Chapter 613: A Steel Dagger from 2,500 Years Ago
Several local laborers and doctoral students from the United States went down to the cemetery and thought of a way to open the door a large section to ventilate. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Liu Wendong helped monitor the environment of the tomb for a while again, and then completely handed over the location of the tomb door to William.
Wait, Zhang Nan also explained to the curious Adjani: "This is an ancient tomb that is more than 2,000 years old, and you can't use ventilation equipment directly, you can only ventilate it naturally, otherwise the things inside will quickly weather." ”
Let the people who should do the manual work be busy, and Zhang Nan and his group will be the uncles above.
Under the parasol, this Adjani suddenly thought of something.
"Alan, where's that mummy?"
The Meroe dynasty also popularized the mummified funeral culture, and also used human-shaped coffins similar to those of ancient Egypt, but I didn't see it at all.
Zhang Nan was drinking water, put down the cup and said: "The family is the king, and he lives in the presidential suite, the one just now is at most the living room, and the bedroom is inside."
It's a bit like Tutankhamun's, and the passage is supposed to be sealed again after the burial. ”
After waiting for half an hour, Zhang Nan and his group went down to the tomb again and saw the tomb that had been closed for more than 2,000 years.
I didn't walk in, this is archaeology, not tomb robbery, and it's still early to move things directly.
There is a lot of work in the early stage, not only to take pictures and make records, but also to draw by hand, both of which take a day or two.
Fortunately, there was no porcelain in the Kush Kingdom more than 2,000 years ago, otherwise this set of processes would definitely lead to complete destruction of archaeology!
Seeing that a few people below were busy there, Zhang Nan felt that this archaeology was actually quite fucked: no matter what your identity was, slaves and kings were the same, and they dug you up from the beginning.
The ancient kings of Egypt and Sudan were even more miserable, and they were still being visited as exhibits after thousands of years of death, fuck it!
The people at the door of the tomb were busy making records, and Zhang Nan could actually walk in before drawing, because he was the richest here and had the biggest fist, but he still didn't do it well: he would want to go in, and he really had to be brute - this Eternal King Setty seemed to be a fan of wealth, and the vestibule of the tomb was stuffed with burial goods, and he didn't even have a place to put his feet before he gradually cleaned up!
Can't get in!
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For more than an hour, Adjani went down to see it several times, and when it was close to noon, she said something a little worried.
"Alan, why do I feel like something inside seems to have changed color, and this oxidation will be so fast?"
Zhang Nan went to look at it just now, and when he heard this, he got up from his chair and said, "Let's go, it's too hot." ”
didn't answer directly, and walked back with Adjani for a while before saying: "Digging the king's grave, this is called lack of virtue."
The oxidation rate here is quite slow, and people have been lying underground for thousands of years, which sounds like archaeology, but in fact, there is a legal reason for it compared with tomb robbing.
If you do engineering and find it by chance, it can only be excavated, and archaeology like this is really lacking in morality. ”
"If you lack virtue, then you can make do with it. ”
"It's fun, I'm not coming back, it's a dig anyway, it's not bad to watch a lively. ”
It's a little boring, and when eating Chinese food, Zhang Nan and Guan Boss mentioned that they planned to leave after the inner room opened.
When Boss Guan heard this, he said: "It's either your own things or boring, if it's all yours, I guess you won't be bored." ”
Zhang Nan shook his head and said, "I'm timid, I don't want a spiritual weapon." ”
"Whoever wants those spirit beds and soul cabinets, I see that you are quite interested in those weapons by the tomb gate. ”
Some Nubian fellows, some of the strange large bronze knives of the early scythe, as well as Hellenistic daggers, some of which are covered with gold leaf and gemstones.
It should be the king's weapon, and it looks beautiful.
"That's okay, but this environment is not suitable, forget it, it's not a magic weapon anyway. ”
The two were chatting in their hometown dialect, and Adjani listened to two sentences and thought it was a book from heaven, so she said hello and went back to the RV first.
"Do you want a magic weapon?"
"Nonsense, of course. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Nan came back and said, "Hindsight, everyone has already taken photos for records, Brother Guan, you don't want to rob it, right?"
Guan Xingquan smiled coolly, "Can I do it?"
As he spoke, he didn't know where to pull out an object wrapped in a black plastic bag.
"Chen Hao helped you get it, those Nubians are also interesting, probably hanging this thing behind the tomb door to ward off evil spirits.
Originally, a thin rope fell on the edge of the door and broke, but Chen Hao and Wenbo have already helped you clean up. ”
Zhang Nan took over this object, which was about 30 centimeters long, very heavy, and didn't ask why he came to take the sheep by the hand.
The people of the Cultural Affairs Council can sell the contents of the treasury and give them benefits, which is not a matter of scooping up souvenirs from the tomb of the king of the Sultan more than 2,000 years ago.
Chen Hao and Wenbo were the first to use instruments to probe the inside of the tomb, probably because they felt that this thing was really good, and it was expected that the boss would like it.
His gang is bold enough to poke a hole in the sky, and as for Boss Guan, he has burned the royal tombs of small countries in the Western Regions with himself, and he will not take this to heart.
As for giving it to myself now, it's probably because I take into account Adjani's feelings, or I'm sure that this thing is not too evil before I give it to myself.
Looking left and right, the people of the "United Forces" had already left, and Jin Wenbo actually stood at the door of the big tent like a door god, not caring about the heat outside and running in.
Sentry too.
When he opened the plastic bag, Zhang Nan's eyes lit up!
"Good stuff!"
A dagger about 35 centimeters long, with a conical nearly cylindrical gold handle, is just right and very comfortable to hold in one hand.
The handle is also inlaid with three circles of small gemstones, red, blue and green, and at the end of the handle is a crystal carved with the head of a jackal.
The sheath is also gold, with a lily-themed carving on one side and a feather-like pattern on the other.
This made Zhang Nan immediately think of Tutankhamun's golden dagger, and said with wide eyes: "Don't tell me that this is iron!"
"You can see it yourself, it's not iron, it's steel. ”
As soon as you remove the dagger sheath, you can gasp!
The cold light was shining, this was actually a steel dagger that was at least 2,500 years old, and there were almost no traces of rust on it!
Zhang Nan didn't sigh at anything incredible, because this should be a dagger made of meteoric iron, and it has not been rusted for more than two thousand years, and the dry environment here is only one of the reasons.
The biggest reason is that it should be a kind of "stainless steel" after all, containing a lot of nickel, and there is only one possible source: space!
In the Spring and Autumn Period in Huaxia, or even earlier, there were steel divine weapons, which were most likely also from meteoric iron, so it was not too strange for Zhang Nan to have this dagger in his hand.
It is not so difficult to process bronze and weapons with meteorite iron of sufficient purity.
There are still words engraved on the blade of the dagger, but unfortunately, hieroglyphs, I can't read it.