Chen Han smashed his mouth, very envious.

If a tomb is stolen, the best case scenario is to find it as soon as it was stolen.

This would at least give the authorities a chance to recover the stolen artefacts.

After all, it is now a modern society, and everyone's every move is traced by big data and national networking.

After determining that a tomb has been stolen somewhere, according to this clue, you can always find some clues.

Although I don't dare to pack a ticket to recover 100% of the stolen cultural relics, even most of the time the recovery can only recover a part.

But at least there's a chance!

Unlike the Wenfeng Pagoda tomb group at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, it was stolen as early as ancient times, and it should have been stolen more than once.

Tomb M2 is clean and clean, until now, I don't know who the owner of tomb M2 is, is it the wife of Marquis Zeng, or a brother, or a descendant?

I don't know.

Now here in the Yejiashan cemetery, the cultural relics stolen by the tomb robbers can be recovered, and listening to Luo Zhenghao's meaning, a lot of them have been recovered!

Chen Han is called an envy.

"Are there any inscriptions on the artifacts you have excavated and recovered? What is the content of the inscription? Chen Han hurriedly asked.

"Inscription."

Luo Zhenghao shook his head, paused deliberately, and teased Chen Han before he said slowly: "Now the excavation task has not been completely completed." ”

"For the time being, excavations have been carried out on M1, M2 and M27."

"After cleaning up most of the area, more than 130 cultural relics were unearthed from the three tombs, of which more than 40 were recovered by the public security organs."

"Among them, there are 60 bronze artifacts alone, including four categories: ritual weapons, weapons, chariots and horses, and tools."

"There are more than 40 pieces of the most important ritual vessels, mainly including Ding, Gui, Bottle, Mustache, Zun, Lu, Rhino, Jue, Yao, Jie, Dagger, and some bronze vessels have inscriptions."

"What, what are you looking for the inscription for?"

I heard that more than 60 bronzes have been unearthed, and there are more than 40 of them alone!

Chen Han hurriedly told Luo Zhenghao about his speculation and judgment of Zeng Guo and Zeng Hou, Wenfeng Tower's discovery of evidence that Zeng Sui was a country, and so on.

"Chimes? Luck is too! ”

"It also recorded the battle of Wu Pochu and Ying?!"

"it, it!"

"The ancestor of Zeng Guo is Nangong Shi? Sealed to Suizhou by King Wen? ”

"Damn, Lao Chen, what kind of big bomb did you dig up?"

Luo Zhenghao was excited, and his mouth was full of vulgar words.

For the field of archaeology, the bell found by the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences on the side of the Wenfeng Pagoda is definitely an important weapon of the country!

Perhaps this chime is not as beautiful as the chimes of Zeng Hou Yi.

But in terms of the amount of information, it completely crushed the bell of Zeng Hou Yi!

In the history books, Nangong Shi, an important minister in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, was actually the first king of the Zeng Kingdom!

This news is simply amazing!

"I don't know the progress of the research on the inscription!"

"Let's go, I'll take you to Professor Mu!"

"Professor Mu is our specialist in bronze inscriptions, and he knows it!"

Luo Zhenghao hurriedly pulled Chen Han and rushed to the mobile board house next to the construction site.

Although Peking University is the highest institution of archaeology in China.

But not all undergraduate graduates of the Department of Archaeology of Peking University can understand the big seal like Chen Han!

I don't learn this thing at all at the undergraduate level, it's a course in paleography!

And it is a study direction that can only be chosen by graduate students or above!

Not to mention the big seal, even the small seal, Luo Zhenghao doesn't know anything.

He will only do tomb exploration and excavation and clean-up work.

At least the old professor in the institute may know enough about the big seal.

In fact, as long as the bronzes unearthed in the Yejiashan cemetery have inscriptions, they must be rubbed down as soon as possible and sent to major paleographic research institutions and experts.

Luo Zhenghao took Chen Han and soon came to the unearthed cultural relics preservation room on the side of the Yejiashan cemetery.

Professor Mu, who studies ancient characters at the Jingzhou Institute of Archaeology, is leading a few researchers to study some inscriptions.

This scene gave Chen Han a sense of déjà vu.

He'd just come from such an identical place...

"Professor Mu!"

"This is my classmate, who is now studying for a doctorate at the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences!"

"The Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery in charge of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has made a big discovery!"

Luo Zhenghao came to Professor Mu's side and relayed what Chen Han said to him as it was.

After listening to the introduction, Professor Mu looked at Chen Han in astonishment, and asked in surprise, "The inscription that recorded the battle of Wu Pochu and Yingying?" It is also recorded that the ancestor of Zeng Guo was Nangong Shi? ”

"Yes, if Professor Mu needs it, I can send you a copy of the inscription rubbing."

Chen Han took out his mobile phone, opened the photo album, and showed Professor Mu some of the inscriptions he had taken.

"Awesome, awesome." Professor Mu held his mobile phone and marveled again and again.

Although he couldn't decipher the meaning of the inscription for a while, he could roughly recognize half of the words.

It can be roughly seen that this is indeed an inscription that records the battle of Wu Chu and the birth of the Zeng State.

"Nangong?"

Professor Mu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Xiao Chen, right?" ”

"I kind of know what you're here for."

"After preliminary excavations, it can be roughly determined that this area of Yejiashan is indeed an early cemetery of the Zeng Kingdom."

"At present, the three tombs excavated have unearthed a number of unequal burial utensils, from the shape of the utensils, ornamentation and other aspects of the investigation, and the excavated Western Zhou tombs unearthed artifacts have many similarities, it can be determined that the age should belong to the Western Zhou Dynasty."

"And according to the detailed differences in the bronzes unearthed from the three tombs, it can be judged that the age of the M1 tomb is the earliest, and the bronze ritual vessels produced by it have the style of the Chengkang world."

"Its age is roughly in the period of King Cheng or King Kang of the Western Zhou Dynasty."

"The age of M2 should be roughly in the time of Kang Zhao, while the age of M27 seems to be in the late Zhao Dynasty or the time of Zhao Mu."

"But it's a pity that there is no special record of the inscription on the bronze artifacts unearthed so far."

On the square tripod and round tripod unearthed from tomb M1, the inscriptions are all "Shi Zuo Father Yi Bao Zun Yi", and the tomb owner may be called "Shi", an early nobleman of Zeng State, not Zeng Marquis. ”

"M2 unearthed 1 piece of round tripod and 2 pieces of crotch tripod are all "Zeng Hou Zhi Bao Yi", the other 2 pieces of Gui and 1 piece of Ji are "Zeng Hou Zhi Wan Bao Yi", the maker is Zeng Hou Zhi. ”

"Judging from the content of the inscription, the owner of the M2 tomb should be the wife of Zeng Houji, not Zeng Houji."

"We also found the tomb of Zeng Houji, which is about ten meters west of Tomb M2, which is a typical tomb of husband and wife in the early Western Zhou Dynasty."

As for the M27 tomb, the harvest is even smaller, and there is an inscription on 2 of the square tripods of "Zeng Hou Zuo Baozun Yi Ding". ”

"But I didn't see the private name of this Zeng Hou."

Moreover, there is an inscription on one of the bowls unearthed in the tomb that reads "Bosheng Zuo Yi Zeng", which may be the owner of the tomb is Bosheng or Mrs. Bosheng. ”

"The three tombs excavated so far should not be the tombs of Marquis Zeng."

"On the inscriptions of the unearthed bronzes, there is no detailed record of a certain Zeng Marquis."

"So, Xiao Chen, you may have run for nothing."

"The tomb of the early Marquis Zeng has not yet been excavated, and for the time being, there is no relevant inscription record with Nangong Shi or the ancestor of Zeng!"