As to why there is such a hole in the tomb door that was destroyed by tomb thieves, archaeologists obviously have no way to find the answer.

Unless the grave robber who made this hole in the first place comes back to life.

After this topic was skipped, everyone moved on to a more important topic.

"How do you get into the burial chamber?"

"Do you want to enter through the tomb gate?"

In general, in tombs that resemble underground palaces.

For example, some of the princes' tombs in the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, some well-preserved stone brick tombs, in the case of the tomb door is still there, archaeologists will also directly enter the tomb from the tomb door to excavate and clean up the tomb with the primary purpose of not destroying the tomb.

The most famous is Guo Moruo's excavation of Dingling.

When they were going to excavate Dingling, at first Guo Moruo and Wu Han decided to find the tomb first, then enter from the tomb, open the tomb door and enter the main tomb.

The plan is well planned.

But in the first step, there was a setback.

Although there are pieces of ground sacrificial buildings in Dingling, it is really difficult to find where this tomb is.

Guo Moruo led people to search for several months, and excavated a number of places suspected of "Dinglingkou", but no tomb was found.

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Almost, Guo Moruo decided not to look for the tomb at all, and directly excavated violently from top to bottom, and directly demolished the ground.

Fortunately, just before this decision was made, the tomb crossing was found.

Otherwise, now Dingling not to mention that there are ground buildings, I'm afraid that even the underground palace has to be visited, and it will all have to be razed to the flat ground of more than ten meters.

However, after finding the tomb, the excavation team led by Guo Moruo and Wu Han did not cause much damage when they entered Dingling.

Although, many precious cultural relics, after encountering the air, quickly oxidized and disappeared, resulting in heavy losses of cultural relics.

But the entire underground palace is well preserved, which can be visited by future generations to see how the emperor's mausoleum was built in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The same is true of the tomb of the King of Nanyue that Chen Han participated in the excavation last time.

It is mainly to enter the underground palace for excavation, without destroying the overall architecture of the underground palace, so that after the excavation is completed, the underground palace can be made into a museum for tourists to visit.

However, this time, the situation of the new Xuewei No. 1 tomb is different.

The tomb door of this new Xuewei No. 1 tomb is too small.

It can only accommodate one person bending over to go back and forth.

If you want to carry and transfer the burial goods inside, it will be very troublesome to carry out through such a tomb door, and even many burial goods may not be able to be taken out.

Speaking of this topic.

Li Chunchao is confident.

"We've looked at it before."

"The burial chamber consists of the main chamber and four side chambers: North 1, North 2, South 1, and South 2."

"Judging from the above survey, the tombs are all wood and stone structures, and the plan is rectangular."

"The top of the tomb is paved with north-south wood, and the four walls are all stone, and there are square logs sandwiched between the stone layers."

"The northern, southern, and western sides of the burial chamber and between the burial mounds are a mixture of adobe and gravel masonry."

"The main room is separated from the side room and the adjacent side room by adobe and rubble walls, and the main room is connected by a passage between the side room."

"To put it simply, each chamber is connected to the main chamber, and the top of the chamber is all made of canopy."

"We don't need to go through the tomb door, we just need to remove the canopy wood above each tomb, and then work directly like excavating a pit tomb!"

Understand!

Kong Jianwen nodded.

He's familiar with this operation!

Just like excavating most of the tombs of the pre-Qin period, dig directly from top to bottom, and then dig to the top cover, lift the cover, and go directly into the tomb, and you can start work!

In this regard, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is definitely professional enough.

"Okay, let's do it!"

This tomb is not deep, from the surface to the wooden roof of the burial chamber, it is only about two or three meters.

The depth of the burial chamber, judging by the height of the corridor and the wall, is about 2 meters to 2.26 meters.

This is a relatively easy tomb to dig.

Thanks to the fact that this is a tomb of the Tuyuhun tribe, not a Han tomb.

Therefore, even the nobles of the Tuyuhun tribe, and even the royal family, they do not have the habit of being like the nobles of the Central Plains, and they often dig more than ten meters deep into the ground.

Well, maybe it doesn't have anything to do with that technology.

If you want to dig a hollow tomb of one or two hundred square meters at a depth of more than ten meters underground, this is a technical job.

How to ensure that the soil layer more than ten meters thick above can not collapse?

This is an extremely challenging matter for site selection.

This is also why the ancients valued the "treasure land of feng shui", on the one hand, it really has the addition of metaphysics.

On the one hand, it is also necessary to pay attention to the terrain.

Some terrain, if you dig more than ten meters, it will definitely collapse.

However, some terrain can be safely and undisturbed because of the load-bearing rock layer in the middle.

It's not like you can dig down a dozen or twenty meters casually anywhere to build a tomb.

Like Zhao Hu's tomb of the monarch of Nanyue, the reason why it can be dug so deep is because half of his tomb is built in rock layers.

After digging a rock layer nearly 20 meters deep underground, he carved a burial chamber into it and used a large number of stones.

According to statistics, the entire tomb of the monarch of Nanyue used more than 700 two-meter-long boulders to make walls, load-bearing, and roofs, so as to avoid the danger of collapse and be so strong for 2,000 years.

Even so, half of the area of the Nanyue National Tomb is directly used as a rock layer as a load-bearing.

For the Chinese people, this is the construction experience accumulated in thousands of years.

In the world, only the tombs of ancient Chinese nobles can be buried so deeply.

The emperor-level mausoleums are all in the soil layer of 15-20 meters, and sometimes they even go deep to more than 20 meters!

This is the experience summed up from generation to generation by generations of people who have specialized in digging mausoleums!

That is, these talents who can build the emperor's mausoleum have basically disappeared by now, and the technology has long been lost.

But even if there is technology, it is useless in modern times.

Now it's all cremation.

No matter how prominent and awesome his status was during his lifetime.

After death, only that little box is the eternal home.

At most, you can only choose which cemetery to be buried in after death.

It's up to the sky, even if you are so awesome, you can be buried in Babaoshan Cemetery, and the cemetery is only a few square meters.

And it doesn't dig a meter down.

This technique of building an underground palace more than ten meters underground has lost its meaning in modern times.

"Why, do you want to clean the main burial chamber first?"

"That's a must!"

Professor Ke smiled similarly to Li Chunchao.

A burial chamber must be the most important thing in the main burial chamber!

Li Chunchao coughed dryly, and pretended to be serious: "Considering that this tomb has been seriously excavated and more than 700 cultural relics have been stolen, the main tomb is definitely the hardest hit area. ”

"So let's dig out the main burial chamber first!"

"Everybody's moving!"