"Found the tomb door?"

As soon as they heard that the tomb door had been found, the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences and others, who were cleaning the tomb on the east side, were all in good spirits.

What kind of tomb door is this cleaning!

Hurry up and join in the fun!

Under the leadership of Professor Ke, the group rushed to the cemetery.

Following the passage dug under the Qinghai Archaeological Institute, everyone soon came to a photographic wall.

The "Shine Wall" is a curved wall between the tomb passage and the tomb.

This wall is high in the east and low in the west, and it is a wall that encloses the tomb road and Yongdao from the earth-sealing walls on both sides of the tomb road to the west.

To put it simply, it is a wall derived from the left and right ends of the tomb door, next to the tomb road, and its function is to support and fix, and it is estimated that it also has a somewhat beautiful effect.

And in the middle of the wall, there is the corridor and the tomb gate.

The corridor is connected to the tomb passage, which is the passage into the main burial chamber, which is also high in the east and low in the west.

The north and south walls of the road are all stone blocks, and the wall is shared, there is a wood between the stone layers, and there are two layers of platforms and three layers of platforms on the two walls, with a total height of 2.26 meters.

The top of the road is a wood and stone structure, that is, a layer of gravel is laid in the middle of the two layers of shed wood, which is very strong and not easy to collapse.

"This tomb uses a lot of shed wood to make the roof, and this aspect is actually somewhat similar to the nine-story demon tower." Chen Han said curiously.

The so-called shed wood is actually a "round plank" built up in a row of logs, which is relatively rare in the tombs of the Central Plains.

The tombs in the Central Plains are either like the kind of pit earth pit wood, and the walls in the tomb may be made of stone, or they may simply maintain the original appearance of the soil.

It's just that when the capping is done, a row of top cover plates is used to cover the burial chamber and then backfill.

Or, later, more advanced tombs, built of stone or brick, made like an underground palace.

Only in the main burial chamber, cypress wood will be used to make the "yellow intestine inscription".

However, the shape of the yellow intestine is different from this kind of directly using wood to build a shed and make a supporting structure.

The yellow intestine inscription is more decorative, stuffing the main burial chamber with cypress wood and wrapping the main coffin in the center, which is a "noble" burial system rather than a material for building a tomb.

Most of the wood in this tomb is used to build a tomb.

The roofs of the pits of the sacrificial pits were made of wood.

The top of this corridor is also a layer of shed wood for the roof, then a layer of gravel, and then a layer of shed wood.

This has the feeling of a "nine-story demon tower".

The nine-story demon tower is a tower built layer by layer with cypress wood, and it is also made of wood as the main material for building tombs.

It's just that the tombs built on the come out are a little special.

"It seems that although the Tuyuhun people have given up the burial system of the nine-story demon tower, they have not completely abandoned the tradition, and when building tombs, they will also use a large amount of wood as raw materials."

Professor Ke nodded in agreement.

"Coming?" Li Chunchao, deputy director of the Qinghai Institute of Archaeology, greeted them warmly and walked towards the tomb gate.

As he walked, he also introduced: "The tomb gate is located in the middle of the corridor, and consists of a door frame and a panel door that are close to the two walls of the corridor. ”

"The door frame is composed of two sets of square wooden columns on the north and south sides, which are juxtaposed side by side."

"To put it simply, this tomb door is made of planks and logs."

"And the tomb door is not big, the height is only more than one meter, and the width is only seventy or eighty centimeters."

"Even if it's an adult, it's very inconvenient, and you have to bend down to get in."

"I estimate that this tomb gate should be built inside the tomb chamber and everything else, and the coffin will be put in before it is finally repaired."

"This has the advantage of preventing tomb robbers from stealing the coffin of the tomb owner."

"However, tomb robbers have never been interested in the coffin of the tomb owner, only in the burial goods inside."

"And they generally don't go through the main entrance, and directly hit a thief hole into the main burial chamber."

"This anti-theft method can only be said to be better than nothing."

Led a group of people to the tomb gate, Li Chunchao pointed to a hole in the tomb door and said, "But there are also tomb robbers who go through the main gate." ”

"Due to theft, some of the wooden planks on the upper part of the board door have been damaged, and some of the wooden planks in the middle have rotted."

"The original bubble nail decoration on the board door, and the iron bubble nail cap with serious rust was found at the bottom of the road."

"It should have been a group of tomb robbers who entered through the corridor and destroyed the upper part of the tomb door, but why they destroyed the upper part of the tomb door is a little difficult to understand."

"You said you wanted to go inside, it's obviously more convenient to destroy the bottom."

"And this tomb door is made of wooden planks, riveted and fixed with iron nails, as long as the iron nails are riveted, the planks can be removed."

"There's no need to destroy it like this, if you destroy the upper part, could it be that the tomb robbers jumped into it through this hole?"

"But this hole is so small, it doesn't seem to be able to accommodate adults in and out."

Li Chunchao touched his chin, very speechless.

Many robbery holes have been found in this tomb, and there are seven or eight robbery holes from the tomb passage all the way to the top of the main burial chamber.

At the level of a tomb robber, why go through the main entrance, and even if you go through the main entrance, why just make a hole in the upper left side of the door?

"Perhaps, this cave was used to transport burial goods?"

Kong Jianwen compared the size of the hole and said uncertainly: "A tomb robber entered the tomb through the hole, and another tomb robber entered through the tunnel and waited outside the tomb door. ”

"When the tomb robbers who entered have finished searching for the burial goods, they will pass the valuable gold and silver objects through this hole in the tomb door?"

"Then the tomb robbers inside return the same way from the cave, and the tomb robbers outside return the same way from the cave on the road?"

"Why bother?" Li Chunchao said puzzled.

"Because among the tomb robbers, they are also afraid of the black and the black!" Kong Jianwen spread his hands: "You see, in ancient times, those who engaged in tomb robbery were either fellow villagers, or simply father and son." ”

"Even so, black eating black is not uncommon, and we have found the bones of tomb robbers in many of the stolen tombs."

"The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty"

"In order to prevent this kind of black eating black behavior, whether it is the one who goes down to the tomb or stays behind, it must be guarded against."

"In this way, it is safest for two people to use this method of splitting up the tomb robbers."

"Both men went down to the tomb, but one was in the burial chamber and the other was outside the burial chamber."

"After the people inside have searched for the treasure, they hand it out to the people outside for confirmation."

"Then both of them have to get back to the surface from different caves, and the time is almost the same."

"This avoids the possibility of anyone trying to kill the other in the tomb and enjoy the treasure for themselves!"

Li Chunchao was still puzzled: "Then there is no one to pull the rope on it, how can these two people climb up from the thief hole?" ”

The so-called black eats black, usually the tomb robbers who go down to the tomb, after sending the burial goods up from the robbery hole, the tomb robbers who respond to the top directly loosen the rope, and then backfill the soil, and quickly bury the one below that has not come up to the ground.

"You are stupid, this tomb is not deep, from the ground building down to the burial chamber, it is only two or three meters deep!"

"This depth, at the level after the Tang and Song dynasties, can't you just make a ladder!"

"If you have a ladder, you can't do it by one person, you don't need two people?" Li Chunchao continued to ask.

This time, Kong Jianwen was speechless.

“... Maybe there is something that two people have to work together to do, or maybe two people have a very good relationship and are brothers. ”

"Anyway, I'm just proposing a possibility!"