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Chapter 998 Thousand Coffins Hall

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And because of the volley placement and the relatively dry relationship in the northwest region, these coffins made of poplar wood and covered with black lacquer are relatively intact except for a few that have been damaged and fallen to the ground and rolled out of a pile of white bones.

"This is really spectacular, I am afraid that there are not many coffins in the whole world that can appear in one tomb!"

After sighing, Liu Dong went down to the bluestone square, which sank about 5 meters, through the 10-meter-wide steps connected to the main tomb road.

Looking at the coffins around him that were full of decay and dead silence, Liu Dong did not open any of them, but just walked through them with tiger heads, and quietly felt the historical afterglow of the underground palace that combines majestic magnificence and gloomy horror!

Moreover, through the relics of Yuanguang Liu Dong also found that the corpses in these coffins were not princes and nobles, they should just be funeral personnel such as eunuchs and palace maids!

The main reason for this judgment is that there are very few funerary goods in it, and the clothes left on the corpses are not particularly gorgeous.

Because of this, Liu Dong did not plan to move these coffins except for the bronze crouching tigers that carried the coffins.

Liu Dong, who had all kinds of thoughts in his mind, came to the center of the entire sunken square, looked up at the nine-meter-high, magnificent and magnificent gilded three-headed golden lion colossus in front of him, and couldn't help but marvel in his heart!

Such a masterpiece of art. It is really the essence of Kangju people's culture and art!

in the country. I'm afraid that only a bronze colossus like the Twelve Golden Men of Qin can be compared!

After looking around the gilded three-headed lion colossus for a while. Liu Dong thought about the lack of time and turned to a road on the left side of the square that led to the side hall on the left.

The reason why it is said to be a side hall instead of an ear chamber is mainly because the tomb passage here is wider, the murals are more gorgeous, the reliefs on the corners and eaves are more exquisite, and after crossing a distance of 30 meters and entering the side hall, there are more ear chambers connecting the side hall.

And these side halls and transepts are the real funerary goods with high value.

There are not only gold and silver utensils, jade and jewelry. There are various shapes of bronzes, as well as silk fabrics such as silk, Shu brocade, and silk from the Han Dynasty, as well as pottery vases and sculptures from the West, and high-value funeral goods such as Persian carpets!

Although the silk fabric has decayed a lot because it has existed for too long, a large part of it has been preserved in the case that Liu Dong is willing to repair it with relics and yuanguang.

I believe that if Liu Dong is willing to take it out, it is enough to set up a silk fabric exhibition hall in the pre-Qin, Qin and Han dynasties, and it can also fill in and modify many historical fallacies!

In the right side hall corresponding to the left side hall, Liu Dong found a large number of bamboo slips, silk books, and bay leaf scriptures. Even paper from China!

Moreover, the characters on these carriers of civilization are also diverse, including Chinese square Chinese characters. There is also the ancient script that prevailed in Central Asia, and even some hieroglyphs, as well as Sanskrit from India, Latin from the Roman Empire, and ancient Greek and ancient Egyptian scripts!

Of course, the contents of these written records are also diverse, including the Confucian classics of the Four Books and Five Classics imported from China, as well as the Buddhist "Tripitaka Sutra", as well as the ancient Greek "Geometric Originals", "Homer's Epic", and the ancient Roman "Origins" and "Gallic Wars".

Of course, most of them are the political, historical, military, economic, agricultural and water conservancy writings and accounts of Central Asian countries!

Liu Dong looked at these classical masterpieces and precious historical materials that were tightly sealed in jade boxes completely carved out of Hetian jade, and his excitement was indescribable.

In the hands of any collector or archaeologist, the value of the written object is often the highest, and in addition to the original cultural relics value, its historical and academic value is more incalculable than that of national treasures.

Now, because of the strict protection of these ancient civilization classics by the Kangju people, and Liu Dong's willingness to spend relics to repair them, thousands of volumes of books have been preserved by him as completely as possible.

It is conceivable how much impact these ancient classics, which were born more than 1,600 years ago, and even most of them have been lost, and even have a large number of errors, can have a great impact on modern ancient literature research.

Even if the contents have not been lost, the ones that have been handed down to this day are at most only the only ones from hundreds of years ago, and these are 1,600 years ago, so it is clear which is more precious and natural!

"No matter how many precious cultural relics can be found in the future, even a national treasure will not be as valuable as these books!" Liu Dong said excitedly as he looked at these neatly arranged jade boxes.

Looking at the scrolls of the history of the Kangju Kingdom known as the 'Sand Sea Ancient Scrolls' and written in the ancient Lu script, Liu Dong's hands trembled a little! The unearthing of these precious historical materials will greatly supplement the knowledge of the history, politics, economy, culture, and other aspects of the Western Regions, especially the various countries in Central Asia after BC!

It plays an immeasurable role in the study of the history of Central Asia for future generations!

And the Chinese history involved in it will also greatly make up for the Han Dynasty, and even many historical materials that have died out before!

Therefore, considering it all together, the excavation of millions of words, tens of thousands of volumes, and thousands of literary works from the East and the West and Central Asia will be no less than the famous textual archaeological excavations at home and abroad, such as the Dunhuang Treasures, the Book of the Dead Sea, and the bamboo slips of the Han Tomb in Yinque Mountain!

Of course, how to keep these things in your own hands reasonably and legally is also a matter of hard thinking, of course, the headache is put behind for the time being, and the main thing now is to enjoy the joy of getting a huge harvest!

However, in addition to a large number of books and texts of immeasurable value, there are many musical instruments in the side hall on the right, and there is no separation of ritual music since ancient times!

However, Liu Dong has never seen most of the musical instruments in the side hall, and the only thing that surprised him a little is that there are bronze chimes and braided chimes in them, and even the existence of braided chimes!

Although he was familiar with Chinese history, he had long known that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there had been commercial exchanges between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, but the appearance of this musical instrument with a distinctly Chinese flavor still surprised Liu Dong a little!

The only pity is that the level of these bells and bells is not very high, and compared with the bells of Zeng Hou Yi, they are more than one grade worse, but there are a lot of them, there are as many as forty-nine, and they all have inscriptions, the content of the inscriptions is not Chinese characters, but ancient Lu Wen, the meaning of which is to describe the process of King Kangju getting the bells from the Central Plains.

However, the person who sold the chimes to King Kangju and named 'Kai', Liu Dong had never heard of it at all, and he didn't know who it was!

But what is certain is that the messenger of King Kangju was trapped, and this is simply a counterfeit and shoddy commodity from 2,000 years ago.

But even so, it can be called a national treasure to this day! After all, it is of extraordinary significance, and its exquisiteness has reached a certain level!

Then, after Liu Dong cleaned up the things he could see, he walked along the stone corridor about 20 meters wide next to him, bypassed the central thousand coffin hall, and continued to walk back.

After 20 meters of the tomb, there is a new ear chamber on both sides of the cemetery, this time most of the burials in the ear chamber are chariots and horses, just like most of the tombs before the Han Dynasty in China have chariots and horses to accompany the burial pit, in addition to the difference in the style of chariots and horses, the burial system is very similar, and I don't know whether the Kangju people have been influenced by the Central Plains culture.

Of course, compared with those chariot and horse pits that were directly buried in the soil, resulting in serious decay in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty, because of the relationship between the environment and the good drainage system, the chariots and horses are relatively intact, of course, it is difficult to find a complete carriage.

With the exception of a few bronzes built on horse-drawn carriages, most of the wooden bodies were damaged, and the paint on the bodies had fallen badly. Fortunately, after Liu Dong was willing to repair it with the relics yuanguang, he was finally able to make two good ones!

After passing the carriage and horse burial room, and walking about 50 meters further, at the end of the wide tomb road, a white marble tomb door with a three-headed lion pattern appeared again!

However, compared with the several tomb doors that Liu Dong passed through before, this tomb door is the real gold inlaid with jade, and the three lions carved on the heavy tomb door are not stone but real gold, and the lion relief painting is extremely fine, plus the size of the relief is even larger than the real lion, so the value is naturally immeasurable!

As soon as Liu Dong's flashlight hit, the gold did not oxidize, and it still looked golden under the dazzling incandescent light.

The three-headed golden lion reliefs as tall as adults are enough to arouse the greed of any tomb robber, and then desperately pounce on them to buckle down the two golden lion reliefs.

But Liu Dong was in no hurry to go up!

"Kangju people are really insidious!"

After Liu Dong sighed in his heart, he strode forward and pushed open the two embossed golden lion gates, but he did not rush over the doorrail.

"Wang ......!"

At this time, the lion's head suddenly barked, and then the slightly low, penetrating and intimidating mastiff bark was heard, as if it had spread to a very distant place in an instant, and even echoed! Obviously, behind this tomb door was not a common tomb road, but a huge space.

"Woohoo......!"

Apparently, the lion's head was also startled by the sudden appearance of a huge echo, and a low, threatening voice came from his throat, looking vigilantly at the darkness ahead.

The lion's head soon screamed with the tiger head who had just been in the tomb, suppressed by the dead silence and decay in it, and the restless little gold who had just been born.

For a while, the barking of dogs and the chirping of eagles in unison also broke the dead silence in this thousand-year-old place!

……………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued......)