Although the ruins of this ancient city are very close to the outside, as close as only six kilometers in a straight line, the surrounding terrain is very complicated. Perhaps it is because of this that the ruins of this ancient city here are not easily discovered. It is also for this reason.
Han Kongque was wondering how Zhang Mei and the others found this place.
Zhang Mei glanced at Han Kongque with some admiration and said: "We discovered this ruins through satellite remote sensing images, and organized an expedition team to go to the site to confirm that the scale of this large ancient building ruins is the largest in the Luo and Bu Nur areas.
A new site second only to the Loulan site."
"This is the outermost area of Lop Nur. Are you sure this site is ancient and not modern?" Huangshan asked.
Zhang Meili was amused and said: "If we hadn't done the research, why would we have spent a lot of money and wasted time here?"
"What age is this ancient city?" Han Peacock asked.
"It should have been built during the Northern Wei Dynasty. As for when it was buried by the yellow sand, I don't know. We need to continue to research." Zhang Mei.
"Northern Wei Dynasty? Can this be studied and understood?" Huangshan was a little unconvinced.
Zhang Meidao: "We analyzed the carbon 14 age of the newly discovered ancient city ruins and 18 ancient building samples such as Loulan, Fangcheng, Qierqiduk Ancient City, Milan Ancient Fort, Tuyin, etc. The results show that: the ancient city walls here
The age is around AD 440-500, which happens to be the Northern Wei Dynasty, so this ancient city should have been formed during the Northern Wei Dynasty."
Han Kongque looked at this new site, which is about 80 kilometers away from the ancient city of Yingpan (probably the capital of Moshan Kingdom) to the northwest and about 110 kilometers from the ancient city of Loulan to the east.
It should not be difficult to verify which city in history this place is. After all, this city is not small. If it is really an ancient city, it should be very famous.
Thinking of this, Han Kongque was moved in his heart and said, "You should know which ancient city this is, right?"
Zhang Mei said with approval again: "Our preliminary guess is that this should be Zhubin City."
"Zhubin City? That famous city on the Silk Road? So, we are next to Zhubin River?" Han Kongque thought for a moment and remembered the origin of Zhubin City.
Han Kongque is knowledgeable and memorized, so he naturally knows what Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty wrote about Zhubin City in "Shui Jing Zhu": "The river passes eastward to the south of Moshan State, and east to the south of Zhubin City, and east to the south of Loulan City and east to Zhu."
This shows that Zhubin City and Zhubin River have the same name, and also explains the relative position of Zhubin City to the Moshan Kingdom in the northwest and the Loulan Kingdom in the east.
"A city is named after a river, or a river is named after a city. This is a common theory in ancient and modern times. From the age, geographical location and ancient document records of the new site, it is speculated that it is Zhubin City recorded in "Shui Jing Zhu" by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
It makes sense, so we tentatively named the new site 'Zhubinhe Ancient City Site'." Zhang Meidao.
Based on the age, geographical location and literature, it is feasible to speculate which ancient city the newly discovered ancient city is, but Han Kongque believes that the final conclusion needs to be proven by excavation work.
"Is that the Zhubin River? A tributary of the Kongque River?" Han Kongque asked, pointing to a place that looked like a dry river.
As the exchange between Han Kongque and Zhang Mei deepened, an old man beside Zhang Mei couldn't help but said: "That should be Zhubin River, about Zhubin River. According to our previous research, we believe that the ancient river channel of Xiaohe to the west of Xiaohe Cemetery. As Peacock
The tributary of the river is Zhubin River.
Because the site is adjacent to the ancient Silk Road post station Alagan and is at the crossroads of the east-west and north-south transportation routes of the Silk Road, therefore, regardless of whether the site is ultimately a 'Zhubin City', it plays an important role on the Silk Road.
There is no doubt about it.”
"This is Professor Gu Chengliang, the consultant we invited." Zhang Mei introduced the old man.
"Are you Han Peacock? Modu University of Science and Technology is famous all over the world because of you. I guess you are also a knowledgeable person. You should judge the origin of this ancient city based on the positions of several rivers here." After Gu Chengliang finished speaking, he walked in first.
to the ancient city.
Han Peacock smiled and said, "You should have confirmed it, right?"
"Boss Zhang must have told you about this, right? During the research process, we used carbon dating to once again determine Loulan, Fangcheng, Qierqiduk Ancient City, Milan Ancient Fort, and Tuyin in the Lop Nur area.
The specific age of the site.
The ages of the five sites are: Loulan Pagoda (about 100-230 AD), Fangcheng City Wall (about 230-300 AD), Qierqiduk City Wall (about 200 AD), Tuyin (about 200 AD)
100 years); the pillars in the ancient fort at the Milan site are about 370 AD, and the wall foundation on the north side of the west gate of the ancient fort is the youngest (about 770 AD), which belongs to the Tang Dynasty period.
Through the carbon 14 age analysis of 18 ancient building samples from the newly discovered ancient city ruins, Loulan, Fangcheng, Qierqiduk Ancient City, Milan Ancient Fort, Tuyin and other ruins, the results show that the age of the ancient city walls here is approximately
It was formed in the Northern Wei Dynasty around AD 440-500, which is about 100-300 years younger than the construction time of the other five sites.
Based on the age of the wall and the types and geographical location of the cultural relics initially discovered, the newly discovered ancient city ruins may be the 'Zhubin City' recorded in the Northern Wei Dynasty documents. Therefore, we have tentatively named the ruins 'Zhubin River Ancient City Ruins'
.
Although the affiliation and functions of the 'Zhubin River Ancient City Ruins' have yet to be excavated in detail, the site is close to Arakan, an ancient post station on the Silk Road, and is at the crossroads of the east-west and north-south transportation routes of the Silk Road. Therefore, regardless of the
Whether this site is ultimately the 'Zhubin City' and its important position on the Silk Road are unquestionable. In this way..."
"Mr. Gu, it's time for you to get to work. I'll tell Xiao Han what he wants to know." Before Gu Chengliang could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Zhang Mei.
However, what Gu Chengliang wanted to say, Han Kongque had roughly guessed that the establishment of a city was naturally not that simple. In ancient times, if you wanted to build a city, resources were extremely important. If there were not enough resources, the population of a city would be
What is there to live on?
Seeing Han Kongque who was thoughtful, and then looking at Zhang Mei who didn't want him to continue talking, Gu Chengliang gave a bitter smile.
He also wanted to discuss it with Han Kongque. After all, there is no false scholar under the famous name. Han Kongque has gained such a great reputation in a period of time, so he naturally has some skills.
And he had many questions and wanted to understand them, but most of the people here were laymen and could not provide him with any enlightening opinions.
"Whether the ancient city below is Zhubin City or not, you will find out later when you go down and take a look." Gu Chengliang shook his head regretfully and left.
From a distance, Han Peacock could clearly see that this site consists of an ancient city and residential sites, with a distribution area of about 60 to 70 square kilometers.
With the ancient city as the center, 3 kilometers to the northwest is the ancient city and 8 kilometers to the residential site.
As he got closer, Han Peacock discovered that the city walls were made of rammed earth. Judging from some of the excavated, broken city walls, these walls were extremely primitive, because Han Peacock could see the tamarisk and poplar branches inside the walls.
After actually walking into this ancient city, Han Kongque discovered that most of the place had been excavated by Zhang Mei and others. It can be seen from this that they have been here for a long time.
Perhaps it was because the excavation took so long that Zhang Mei was short of funds, otherwise Han Kongque would not have had the chance to follow her.
"How did Boss Zhang discover this place?" I am really curious about this Han Peacock.
Zhang Mei said with a smile: "That can only be an accident. At that time, I was using my laptop at home to retrieve satellite image data of the Xiaohe ruins, Milan ruins, Loulan ruins, etc., and conducted high-resolution analysis of the 20 to 30 kilometers around the Xiaohe ruins.
During the resolution scan, I suddenly discovered that about 5 to 6 kilometers northwest of Xiaohe Cemetery, at the center of the meander on the west bank of the ancient river channel, there was a right-angled shape composed of obvious white strips running nearly north-south and nearly east-west.
The right angle is in the southeast, like an inverted L-shape. Whether it is a nearly north-south or nearly east-west strip, it is completely different from the direction of the sand dune extension controlled by the wind direction and the direction of the Yadan landform distribution. The east-west strip in the south has a dark shadow.
, there seemed to be a bulge, and I suspected it was artificially formed, so I organized people to come over and check it out, but I didn’t expect that this place is really an ancient city.”
Han Peacock was dubious about this statement. After all, he was so lucky. Looking at satellite images, he could also discover an ancient city. This was really incredible.
Looking at the size of this ancient city and the progress of the excavations here, Han Kongque knew that if it was really an ancient city that had never been excavated before, Zhang Mei's gains would be astonishing.
Seeing Han Kongque not believing it, Zhang Mei could only smile bitterly. To be honest, no one believed it.
Zhang Mei was very busy, so she left after Han Kongque walked into the ruins of the ancient city.
In fact, Han Kongque didn't know that Zhang Mei really wasn't lying. After discovering this place, she couldn't help but feel excited and organized an expedition team. The day after they arrived at the ruins, they headed for the L-shaped suspicious point.
Walking east through the desert, they found spinning wheels, pottery sherds, animal bones, etc., and two five-baht coins on the flat land between sand dunes about 1.5 kilometers west of the suspicious point.
After arriving at the suspicious point, the first thing you saw was a piece of red-burnt soil covering an area of several square meters, and a pile of stones or stone tools about 10 to 20 centimeters in size appeared to the east.
Then it was discovered that the southern wall made of tamarisk and soil extended to the east end, and samples of tamarisk branches were collected near the top of the interrupted wall.
The wall in the north-south direction in the east only exposes the bottom of the wall base, which is about 6 to 8 meters wide. It is constructed of artificially accumulated soil and is relatively flat.
On the inside of the wall, intermittent red-burnt soil is distributed. Charcoal was found in many places of the red-burnt soil. Two charcoal samples were collected from the southern and middle ends of the red-burnt soil. In addition, some pottery fragments are scattered on and around the wall.
On the east-west wall on the north side, the inspection team measured that the top of the wall was 6 meters wide.
There are many sand dunes distributed in the west, and no west wall was found, confirming that this suspicious point is a large ancient city ruins composed of three walls with a side length of about 220 meters. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for better updates of the novel. Faster!