The discovery that it was the Lady's Tomb that had been stolen, rather than the main one, was naturally a pleasant surprise.

However, with the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in charge of the exploration of the main tomb M1, the situation is somewhat worrying.

Chen Han found a number of robbery holes at the top of the sealed soil.

These caves are not the ones left by the modern era, but the ancient ones.

Judging from the appearance alone, there are no traces of the robbery hole, and it has long been backfilled.

However, through the soil exploration of the Luoyang shovel, it can be found that the filling and sealing soil of these robbery holes are not the same soil layer, that is, the backfilled soil.

In this way, it can be ascertained that the main tomb has been visited by tomb robbers in the past, and more than once.

This seems to be the normal situation.

It is said that the Han tomb has ten rooms and nine emptiness.

Why is this claimed?

It is because the tombs of the Han Dynasty like to leave a large amount of sealed soil.

The thing that seals the soil is just a mound of earth.

If you go to Shaanxi, you will find that you can see lonely mounds everywhere, or two or two, standing on the plain.

Very eye-catching!

And these mounds are the fiefdoms of the nobles of the Han Dynasty.

Each mound represents at least one Han Dynasty nobleman above the level of Guannei Marquis buried underneath.

It is precisely because of such eye-catching features of the Han tomb.

Tomb robbers don't need any compass, any tomb robbing formulas, and historical documents to assist.

You just need to find these seals specifically.

Each tall enclosure represents a Han tomb.

Therefore, the Han tomb will leave the sentence of ten rooms and nine emptiness.

The same is true of this Dundunshan Han tomb group.

Tomb M2 has been newly stolen, and it may not even be the first time it has been stolen.

This M2 main tomb has been robbed many times in ancient times.

The Nanchang Archaeological Institute, which is responsible for the exploration of tomb M2, also soon found traces of many robbery holes on the sealed soil.

The time span of these robberies is as long as 1,000 years.

In other words, these two tombs have been stolen and excavated many times over a thousand years.

This made the archaeological team, which had recovered a little bit of joy, depressed again.

The dark clouds of the ten chambers and nine empty rooms of the Han tomb once again covered their heads.

However, there is no way to do it if it is stolen.

And it was stolen thousands of years ago, and even the tomb robber gang has nowhere to pursue it.

You have to keep doing what you have to do.

Now that it is certain that the main tomb of M1 was also stolen.

Of course, the archaeological team chose to rescue and excavate Tomb M1 first, that is, the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding.

Quite simply, this tomb is even more heavyweight.

Moreover, everyone has already entered the main burial chamber of Tomb M2, and it is clean, and important cultural relics have been stolen.

So it's still tomb M1, which is more critical.

After several meetings in a row, the three archaeological institutes unanimously decided to officially start the excavation of the main tomb M1.

At this time, it was already half a year after Chen Han arrived in Nanchang.

"The sealed soil of tomb M1 is about seven meters high, in the shape of a covered bucket, and M2 is built on the top of Dundun Mountain, side by side with east and west, and belongs to the same tomb and different caves."

"There is a large square rammed earth base under the sealed soil, with a total of two layers, of which the lower base is shared with the M2 tomb."

"This shows that the two tombs were built together."

Tomb M1 sits on the north and faces south, and the plane presents a "A" shape, which is the standard Han Dynasty tomb style. ”

"At present, the entrance of the tomb has been determined, with a length of 17.2 meters from north to south, a width of about 17.7 meters from east to west, and a depth of about 8 meters."

"The location of the tomb road has also been determined, the tomb road is 15.65-16.17 meters long from north to south, and 5.92-7.22 meters wide from east to west."

"The actual total area of this tomb should be about 400 square meters."

A series of data obtained through archaeological exploration are circulated in the hands of everyone.

I have to say that the Luoyang shovel is really easy to use.

No wonder it has become a designated tool for archaeology and tomb robbing.

Even in the case of the emergence of various modern scientific and technological archaeological equipment, the Luoyang shovel is still a must-have for archaeologists and must learn.

Just used the Luoyang shovel to dig a bunch of caverns on Dundun Mountain, and without formal excavation, the key information such as the internal size of the entire tomb and the tomb road has already been mastered.

It's no wonder that tomb robbers have been rampant since ancient times.

After learning how to use the Luoyang shovel, it is really not difficult to find the location of the tomb, it is just a matter of effort.

"Dig and dig!"

Zhuang Yunpeng was very energetic and raised his shovel and cheered loudly.

After half a year of caving in Dundun Mountain, this time it is finally possible to officially start digging the tomb and enter the tomb for archaeological excavation.

The mood of every archaeologist is relatively uplifted.

Because it was approaching autumn and winter, before the official excavation, everyone spent two days to build a protective shed above the tomb.

After that, more than 20 archaeologists, plus more than 100 villagers invited from nearby villages, officially began the excavation of the tomb.

The tomb of this curtain is not short at all, it is 16 meters long, and the width is 5 to 7 meters.

To put it bluntly, this is the tomb that Chen Han dug up, which cannot be regarded as the longest tomb, but it is definitely the widest.

From the width of the tomb road, it can also be seen that this tomb is definitely not simple.

It is seven meters wide at its widest point and nearly six meters at its narrowest point.

What does this mean?

It shows that there may be large burial objects with a width of more than five meters that need to be buried before such a wide tomb is dug!

Of course, after thinking about it for a while, Chen Han also thought of what kind of burial goods it was.

Carriages and horses!

And it's a real car that can be driven and used!

Maybe it's the car that the Marquis of Hailun used to use before his death!

Moreover, it was not buried in the form of chariot and horse parts, but a whole car was directly "driven" into the burial chamber, so that such a wide grave road would be dug!

Of course, this is just a guess by Chen Han.

Perhaps, the tomb is so wide only because the coffin of the tomb owner is to be transported, and there may be no other reason.

As a liege, the coffin was at least a five-fold coffin.

Five-fold coffins, generally speaking, can be about five meters wide.

The coffin of Zhao Hu, the king of Nanyue, was a special case.

Like the tombs of princes or princes excavated in the Central Plains, whether it is the famous Mrs. Xin Chai (she is the lady of the liehous), or the younger brothers of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The entire width of their coffins is more than five meters, reaching about five meters one or five meters two.

For such a coffin, it is necessary to dig a tomb with a width of about six meters before the coffin can be transported in.

"I don't know if there will be a yellow intestine problem." Lin Ya, who was digging the tomb, said with some expectation.

"Unlikely." Chen Han shook his head: "The yellow intestine inscription was a funeral specification that could only be enjoyed by emperors and queens in the Han Dynasty. ”

"Although it is said that judging from the current archaeological excavations of the Han tombs, the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty generally used the yellow intestine inscription, and even Liu Xu, the king of Guangling, and his queen who committed suicide on suspicion of rebellion."

"But at the level of the liehou, then you definitely can't use the yellow intestine question."

"Even if the owner of this tomb is Liu He, the first Marquis of Haidu, even if he used to be a prince and king, but his identity when he died was only the Marquis of Haidu, then it is impossible to use the yellow intestine inscription."

"I can look forward to it, will there be a real carriage and horse burial pit!"

"In the area south of the Yangtze River, there has not been a real chariot and horse burial pit of the Han Dynasty!"

"Judging from the life experience of Marquis Haidu, who once served as a prince and a king, and briefly served as an emperor, he definitely has that noble status to accompany the burial of the real carriage and horse pit."

"Anyway, there are no hard and fast rules in the funeral carriage pit in the Han Dynasty!"