A wordless tablet made Chen Han speechless.

"What's going on?"

After muttering, Chen Han moved his gaze down and looked at the messy altar.

The main burial chamber, which was visited by tomb robbers, was obviously not in order.

Originally, I didn't know what the offerings were on the altar.

On the altar, however, there are a lot of knick-knacks.

"Brass vessels, saddle front axle gold ornaments, gilded wooden panels, gilt copper bubble nail boxboards, gilt silver lacquered plates, iron arrowheads, crystals, conch and small gold and silver ornaments......"

After Chen Han stretched out his hand and pulled off the ashes on the altar, he saw these things scattered on the altar.

Obviously, although these things are placed on the altar, they will definitely not be sacrifices.

Whose family sacrifices with bubble nail box boards, iron arrowheads, conchs, gold and silver ornaments to sacrifice?

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the sacrifices used for sacrifice were generally three animals + gold.

The gold here is not gold jewelry, but a simple and crude piece of gold cake, which is called 酎 (zhòu) gold.

That is, the tribute money that the princes of the Han Dynasty gave to the court for sacrifice.

It is a high-quality sake that is repeatedly brewed with three additional ingredients from January to August.

Make wine on the first day of the first month, become in August, and drink in the name of alcohol.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty stipulated that every August in the capital Chang'an, when the Gaozu Temple was sacrificed, the princes and princes should offer gold to help the sacrifice according to the population of the feudal country

That is, the system of the "Golden Rule".

In fact, this law is not only to allow the princes and princes to sacrifice gold to their ancestors, but also a way to effectively control the assets of the princes and princes.

You can't let this group of nobles have too much money in their hands.

Otherwise, they are too rich, and the central government will worry that they will make weapons without permission and enter the customs to do the work of the emperor.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once deposed more than 100 marquis titles in one go on the grounds that the purity of the gold was insufficient!

This is still a good excuse to strike at the nobles of the princes!

After the Han Dynasty, the custom of using gold sacrifices gradually disappeared and was replaced by thin sacrifices.

That is, just use some meat, fruit or something to sacrifice, there is no need to engage in valuables.

But no matter how you sacrifice, you will definitely not take these jewelry, crystals, conchs, or even iron arrowheads...

Obviously, these items should have been placed in the coffin, or somewhere else in the main burial chamber.

Then, after the tomb robbers entered, because the altar was naturally suitable for placing objects, they used the altar as a table when cleaning up and choosing which burial goods to steal.

Some of the things in the tomb and even in the coffin were placed on the altar and left behind.

These things are not very valuable knick-knacks.

Some are gilded boxes, some are conchs, small jewelry, etc., so they are abandoned and left to archaeologists.

However, not everything on the altar is not an offering.

Chen Han found uncharred grape seeds in a gold-pasted lacquer plate!

This shows that this gilded lacquer plate was originally placed on the altar to hold sacrifices.

And the sacrifice was a bunch of grapes!

Grapes were first spread in the Western Regions, since the Western Han Dynasty Zhang Qian hollowed out the Western Regions, the introduction of Dawan grape varieties, the scope of grape cultivation in the Central Plains began to expand.

By the Tang Dynasty, grapes had become a very common fruit, and they were also used in large quantities to make wine.

Grape wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa immediately urge.

Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people came back to fight in ancient times?

In Wang Han's "Liangzhou Ci", grape wine was recorded.

And Liangzhou is Wuwei, Gansu, and Qinghai is next door.

It is normal for the Tuyuhun people to have grapes.

The climate in the northwest is also good for grape growing.

"This grape seed hasn't been carbonized yet!" Chen Han cherished the grape seeds in the gold-pasted lacquer plate, put them in a plastic sealed bag, and trotted and handed them to Kong Jianwen.

"Teacher, this is a grape from the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago, and it hasn't been carbonized yet!"

"If you use DNA testing, you can detect the genes of grapes from 1,000 years ago!"

"It's a strange thing."

Kong Jianwen took the grape seed and nodded solemnly: "This is a good thing, contact the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences when I turn around and ask them to send someone to pick it up." ”

"Grape seeds without carbonization are very valuable for research, and it is even possible to reproduce the grapes that the Tang people ate thousands of years ago!"

Kong Jianwen just wanted to praise Chen Han a few words.

Lin Ya, who was squatting in the northwest corner of the main tomb, suddenly shouted loudly: "Come and see!" Human bones have been found! ”

The heads of all the people in the tomb turned to her in unison.

I saw her holding a shin bone in her hand and smiling excitedly.

Good guys, this scene is a little scary.

Luckily it's daytime and the sun is shining.

If you see a girl holding a shin bone in her hand at night, she waves at herself excitedly.

It is estimated that the legs can be frightened and weak.

Lin Ya's mentor, Professor Li, couldn't look at it, and hurriedly shouted: "Xiaoya, that's an important bone artifact, don't move around!" ”

Everyone stepped forward to see what was going on.

It turned out that in the northwest corner of the main burial chamber, there were some human bones scattered together, which were quite badly damaged, and it could be seen at a glance that the bones were incomplete.

And the posture is not the kind of burial posture, but the bones are piled up in a corner.

"Tomb robbers, they are still really bold."

"Let me go into the main burial chamber at night and get out the human bones lying in the coffin, I don't dare to do it."

A young researcher from the Qinghai Institute of Archaeology was very emotional.

Although it is said that those who do archaeology are atheists, they are not feudal and superstitious.

But this kind of fiddling with human bones on a big night, they are indeed a little panicked.

It's fine in a research lab or something.

In this way, directly in the dark main burial chamber underground, the remains of the tomb owner were moved, which was indeed a test of courage.

As for why it is not considered to be done during the day.

How can a tomb robber rob a tomb during the day?

Except for the official tomb robbery of the ancient army, the ancestor did not dare to be so arrogant!

"Check it out to see the sex and human bone condition of the owner of the tomb."

Several archaeologists who have studied the identification of human bones squatted down and began to sort out these bones.

Soon, the pile of human bones was split into two parts.

Obviously, this is not one human skeleton, but two.

"It was preliminarily determined that there should be two skeletons, a man and a woman, which were somewhat seriously damaged, and it was no longer possible to piece together a complete skeleton."

Listening to the explanations of several researchers, Chen Han touched his chin and said affirmatively: "Then this tomb should be a joint tomb of husband and wife." ”

"On the side of the altar, I found some gold and silver jewelry, and at first glance it was a hairpin worn by a woman on her head."

"But at the same time, there are also items that are found to accompany male burials, such as iron arrowheads."

"It looks like this is the joint burial tomb of a Tuyuhun aristocratic couple!"