After entering through the gap in the tomb door, Chen Han and Professor Li came to a narrow rectangular space.

This Frontroom isn't that big.

The bright flashlight that the two of them carried could completely illuminate the entire enclosed front room.

As soon as he entered, Professor Li subconsciously looked up at the ceiling.

The roof of the frontrooms was covered by a single stone slab, but the cover had broken off, two cross-shaped cracks splitting the cover into four.

And two of them are estimated to be ten centimeters out of place, which looks crumbling, and the gravel has the possibility of collapsing, which is very dangerous.

Professor Li said with a serious and nervous expression:

"This frontroom must be supported immediately to support the top stone slabs, otherwise we will not be able to carry out safe excavations in the future."

"Xiao Chen, measure the size of the front room."

Chen Han, who was standing aside and doing a protective form, hurriedly took out a tape measure from his pocket, carefully paced around the front room, and began to measure the length and width.

This tomb of the Nanyue king, not only the cap and tomb door are made of large stone slabs, including the wall support inside, but also the stone slabs are used for support.

It's just a stone tomb.

Compared with the pit tombs he participated in excavating before, they are indeed much more upscale.

The length and width of each stone slab are at least two meters or more, and the thickness is not visible for the time being, but it must not be thin, otherwise it will not be able to support the filling and extrusion of these twenty meters.

"The front room is 3.1 meters long from north to south, 1.84 meters wide from east to west, and the height is at least more than two meters high!"

"The tomb door we entered was located on the south side, and on the north side was the stone door of the main coffin chamber, which was connected to the east and west transepts on the left and right sides."

"This is a typical north-facing tomb."

As early as the primitive society, the Chinese ancestors built village houses in the direction of sitting north and facing south.

The palace was also built in the center of the central axis of the tribal capital, and the palace group in the north and south had to be symmetrical.

That is, the architectural form of the Forbidden City, which can be traced back to the primitive tribes of ancient times.

And from ancient times to modern times, basically this architectural style has not been broken and has been passed down.

Even now, when modern people buy a house, the house type that faces north and south and is transparent from north to south is also the most popular and the most expensive.

The Nanyue Kingdom, although it was a Baiyue country during the Western Han Dynasty, was considered a barbarian country.

However, the upper ruling class came from the Qin State, and naturally it also respected the cultural etiquette system of Zhuxia.

The Yin Mansion of the King of Nanyue is also located in the south and facing north, with a symmetrical layout on the left and right.

"We have to clean up the front room before we can make room for the next step of cleaning up the two ear rooms."

While Chen Han was measuring the size of the antechamber, Professor Li was also constantly looking at the situation in the anterior chamber.

The floor of the front room was covered with a fairly thick layer of soil.

It may be due to the relationship between the fracture of the door shaft and the pressure of the earth and rock in the tomb tunnel.

The two tomb doors were ajar, the west one sloping inward, and the east one leaning slightly inward.

So the outside backfill can flow in through the open gap.

The soil near the tomb entrance is half the size of the tomb door, and is unloaded into the chamber in a slope shape, and the further indoors it goes, the lower the soil layer becomes.

It also goes deep into the north of the room, and there are some relatively large burial goods, which are not buried by the soil and are exposed.

As soon as the flashlight shines, you can distinguish that there are ritual utensils such as copper tripods and copper guis.

"According to the previous exploration of colleagues from the Guangzhou Institute of Archaeology, there were no obvious traces of cave theft, and there was no trace of secondary backfilling in the tomb filling."

"The condition in the front room is also very intact, and there is no sign of theft."

"It's rare, it's very rare!"

Professor Li lifted his glasses, very excited.

As of 2018, none of the tombs of the Western Han emperors have been excavated and are properly protected by the Cultural Relics Bureau.

Among the more than 40 tombs of princes and kings that have been excavated, only the tomb of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, Mancheng, Hebei, and the tomb of King Jibei of Shandong have not been stolen.

However, when the Mancheng Han Tomb was discovered, there were traces that the burial goods had been moved, and the suspicion of theft could not be completely ruled out, and it was possible that it had been disturbed by theft.

Now this tomb of the king of Nanyue may be the only two remaining tombs of the princes and kings of the Western Han Dynasty that have not been stolen and excavated!

Yes, the king of Nanyue is also the prince of the Western Han Dynasty!

accepted the canonization of the central dynasty, and the successive heirs were in Chang'an as protons, which obviously meant to submit to the central government.

Just when Professor Li and Chen Han were busy observing and recording the situation in the front room, an anxious voice came from the tomb door.

"Deceived Kangxi"

"Lao Li, Xiao Chen, how is the situation inside?"

"Are you all right?"

This voice is Kong Jianwen's as soon as I hear it.

Professor Li hurriedly responded: "It's okay, it's just that the stone slab on the top of the head is a bit cracked, and everything else is fine!" ”

The slate is cracked, is this called okay?

The other archaeologists, who were only separated from Professor Li, were dumbfounded.

Kong Jianwen shouted even more anxiously: "Lao Li, come out quickly!" ”

"Let's go in when the support is ready!"

"Come out first and discuss the risk prevention measures!"

Shriveled and slammed his mouth, Professor Li glanced around, and went back like this, a little too anxious.

He took his flashlight and shone it through the stone door to the north that led to the main burial chamber.

"Hey, there's a stone wall painting!"

Chen Han, who was measuring the size in the corner of the wall, immediately hit the flashlight on the stone wall next to him, and also illuminated a painting.

They hurriedly looked around with flashlights.

Only then did I find that on the perimeter wall, the roof of the room, and the two stone doors in the north and south, there were moire patterns painted with vermilion and ink as decoration.

The Han Dynasty was the peak period of murals.

In recent decades, a large number of Han Dynasty murals have been found in tombs all over China, and the themes are extremely rich.

Compared with the exquisite murals unearthed in other regions, the painted murals in the tomb of the Nanyue King do not seem so "high-end", just some cloud patterns composed of vermilion and ink.

This moire pattern also shows a typical Western Han style and color.

The use of vermilion and ink is the same as the aesthetic atmosphere of the Western Han Dynasty at that time.

Just like those Western Han lacquerware, most of them are painted in red and black.

After admiring the murals, Chen Han said with some sighs: "Compared with the murals of the tomb of Bu Qianqiu in a later period, the murals of the tomb of the king of Nanyue are still too simple. ”

The mural of Bu Qianqiu's tomb can be said to be the most well-known mural of the tomb of the Western Han Dynasty.

There are murals painted on the upper forehead, the top ridge, and the middle of the gable on the back wall inside the door of this tomb.

It is painted with the images of the fairy prince Qiao, Nuwa, Xianweng, fairy, Fuxi, and Fang Xiang.

There are also colorful clouds, moons, suns, double dragons, owls, red birds, white tigers, yellow snakes, toads, rabbits and tomb owners ascending to immortals by phoenix.

A large number of murals in the tomb are not only rich in content, including the sun, moon and stars, as well as people, flowers and birds.

And after years, it is still colorful and lifelike.

In particular, the figure murals are in a variety of forms, some are kind and pleasant, some have hideous faces, and some are grief-stricken, which can be called a unique mural in the Western Han Dynasty.

Similarly, it also shows that in the Western Han Dynasty, the art of painting has reached a very high level.

And this Bu Qianqiu tomb is roughly dated in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, which should be decades later than the tomb of the king of Nanyue.

It's a pity that the tomb of the Nanyue King doesn't have such exquisite murals, just some moire diagrams.

But the four walls of the stone chamber and behind the door are also considered to be large.

"Okay, the situation in the front room is almost investigated, let's go back and report, hurry up and make the risk prevention plan, and we can start the cleaning of the front room as soon as possible!"