Chapter 22: The Beginning of the Excavation
Shouyang County, 300 miles west of Lhasa City, has been under full martial law at this time, because on a piece of land in the east of Shouyang County, last week, a group of real estate construction teams worked there, and hundreds of white bones were dug out, and after expert identification, from the ratio of the carbon-14 and carbon-12 content of these white bones, it can be concluded that the age of the survival of the owners of these white bones is likely to be 1,300 years ago, that is, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty.
What's even more surprising is that with the arrival of the archaeological excavation team, a large number of white bones have been excavated one after another, the number is huge, unprecedented, after thousands of years of corrosion, most of these white bones are corroded strictly, unrecognizable, but with the excavation deep, the white bones buried in the depths of the land are more and more complete, and these white bones, you can vaguely see the bronzes worn by those people, after preliminary inference, here, it is about the ancient battlefield of Central Asia when Zhenguan was ten years old, the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire, here, launched a battle to the death.
The fate of the two powerful empires, after this war, will also be rewritten, this war, determine the direction of the world, but also determine who can become the hegemon of the world
"The Central Asian War, as we all know, because of a fire in the Royal Library, all the precious historiographical materials were burned, and the historiography books compiled by later generations are also full of loopholes, so to speak, the history of the Central Asian War in Chinese history can be said to be a blank, but now, we actually found the ancient battlefield of the year, judging from the placement of the corpses, these people were all buried alive and died, and the bones of the people at the bottom are more well preserved, and even because they are underground, many bronzes have been preserved. Arguably. Over here. We can go back to that turbulent time and see with our own eyes what happened in that era.
The central government also attaches great importance to this piece of history, and has allocated 10 million yuan to conduct a thorough excavation investigation here, and this time it has also invited the leaders of the archaeological industry, hoping that everyone can make bold conjectures and carefully verify them, so as to deduce the most true historical facts. Fill the gap in the glorious history of our Chinese People's Empire. An old man stood on the podium and just finished speaking, and the audience suddenly burst into thunderous applause.
"What Dean Li Lin said is too good, we will definitely do our best to crack the code hidden in the ancient battlefield, so that future generations can see the true legacy of the Tang Dynasty." When the old man walked off the podium, a middle-aged man about the same age as him also held the old man's hand and said excitedly.
"Then please Professor Wang, okay, Xiaolei, take you to the protection room to change clothes." The old man waved his hand.
"Okay, Dean." Han Lei turned her head, "Professors." And the assistants you brought with you, please follow me to the protective room on the second floor to change protective clothing. After changing clothes, we had a special car to take us to the excavation site. ”
A yellow cordon was set up all around, and excavators in white protective suits were everywhere, and they were seen constantly brushing the ground with small brushes, brushing out the corpses and relics that had been sleeping for thousands of years from the soil.
More than 100 acres of land have now been bulldozed a layer, in the center of the bulldozed land, there is a huge pit, at the bottom of the pit, even more than tens of meters, many excavators are digging with flashlights below.
After a strict check, three black jeeps slowly drove into the excavation area from outside the gate, and stopped in the rest area outside the excavation area, from which a group of people in white protective clothing walked down.
"Everyone follow me, you all have excavation tools in your hands, now the excavation has been carried out to the eleventh layer, the further down the bones are preserved, the more items you carry, after a preliminary investigation, we found that those buried from the tenth floor down, they may have been some nobles in the army during their lifetimes."
"Aristocrats." Lin Feng exclaimed, Li Yunyun next to him pinched his trouser leg, and said angrily: "Don't make such a fuss." Lin Feng scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Yes." Han Lei said: "Now the bones you have excavated, they have a lot of bronze artifacts, the most is the crescent moon scimitar, and many of the scimitars worn by the bones below are inlaid with gems, as well as their helmets, there are also a few gems and glass, from these things, I think the professors should be able to analyze a lot of things." ”
"Indeed, if it is really inlaid with glass, it proves that the glass technology completely mastered by the Tang Dynasty at that time has been circulated to Central Asia, this commodity economy is extremely huge, and it can have a huge impact on the commodity trade in the entire Central Asian region, and since these nobles are buried underneath, just in the conference room, the dean said that there is no blunt force injury on the bones of these people, so it proves that they were buried alive, what did they do, and the Tang army will bury them alive? As far as I know, according to the social structure of the Tang Dynasty mentioned in Professor Liu Congwen's "Da Tang Capital", the demand for labor was very huge according to the era, and even during the Tang Dynasty, the black slave trade began overseas, which shows that the Tang Dynasty was very short of labor, and I can't understand why the Tang people killed all the labor force. A middle-aged man with glasses said slowly.
"Professor Chang's reasoning is very reasonable, but let's go to the scene first and make a decision there."
Lin Feng and the others followed Professor Chen Zhen, and the group walked all the way around the stairs built by the dirt zero hour towards the bottom of the pit, the more downward, the darker it became, and the staff leading the way in front began to turn on the searchlight, so that they could see the whole pit clearly at a glance.
In order to ensure the integrity of the research, archaeologists have dug out the bones layer by layer, restored, fixed, and then taken out, and finally stored the bones that have formed fossils in glass cabinets, which will later become cultural relics in the museum.
"Senior Sister Qing'er, don't you think this place is very gloomy?" Lin Feng pulled the sleeve of a person beside him and whispered.
"Of course it's gloomy, it's a mass grave here." Zhang Qing'er also said curtly.
Soon, the crowd reached the very bottom of the pit, where more than a dozen staff members were still digging nervously.
I saw Han Lei, who led the team, turn around and say to everyone: "Everyone, now you can carry out the excavation work, if you come to any opinions, you can use headphones to page, and I will print your ideas and ideas into a paper version and report them as first-hand information."
(To be continued......)
PS: Three more serving, a little tired, good night to all book friends.