Because the main tomb does not have a yellow intestine inscription, and Liu He reserved a space for the yellow intestine inscription.

Therefore, for the archaeologists, although it is a pity, their cleaning of the main tomb can be much smoother.

Of course, only relatively.

Although the roof was opened, the archaeologists still could not enter the main burial chamber.

Because, the whole burial chamber is full of stagnant water!

The stagnant water almost forms a small pool!

Including the coffin, everything was in stagnant water.

Of course, because of hundreds of years of precipitation, the silt and other things in the stagnant water have sunk to the bottom of the water, and the stagnant water in the upper layer is still very clear.

The archaeological staff at the site can also see the outline of the silt underneath through the stagnant water.

And between the silt, the gold and bronze ware that shine brightly!

The dense burial goods either sank to the bottom of the water or floated directly on the water!

Yes, and the burial goods are floating on the water!

Obviously, most of the things that can float up are lacquered wood!

And some of the patent leather that has fallen off!

However, in the face of this tomb soaked in stagnant water, the archaeologists at the scene were not only not disappointed, but even more excited!

Stagnant water is good!

With groundwater protection, coupled with the anaerobic treatment on the wooden roof, the burial goods in the main burial chamber are obviously better protected!

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

"How?"

"It's the same old way!"

After a little discussion with Director Wen, Kong Jianwen decided on the excavation plan.

In fact, it is just a matter of choosing one of the previously formulated plans.

For archaeological institutes in Shaanxi, Henan and other places, it is possible that the excavation of such water-saturated tombs is somewhat inexperienced.

After all, the soil in Henan is dry, and the underground tombs are basically buried for four or five hundred years, and there are only traces of wood left, and there can be no underground water-filled tombs.

However, for the two lakes on both sides of the Yangtze River basin, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the excavation of water-saturated tombs is too common.

For this kind of water-saturated tomb, a set of professional excavation methods has long been formed.

To put it simply, the water is pumped first, and after the water is pumped to about the same height as the burial goods are piled up, about five to ten centimeters on the horizontal plane, a floating operating platform is built with wood.

Then the archaeologists squatted or lay on the operating platform, and the artifacts in the water could be cleaned up.

After cleaning one layer, pump down another layer of water.

This repetition can ensure that these cultural relics are still soaked in water and not damaged until they are cleaned up.

At the same time, it can be convenient for archaeologists to clean up.

The members of the expert group drawn from the archaeological institutes from all over the country also came to watch the process of pumping water and laying the operating platform.

The deputy director from the Shaanxi Archaeological Museum said excitedly: "This is incomparable to any of the princes' tombs, and even most of the princes' tombs!" Extremely good value! ”

Although the clean-up of the main burial chamber has not yet begun, the mere sight of the artifacts piled up under the stagnant water in the main burial chamber already makes them excited.

"In my decades of archaeological work, I have never seen a tomb with such abundant burial goods!"

As the stagnant water was gradually pumped away, the water level was lowered, and the burial goods covered under the silt began to enter the eyes of archaeologists.

Gold, silver, bronze and iron, pottery, jade including precious stones, agate, turquoise......

All kinds of burial goods, even if they are covered in silt, are still so conspicuous in the eyes of sharp-eyed archaeologists!

The pumping took three days.

The archaeologists, including Chen Han, all watched by the main tomb for three days.

Everyone was roughly mentally prepared for the things placed in various positions in the main burial chamber.

Of course, only the first layer that can be seen on the surface.

When the stagnant water is pumped and has reached three to five centimeters above the burial goods, the pumping work stops.

The planks were put up in the shape of "Tian" to about five to ten centimeters above the ground.

When these planks are erected, it means that the front-line archaeologists can enter the site.

Chen Han, Zhuang Yunpeng, and Lin Ya formed a group, followed by other archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, and took the lead in entering the main tomb.

According to the order of cleaning, the first thing to clean must be the west room, that is, the outer room, and the inner room where the coffin is placed is not in a hurry.

Although it is said to be divided into an inner and outer room, in fact, there is no portal connecting the two, and there are only two passages that can accommodate two people to pass side by side.

So the stagnant water actually runs through the inside and outside.

After entering the West Room, Chen Han and the others immediately threw themselves into the clean-up work.

It's not just them.

In the entire west room, there are thirty or forty archaeologists who are cleaning and excavating work.

Because it is a wet burial chamber full of water, for the archaeologists, their clean-up work this time is like digging lotus roots in a silt pond.

It's even harder than digging lotus roots in a silt pond.

Because after all, the lotus root and the silt are not yet connected.

However, because these cultural relics have been mixed with silt for a long time, most of the cultural relics have been integrated with the silt after a long time.

How to strip these artifacts from the deep mud pit one by one, without destroying the artifacts themselves.

This is obviously something that requires patience, care, and is difficult to do.

Even the artifacts themselves, many of them are still fused with each other.

Except for some large utensils, such as bronze ritual vessels, which can barely be cleaned out.

Most of the remaining cultural relics, in fact, everyone chose to extract them as a whole.

That is, no matter what these cultural relics are glued into, as long as they are "a lump" or "a lump", they will be directly extracted one by one.

As for the fact that they are already glued together and covered in silt, this is not a problem.

Later, these cultural relics extracted as a whole will be sent to the laboratory, and some chemicals and the like will be used to peel them off.

It is certainly unrealistic to expect these cultural relics to be cleaned up one by one on the spot, or even cleaned up cleanly.

This is different from the TV series on the theme of tomb robbery.

In the TV series on the theme of tomb robbery, the cultural relics in the tomb are all well placed one by one, and they are clean.

The protagonist group can go directly with it.

But in fact, except for those that have only been buried for two or three hundred years.

But where the time span is more than 1,000 years, the cultural relics inside have long been unrecognizable.

The north is fine, because the north is dry, and even after a long time, the cultural relics only become more fragile, but not all glued together.

But in the south, it was really a whole lump of silt, and it was impossible to sort it out on the spot!

If a group of tomb robbers entered the main tomb chamber of the Marquis of Haidu, then they would also have to be blind, and they would only be able to take away some of the cultural relics that were still well preserved and did not "collude" with the silt.

As for wanting to take it all?

Impossible.

This is also the reason why although the Han tombs are ten rooms and nine empty, the rescue excavations of the Han tombs in various places have never stopped.

Even if the tomb thieves have taken care of the tombs many times one after another, there will still be many cultural relics that are difficult to take away.

And these cultural relics that take several years to clean up, it is precisely only archaeologists and cultural relics restoration workers who have the patience and accusation to take over!