Let's open the coffin.

It sounds exciting, but it's actually a lot of effort.

The coffin board made of solid wood, two meters long and seventy centimeters wide, is not light at all.

Even though the coffin had decayed after years of erosion, Chen Han and the six of them still took a lot of effort to lift the coffin board.

"Hey, it's waterlogged."

As soon as the coffin board was opened, the black liquid inside the coffin immediately appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Lin Ya, who was looking forward to and excited, was immediately a little disappointed.

After the coffin was opened, it was not as she expected, there was a thousand-year-old corpse that was sleeping.

There is no fine silk appearing.

Some were just a layer of black stagnant water and rotting silk.

On top of this layer of "black water", there are also some red lumps floating, somewhat similar to clods of dirt or mud.

On these blocks, some patterns can be faintly seen.

Even, on these blocks, you can see some unweathered maggot shells.

Just looking at the scene inside the coffin, it was quite disgusting.

However, the imaginary smell of rotting corpses and objects is absent.

Through the masks, everyone only smelled a smell similar to that of earth.

Far too long has passed.

Even if the owner of the tomb who was once lying in the coffin may have rotted, deteriorated, and emitted a foul smell.

But two thousand years is enough time to digest all this.

All that's left is a layer of "organic matter" that resembles earth.

"It's a pity that the coffin is not very well preserved." Kong Jianwen shook his head regretfully.

Although I didn't expect much from tomb M-105 in the first place, it is still a pity to see the situation inside the coffin.

Generally, this kind of tomb in the Qin and Han dynasties has three "expectation points".

Precious silk products were unearthed, bamboo slips from the Qin and Han dynasties were unearthed, and complete thousand-year-old corpses were unearthed.

The most important of these are the intact silk products and bamboo slips.

Bamboo slips are good to say, any bamboo slips in the Qin and Han dynasties are very important research materials, and their value for the study of ancient culture and history is self-evident.

Silk products are also very important.

From the degree of fineness of the silk products, it can be seen that the level of development of the handicraft industry at that time.

Culturally, various objects show the social etiquette of the Western Han Dynasty.

These are of great help to the study of thought, culture and art in the Western Han Dynasty.

The silk fabrics of the Han Dynasty have been preserved less, so they are relatively more precious.

It's a pity, at present, well-preserved silk products and intact ancient corpses are not to be considered.

I can only see if there are bamboo slips in the coffin.

After observing the situation inside the coffin, Chen Han guessed: "The stagnant water in the coffin should be formed by groundwater infiltrating into the coffin. ”

"Well, it's very common for water to accumulate in the coffin." Kong Jianwen affirmed.

"Go and take some of the liquid from the coffin, and then take it for testing."

As long as it is buried underground, it is difficult to avoid the invasion of groundwater, and it is normal for some tombs to be filled with water due to the change of the underground water system.

Especially since Hubei is still a place with a well-developed water system, it is even more difficult to keep the burial chamber dry.

And because the pressure on the outside of the coffin is greater than that on the inside, the water that invades the inside of the coffin generally cannot come out after entering.

So when he saw that there was stagnant water in the coffin, Kong Jianwen was no longer looking forward to finding intact silk.

If the silk is soaked in water for a long time, it will definitely be hydrolyzed, and it is impossible to preserve it.

According to his instructions, Chen Han took a few tubes of coffin liquid from the coffin, and after sending it to a professional laboratory for testing, he began to prepare to extract the stagnant water in the coffin for the next step of cleaning up.

Naturally, there is equipment for pumping water in the workshop.

Insert the pipe into the coffin and start the pumping machine.

The black-gray stagnant water was slowly pumped up and poured into a tank that was placed aside.

Of course, pumping does not remove all the water from the coffin at once, but slowly and little by little.

While pumping water, everyone also cleaned up the burial goods in the coffin layer by layer.

The reason why it is not completely drained at once is because the stagnant water has been in the coffin for thousands of years, forming a stable environment.

If all the water is pumped out at once, and the contents of the coffin are directly exposed to the air, no one can guarantee that there will be any burial goods that will oxidize quickly.

When Chinese archaeology was just starting, there was no systematic archaeological experience and scientificity, which caused some regrets such as improper operation and loss of cultural relics.

The standards that everyone practices now are the perfect experience summed up by countless Chinese archaeological predecessors with their own mistakes.

Although I can't say that it is 100% correct, it is definitely the most effective method at this stage.

The pumping machine maintained the minimum power to work, and Chen Han and the six of them also gathered around the coffin, carefully extracting the items in the coffin.

The first to be extracted were the red lumps that floated on the stagnant water.

Kong Jianwen got closer and carefully discerned, and said calmly: "This should be a piece of silk fabric that is not completely rotten. ”

"And there's maggot shells on it."

"This shows that the owner of the tomb may have died in the heat, and died very suddenly, so suddenly that the family did not have time to prepare for him."

"So it should have been parked for a while before it was hurriedly buried."

"When he was buried, the owner of the tomb was already rotten, and the silk fabric he was wearing was also rotten, so maggots were born."

"In this way, it is very likely that the owner of the tomb died of a sudden illness, and it was an acute illness."

Kong Jianwen only relied on such a few small pieces of unknown lumps to surmise the death of the tomb owner, and even stayed for a period of time before he died.

This made Chen Han amazed.

A mentor is a mentor, and just exposing two brushes is enough for him to learn for a long time.

That's not all, Kong Jianwen paced to the side of the coffin board, reached out and touched the paint that had faded and fallen off the coffin surface, and said with great certainty:

"The coffin was painted with a single layer of paint, which also shows that the owner of the tomb did not have time to prepare before his death."

"So after preparing a coffin and a coffin, I hastily painted a layer of paint and buried it."

People in the Western Han Dynasty paid great attention to their own afterlife.

Civilians don't have that condition, so let's not talk about it for the time being.

But anyone who has a little bit of identity and status will prepare a mausoleum for himself in advance.

After the emperors ascended the throne, the first thing they did was to build the mausoleum for themselves first, basically how long they were emperors and how long they built the mausoleum.

The princes and kings below were almost the same, and after inheriting the throne, they began to build tombs.

Although the nobles did not have the condition of the old Liu family, they at least prepared the mausoleum more than ten years in advance.

Some aristocrats may have started to find a feng shui treasure after the age of thirty and built their own tombs.

At the latest, at the age of forty, when I feel that my body functions are declining, and after I have passed the prime of life, I will be anxious about repairing the tomb.

Otherwise, how could those princes, kings, princes, or great nobles suddenly have a glorious underground palace and a large tomb to live in after death?

Even if the owner of tomb M-105 is a minor nobleman with less than the title of five doctors.

No matter how bad it is, you should prepare your coffin in advance, right?

After Kong Jianwen carefully observed the coffin board, he was sure that the coffin was only painted with a single layer of paint, which was the most hasty practice for the nobles.

Although he had not yet seen the bones, he was already certain that the owner of the tomb had died of an acute illness or accident.

"Sure enough, he died young." Chen Han winked at Lin Ya.

Although he and his mentor speculated in different directions, they both came to the same conclusion.

Before the coffin was opened, he guessed that the owner of the tomb was a young nobleman who died young before the age of thirty.

Sure enough, Chen Han guessed right!