In the past few days of waiting for the arrival of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology has not done nothing.

After three days of investigation, the local archaeologists basically figured out the structure and scale of the tomb, and with the assistance of the construction site, built a large rainproof basin to protect the cemetery.

In fact, the tomb they led the people from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences to see was only a little remnant of the entrance.

At that time, the on-site construction site directly dug out the stone slab of the top of the tomb.

Generally, the tombs of the Qin and Han dynasties are in the shape of "A".

The horizontal line below "A" is the tomb road, which is used to carry the mound of earth up and down for the construction workers.

Generally speaking, the tomb passage is directly connected to the ground, and the tomb tunnel can be backfilled after the burial chamber is completed.

In order to prevent theft, many people will backfill all kinds of strange things in the tomb.

There are also people who are very chicken thieves, making a fake tomb on the tomb road, and the real tomb is placed under the fake tomb.

However, in the actual archaeological excavation process, it is rare to actually dig along the tomb road.

All of them are directly cleaned out of the soil layer from top to bottom.

As the soil layer is cleared, the grave roads with different colors of soil will naturally be cleared.

As for the tomb robbers, they all make a hole directly to the tomb.

Whether it is serious or improper, basically do not take the cemetery.

In particular, the excavation of Xianggang directly cleared out the 20-meter soil layer and cut out a 7,000-square-meter piece of land.

The grave roads were basically raised.

Only a section of the tomb near the level of the burial chamber remains.

That is, the corridor in front of the tomb gate.

"The entrance to the existing tomb is 10.46 meters long, 2.50 meters wide near the tomb gate, 2.36 meters wide at the southern end, and 3.22 meters deep from the current surface."

"The long sides of the east and west are basically straight, the upper mouth is slightly wider than the bottom, the two walls are slightly oblique, the bi surface is not very smooth, and there are many pits formed by collapse, indicating that the tomb road wall has a slight collapse phenomenon after excavation."

The staff of the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology are carefully introducing the situation to everyone from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

"The remnants of the tomb are all ten meters long? Sure enough, it's the king's tomb..."Zhuang Yunpeng muttered in surprise.

"The ten-meter-long tomb road has an inclination of just over 3 meters, so if you want to repair it to the ground, this tomb road must not be seventy or eighty meters long?"

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It is not that the difference between the ground and the burial chamber is 20 meters, but the tomb passage is only 20 meters.

Straight up and straight down is not called a cemetery, it is called a well!

If you want to be able to walk and build stairs, the tomb must be built at an angle.

It's like a subway passage that you usually take on the subway, and you go down diagonally.

"Now that everyone has arrived, the excavation work will officially start tomorrow."

"Let's clear the grave first."

Zhai Heng, deputy director of the Guangdong Institute of Archaeology, clapped his hands and said.

Kong Jianwen and Professor Li are all right, and everyone does not need to take a few extra days off, and they will be able to work tomorrow.

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The next day, several crane trucks took the lead in driving to the excavation site.

Local archaeologists have already investigated it clearly.

In this tomb tunnel about 10 meters long, there is not only a layer of filled earth, but also a layer of filled stones.

The height of the fill is level with the surface of the tomb at the time of its discovery.

In other words, the fill must be removed before everyone can clean the fill underneath.

There are a total of 18 stones, 16 of which were filled near the tomb door, as if to block the door.

The last two pieces are seven meters away from the tomb door, which is already the upper slope of the tomb road, which seems to be the meaning of blocking the tomb entrance.

This made the archaeologists at the scene very curious about the seven-meter space from the tomb door to the tomb road.

The front is blocked, and the back is also blocked, which means that something must be buried in the middle!

You must know that this ten-meter remnant tomb road is only a part of the original tomb road, only one-seventh of the length of the original tomb road.

It's just that it's kept because it's closest to the tomb door.

So, in the place closest to the tomb door, why is there a tomb road specially blocked?

If it is said that inside the tomb door is the tomb of the king of Nanyue, that is, his palace underground.

So will he arrange some "guards" to guard his palace at the door of his house?

Thinking of this stubble, every archaeologist at the scene was on fire in their hearts.

After more than a dozen rocks were removed, more than 30 archaeologists from the three archaeological institutes immediately devoted themselves to cleaning up the tomb.

Chen Han also squatted on the east wall of the tomb, holding a shovel and constantly shoveling out the soil.

In the process of shoveling the soil, he also reached out from time to time to grab a little filler, rubbed it on his hands, rubbed it, and smelled it.

And they also exchange information with other people.

"Well, all the fill, it's yellow-brown sub-clay."

"This shows that the tomb should be backfilled as a whole, and the amount of work is not small."

Chen Han rubbed the fill in his hands, and sighed in his heart.

There is no trace of the filling of the earth, which means that no one has re-excavated the tomb after the backfilling.

This shows that the tomb has not been stolen and excavated!

It's not easy to find a tomb from the Qin and Han dynasties that hasn't been stolen...

I didn't see Zhao Yingqi's tomb, it was excavated at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In this way, for a whole day, more than 30 people squatted beside the cemetery, busy cleaning the cemetery.

In one day, everyone dug 2.7 meters and cleared half of the tomb.

In the filling, some Jomon remnants were also found one after another.

Some of these tiles are decorated with polka dots, while others are plain.

Qin bricks and Han tiles.

When the Nanyue Kingdom existed, it happened to be the Western Han Dynasty in the Central Plains.

It seems that the advanced tiles of the Western Han Dynasty also circulated to the Nanyue Kingdom through trade routes, and were used by the Nanyue monarch to fill the tomb road.

At the time, this must have been considered a luxury.

But apart from the tiles, we haven't found anything else yet.

After the excavation work in the afternoon, Chen Han also received a task to map the longitudinal section of the tomb road filling and soil filling.

An archaeologist who doesn't want to be a good painter is not a good archaeologist.

Anyone who studies archaeology must also learn surveying and mapping.

Like civil engineering, archaeological engineering is inseparable from surveying and mapping.

The size, shape, and style of the tomb all need to be surveyed and mapped.

The size, shape, and style of the excavated objects also need to be drawn.

These are to be compiled into an excavation briefing archive later.

When Chen Han was studying two months ago, he followed Kong Jianwen to draw stick figures for the cultural relics unearthed in the Wenfeng Pagoda cemetery.

He didn't complain less.

Now there is the technology to take pictures and keep files, why bother to paint by hand, no matter how good the painting is, there can be photos that are clearer and more straightforward...

But he had nowhere to say it.

At present, archaeologists in China, or all over the world, are still drawing drawings by hand.

However, by the next day, he had no intention of continuing to complain.

Because during the cleaning of the tomb, some cultural relics were finally found!