the smell wafting out.
Zhuang Rui's nose came back with a hint of that smell, which even Fengyoujing couldn't hide, and said quickly: "I'd better pull down the coffin lid from behind..."
"Be careful, little Ren Xiaoliu, prepare the rope and pole, and put them down gently later..."
Professor Meng directed everyone to stand at the bottom of the coffin. Stone coffins are extremely rare in ancient tombs, and the reliefs on them are so exquisite that they are a precious work of art in themselves.
When Zhuang Rui pulled the coffin lid out about one meter, Dr. Ren and others fixed it with ropes. Four people stood on both sides and lifted it up. Suddenly, the stench became stronger and filled the entire tomb chamber.
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Zhuang Rui had already put on a mask and sprinkled a lot of essential oil on the mask. Even so, he still felt a little uncomfortable and said, "Teacher, do you want to use a blower to circulate the air in the tomb first?"
The soft leather pipe of the blower they brought in was hundreds of meters long, enough to be pulled into the tomb.
"No, the smell of putrefaction means that the objects in the museum are not very rotten. If fresh air comes in, I'm afraid nothing will be left..."
Professor Meng shook his head. At this moment, he also put on a mask and leather gloves on his hands because he was afraid of the presence of corrosive substances in the museum.
"Bamboo tapestry?!"
Under the illumination of the light, Professor Meng looked into the sarcophagus and let out an exclamation, but it came out through the mask, which seemed a bit dull.
Although Zhuang Rui didn't like the smell inside the coffin, he was really curious about what could make the old professor lose his composure? He quickly stepped to the sarcophagus and looked inside.
"Why is there no body?"
Zhuang Rui endured the unpleasant stench, looked up, and found that there were only some textile-like things in the museum, but the imaginary corpse could not be seen.
"The body is at the bottom, we need to clean up the things above first..."
Dr. Ren also wore gloves and came to the sarcophagus. The cleaning of the cultural relics in the sarcophagus was mainly carried out by him and Professor Meng.
Several other people were holding some plastic bags and paper bags, each bag had a label, which records the order in which the cultural relics were unearthed. In some research documents, the number of cultural relics unearthed from a certain tomb is due to this.
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"The characters above are the characters for longevity, right?"
Zhuang Rui saw a large word "longevity" on the brocade inside the coffin, and there were many decorative patterns next to it. Although it had been covered in dust for thousands of years, it still looked like new.
"This is a Wanshou quilt made of brocade from the Han Dynasty. It has been unearthed before, but those tombs have been robbed. This is the first time I have seen such a complete brocade. It is a priceless treasure..."
Professor Meng looked at these brocades and continued: "This is called two-color Jinku brocade. The patterns on it are all woven with gold and silver threads. Generally, gold threads are the main one, and a small number of patterns are decorated with silver threads.
, in ancient times only the royal family could use it..."
While Professor Meng was talking to Zhuang Rui, he suddenly saw that Ren Chunqiang had stretched out his hand and lifted a corner of the brocade. He couldn't help but shouted: "Slow down, don't move..."
It's just that Professor Meng shouted a little too late. Dr. Ren's hand had already grasped the brocade. Zhuang Rui could see clearly that the brightly colored brocade, as if it had just been made, was already reduced to ashes in the palm of Dr. Ren's hand.
"Oh, I don't blame you. These textiles are difficult to preserve. Xiaozhuang, take pictures of these brocades for future reference..."
Professor Meng sighed. He originally wanted to observe for a while, but Dr. Ren had already started, and the color of the brocade that had been touched was slowly becoming darker. Presumably, once the outside air circulated in, these brocades would no longer be able to
exists again.
When Zhuang Rui heard this, he quickly picked up the camera and took pictures of every pattern of the brocade. He now also knew that the owner's body was under the brocade quilt.
As the air in the tomb gradually became clearer, the color of the tapestry inside the sarcophagus became darker and darker, completely different from the brilliance it had just now.
"Okay, let's start, be careful, and lift it up layer by layer..."
The failure to preserve the brocade only made Professor Meng feel uncomfortable for a while, and the excitement of discovering a complete tomb from the Han Dynasty flooded into his heart again.
You should know that among the Han tombs unearthed in modern times, basically nine out of ten tombs are empty. Even in the tombs that are not empty, there are not many items left in them. Almost all of them have been removed by tomb robbers of all ages.
Although only a complete tomb has been discovered so far, there is enough reason to believe that the possibility of this tomb being stolen is very small, and there may be some discoveries that shock the archaeological world.
"Cultural relics unearthed on No. 1, a pair of gold bracelets..."
"The unearthed item No. 3 is a phoenix hairpin..."
"This...this is a golden phoenix crown. Be careful and place it carefully..."
I don’t know how many layers this Wanshou Quilt has in total. Anyway, as the layers are opened, some burial objects will appear on almost every layer, most of which are used by women. When the coffin head part is cleared out first,
, the most important cultural relic today finally appeared.
Zhuang Rui saw in the camera that it was a phoenix crown. The entire phoenix crown was made of gold and silver wire, hollowed out and full of three-dimensional effect, and it was inlaid with dozens of beaded gemstones.
The two ends of the phoenix crown are raised high, in the shape of two singing phoenixes. The phoenixes hold jewelry strings in their mouths. The jewels and gold and silver complement each other, making it look extremely magnificent.
After Professor Meng took out the phoenix crown from one side of the skull, the entire tomb became dazzling.
After putting away the phoenix crown, Professor Meng and Dr. Ren gradually cleaned up the brocade. It had been more than two hours, but in this coffin alone, they actually took out 231 cultural relics.
The skeleton of a woman with black hair still around her head finally appeared in front of everyone.
