"Isn't this the engraved talisman unearthed from the Sanxingdui site?" Chen Ziyun said in confusion. The Sanxingdui site is one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of mankind in the century. Various signs indicate that the Sanxingdui site is one of the origins of Chinese civilization. It is located in Shu.
Guanghan. Many rare treasures that shocked mankind have been unearthed here, such as huge bronze people and bronze masks, ancient bronze trees, etc.
From the smelting technology of the unearthed cultural relics, it can be determined that the residents of Sanxingdui at that time had mastered a certain degree of metal smelting technology, which is a necessary sign of a civilized world. However, strangely, there are no cultural relics found at the Sanxingdui site.
Texts were found. Only a few scattered artifacts contained a small number of engraved symbols. What makes people feel sad is that the number of these engraved symbols is very small. You can count them with two palms, only seven. Therefore, archaeology
Scientists believe that these engraved symbols have not yet formed a systematic script, so they do not have much research significance. Therefore, it is not surprising that Wang Xiaowu, who is proficient in ancient philology, does not recognize these characters.
But Chen Ziyun was different. As a young archaeologist, Chen Ziyun was not as cautious and conservative as other archaeologists. Regarding the Sanxingdui Civilization, he boldly speculated that the ruins of the Sanxingdui Civilization were the ruins of the Xia Dynasty!
Of course, Chen Ziyun's inference was not based on wild imagination, but on the basis of facts. For this reason, his doctoral thesis was to demonstrate the connection between the Sanxingdui site and the Xia Dynasty. There were hundreds of thousands of pictures and texts.
However, the instructor only turned over a few pages and threw it into the trash can. He also scolded him severely.
But later, for some unknown reason, his paper was discovered by the staff of the 042 Institute, and then the instructor's attitude changed drastically. As a result, he passed, and then he was recruited by the 042 Institute as a key investigator, allowing him to
Specially responsible for the archeology and excavation work of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Based on his familiarity with the Sanxingdui civilization, Chen Ziyun could tell at a glance that the rubbings in Wang Xiaowu's hands were engraved talismans inside the Sanxingdui cultural relics. But what surprised him was that there were not only seven engraved talismans, but thirteen
.And among the thirteen engraved talismans, only three were the same as those he had seen in the Sanxingdui Museum. The rest of the engraved talismans were equally unfamiliar to Chen Ziyun.
"Are you kidding me?" Wang Xiaowu rolled his eyes at Chen Ziyun and said helplessly: "Boss, do you know where these talismans come from?"
Chen Ziyun also felt very strange. Wasn't Wang Xiaowu dealing with the cultural relics unearthed in Tomb No. 09? Why did he have the leisure to study the Sanxingdui engraved talismans? Thinking of this, Chen Ziyun's heart suddenly shuddered, and he looked strange and said: "
Don’t tell me, this is what was unearthed from tomb No. 09!”
Wang Xiaowu nodded seriously and said: "Yes, it was unearthed from tomb No. 09." Wang Xiaowu stood up and said seriously: "So, boss, you must have read it wrong. It is an ancient tomb from the Western Zhou Dynasty.
How come the characters for Sanxingdui appear?”
"Impossible! How could I see it wrong!" Chen Ziyun's eyes widened. He thought back to that year, when he was writing a thesis, he basically had a thorough understanding of the Sanxingdui civilization. Chen Ziyun could even read the few characters.
They were drawn in such a way that there was no way he could see them wrong. He couldn't help but said: "Where did you find these characters?"
Wang Xiaowu stood up and went to get the actual object. She knew her boss's habits very well. Whenever there was an academic argument, if you wanted to refute him, you had to get actual evidence.
"Here!" Wang Xiaowu moved a box from the metal shelf. After opening the box, he carefully took out a stone letter and placed it in front of Chen Ziyun. He said, "This is the content on the silk book inside!"
Only then did Chen Ziyun remember that there was a piece of silk in the stone letter where the black bird statue was placed. However, something happened after the black bird statue was taken out. Chen Ziyun had no time to take out the silk, let alone the contents of the silk.
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Chen Ziyun took a deep breath and signaled Wang Xiaowu to open the stone letter and took out the silk book for him to read.
"Be careful. Tomb No. d-09 should be from the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In this way, this silk can be regarded as the oldest among the similar ones unearthed." Chen Ziyun did not forget to remind Wang Xiaowu.
Wang Xiaowu said "hmm" and put the stone letter into a glass cover with a constant temperature. Then he gently opened the stone letter in his hand and carefully took out the somewhat decayed silk.
Expand it. The processed silk looks fresher and slightly smaller than the A4 paper. However, the top is still yellow-brown, with more than a dozen weird characters occupying the entire page.
The expression on Chen Ziyun's face was very exciting. He looked at the characters on the silk and didn't say a word for a while. Only then did he truly believe Wang Xiaowu's words. These talismans really came from tomb No. D-09.
"Weird!" Chen Ziyun murmured. However, he was not a closed-minded person. Although he was shocked, he was secretly looking for a reasonable explanation.
The Sanxingdui civilization was hundreds of years earlier than the Western Zhou civilization. Judging from this time difference, it is not a big deal that this tomb in the Western Zhou Dynasty contains some relics of the previous civilization. The only thing that bothers Chen Ziyun is that the Sanxingdui civilization
Located in the Sichuan Basin, it can be attributed to the civilization of the Yangtze River Basin, and is relatively isolated; but the Western Zhou Dynasty inherited the Yin and Shang civilization and belonged to the Central Plains Civilization of the Yellow River Basin. Judging from the cultural relics unearthed in the past, there is a gap between the two
The connection is not particularly close, and among all the connections, Sanxingdui Civilization is basically excluded.
But in this Western Zhou tomb, in addition to the silk with the characters of the Sanxingdui civilization, there was also a black bird statue unearthed. This thing with obvious Yin and Shang colors was in a Western Zhou tomb together with these characters.
, it makes people feel weird just looking at it.
After thinking for a while, Chen Ziyun asked: "During subsequent excavations, have the bones of the tomb owner been found or anything that can reflect the identity of the tomb owner?"
Wang Xiaowu shook his head and said: "No bones were found. No written records were found. However, judging from the scale of the cultural relics unearthed, the status should be considered noble. But there is also a doubt here, that is, no burial pit of such a high level was found.
It is really unreasonable that a tomb did not use slaves or some animals for burial." This bad custom of burial began in primitive society and was accompanied by the bloody actions of Chinese civilization for thousands of years. The deaths of princes are often accompanied by
A large number of innocent slaves were buried. The more noble the status, the more slaves were forced to be buried.
Chen Ziyun nodded and asked Xie Feng: "Where is the black bird statue?"