Chapter 232: Whole box extraction
"Hey, it's still a three-horse float, a high-end car!"
Chen Han and several other colleagues were squatting in the west carriage and carriage, cleaning up the puppet cars in the carriage and carriage.
Although, the preservation of these cars is very good, and even the paint on the cars is still colored.
But after all, more than two thousand years have passed.
The wooden body had collapsed and was covered with a lot of silt.
It is also these silt that protect the puppet car very well.
As front-line archaeological workers, don't expect to be able to repair these puppet cars.
Now what Chen Han and the others have to do is to clean up the silt, and then put these deformed and collapsed puppet cars into the low-oxygen equipment and transport them to the cultural preservation center.
Now there are hundreds of professional cultural relics restoration workers, who are waiting for the cultural relics unearthed in the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, to carry out the restoration of cultural relics.
Chen Han doesn't have to worry about these things.
In the tomb of the Marquis of Haidu, there are no mysterious mechanisms as rumored and imagined by the outside world.
Yes, the news about the discovery of the tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang in Nanchang has been boiling on the Internet.
As a "national brand" of the big archaeological project, both official and private media are very concerned.
2k
Liu Heqi, Marquis of Haiding, can be said to be little known before the tomb was discovered.
But when this high-level tomb suspected to be Liu He's tomb was discovered in Nanchang, this "mediocre monarch" who lived two thousand years ago, once served as an emperor, and almost replaced Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, immediately became famous in China.
Liu He's life introduction has many marketing accounts on the Internet.
Of course, no matter how you interpret it, all marketing accounts have the same conclusion about this tomb.
That is, there are definitely a lot of treasures in this tomb!
After all, this is the burial of a man who has been an emperor after his death!
Moreover, many marketing accounts also take the divergence of various tomb robbery themes as an example.
It is said that there may be boulders, quicksand, mercury, anti-theft mechanisms, curses and the like in the tomb.
Anyway, it's just how to write how to have a gimmick, but it attracts netizens to watch it very exciting.
But in reality, there is nothing mysterious about this ancient tomb.
In reality, it's rare for an ancient tomb to actually have those legendary traps.
There are no hidden arrows, poisons, traps, etc.
On the one hand, it is because, in ancient times, the tombs of princes and generals would have been arranged with corresponding tomb keepers.
There were even some grave keepers, who later evolved into grave guard villages, which still exist until modern times.
For example, the Taojia Village in front of the Zijin City next door is estimated to be the village established for the tomb keeper of the Marquis of Haidu.
Their village has always had a legend of the "King's Tomb".
Maybe it was the ancestor of Taojia Village back then, who was responsible for guarding the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding.
On the other hand, even if you make a trap in the ancient tomb, it won't do much of a difference.
The ancients were not fools.
They know that any wooden, iron, or bronze mechanism will lose its usefulness once it falls into disrepair.
And a tomb is at least calculated in thousands of years.
How could there be an ancient craftsman who was stupid enough to think that by making a little mechanism in an ancient tomb, he would be able to prevent theft for a thousand years?
They also know very well that this kind of mechanism is just for psychological comfort, and it can be prevented for four or five years.
Does it make sense for a prince to prevent theft for four or five years?
Before the fall of any dynasty, someone dared to steal the tombs of the princes of this generation?
If you dare to do this, let alone the Nine Clans, even the eggs under the mother machine at home have to be shaken!
Therefore, in the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, there is actually no anti-theft means.
It was easy for everyone to enter the corridor.
After entering the tomb, the archaeological team members immediately understood why the tomb was so well preserved.
Again, this is the result of luck.
First of all, the craftsmen who built this tomb themselves did a good job of protecting it.
Like Mr. Sui's tomb, the sealed soil on this tomb also has three layers of covering, a layer of white plaster, a layer of sand, and a layer of carbon.
These three layers of sealed soil are well isolated from the entry of oxygen.
In particular, carbon and white plaster, one is oxygen-absorbing, and the other is very delicate in texture, which can well block air from entering.
But that's not enough.
What's more important is the right time and place.
After the burial of the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, with the change of time, the water table rose, and the surface runoff passed through the ancient tomb, and the water flow was stable, and the ancient tomb in place provided a very good maintenance condition.
And then there was the unexpected earthquake.
Because of the earthquake, it sank directly into Poyang Lake.
A large amount of sediment and lake water poured into the tomb.
In the corridor and the east and west carriage garages, there are traces of a large amount of silt accumulation on these puppet cars.
And all this silt was washed from Poyang Lake.
And even now, the silt is still wet, a bit like the bottom of the lotus pond.
This humid and watery environment is very beneficial for the preservation of wood products and lacquerware.
This is also the reason why the three-horse double-wheel float in the carriage and carriage can still retain the paint color.
After removing some of the mud covering the body, the black and red paint on the body can still exude brilliant colors!
After discovering this, Kong Jianwen immediately stopped the clean-up work, and simply asked everyone to directly use the box, extract the puppet carts in the whole box, and transport them to the laboratory built in the archaeological base.
It is well known that the brightly colored lacquerware in ancient tombs oxidizes quickly when exposed to oxygen.
In order to maintain this fleeting beauty.
The best way to protect the lacquerware is to soak it in water as soon as it is unearthed, and then put it in a low-oxygen environment.
These puppet cars, even if they are figures of equal proportions, each car has a length of half a meter to more than a meter and a width.
And in the process of cleaning the sludge, maybe the front has just been cleaned up, and the back of the silt has not been cleaned, and the lacquered wood in front will quickly oxidize when it comes into contact with oxygen.
If small objects such as lacquer plates and lacquer cups are okay, it is too late to put them directly out of the silt and put them in the low-oxygen storage cabinet.
These puppets can't do it.
Therefore, the best way is to simply not clean up on site.
Kong Jianwen took a few old professors, and after measuring the size of several puppet carts buried under the mud with a ruler and eyes, he commanded Chen Han and their coolies, and simply drew a boxy grid around these puppet carts.
The lattice, with its carts and silt, all enclosed it inside.
Then, one by one, the large detachable boxes used for packaging were sent to the carriage and carriage.
After adjusting the box to the right size, the dolls were extracted with the silt, put directly into the box, and quickly filled the box with oxygen-free water.
"Send these dolls to the laboratory in the base."
"Those lab archaeologists have been waiting for a long time."
"We'll find them some work too!"