Chapter 268: How to Open the Inner Coffin?
The cultural relics between the inner and outer coffins took half a month to extract almost everything.
Most of the cultural relics are extracted as a whole.
As a result, many cultural relics actually don't even know what front-line archaeologists are, or they are stacked together, and it is not easy to distinguish.
What can be distinguished is the batch of gold ware, jade rings, jade bi and other jade, as well as some lacquered wood.
On top of that, there are also a few iron swords with jade accessories!
Overall, the burial goods between the inner and outer coffins are still very rich.
If nothing else, this batch of gold objects alone is luxurious enough.
The gold plates have been weighed.
The lightest piece has more than 800 grams, and the heaviest has more than 1,100 grams.
The number of gold plates is 20 in total, adding up to more than 20 kilograms!
What are these gold plates used for, the archaeological team members and the scholars in the rear can't give an answer for a while.
Because, in the archaeology of previous Han tombs, this is the first time that a gold plate has appeared.
There is no provenance in the historical documents, and the artifacts themselves do not have any characteristics or written records.
In this case, it is really difficult to figure out what these gold plates are used for.
The simplest explanation is that it is only convenient to preserve, so it is made into this shape.
But this reason is difficult to convince.
According to the archaeological experience of the Han tombs of the past dynasties, in the Western Han Dynasty, the preservation method of gold was made into gold cakes, not into the shape of gold bars and gold nuggets.
There are many excavated examples of eucalyptus as evidence.
The mere excavation of this gold plate is not evidence of this.
It can be said that these 20 gold plates will become one of the unsolved mysteries of the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding.
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"How?"
"So far, we have not found any direct evidence that can conclusively prove that the owner of the tomb is Liu He, Marquis of Haidu."
"But as long as the inner coffin is opened, everything should be revealed."
Standing next to the main coffin that had been cleaned up, Kong Jianwen touched his chin and looked at the lonely inner coffin in the main coffin, a little excited and a little excited.
After half a month of cleaning, the inner coffin has been completely revealed.
Now all that is needed to open the coffin is to determine who the owner of the tomb is.
Don't look at everyone in the archaeological team, they are already very sure that the owner of this tomb must be Liu He, Marquis of Haiding, because in addition to Liu He, there is no second person in the Nanchang realm who can build such a luxurious tomb in the Western Han Dynasty.
Not even the second and third Marquis of the Sea Dusk!
However, there is a lack of key evidence that can directly prove that the owner of the tomb is the Marquis of Haidu.
And the easiest place to find this kind of evidence is the inner coffin of the tomb owner.
Perhaps, the seal printed with the words "Liu He, Marquis of Haidu" was lying quietly in the inner coffin.
Perhaps, in the mouth of the corpse of the Marquis of Haidu, perhaps hanging from his waist, or possibly in a lacquered box, next to the pillow.
However, no matter where the seal is, the coffin must be opened before it can be known.
All the people in the archaeological team at the site were eager to open the inner coffin of the tomb owner.
But archaeological excavations cannot tolerate any loss.
As for the method of opening the coffin, it remains to be determined.
Many archaeological team members are still looking forward to the fact that the body of the tomb owner is well preserved, and there may be another wet corpse of the Western Han Dynasty.
Chen Han, who had already participated in Mr. Sui's excavation work, was okay about this and was not so excited.
But the archaeologists of the Jiangxi Institute are really looking forward to this.
Because, the preservation of this tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang is really very good.
The situation is very similar to Mr. Sui's Phoenix Mountain Han Tomb and Mrs. Xin Chai's Mawangdui Han Tomb.
All of them have been submerged by groundwater for a long time, they are all in a state of saturation, and they are all strictly anaerobic sealed soil.
This made many archaeologists of the Jiangxi Institute, including Wen Yuangen, the director, look forward to it.
You must know that a well-preserved ancient corpse of the Western Han Dynasty is much more significant than the study of the wreckage!
It is also for this reason that Wen Yuangen and several archaeologists from the Jiangxi Institute do not agree with the practice of opening the coffin on the spot.
They all agreed that the inner coffin should be boxed and extracted, and then sent to the archaeological laboratory in the rear, where the coffin should be opened.
The archaeological excavation of the tomb of the Marquis of Nanchang is a shocking discovery.
After the project was mentioned as the "national prefix", it was next to the tomb, and the archaeological base built with the concept of advanced science and technology was built together.
Among them, there are several modern laboratories that have been specially built.
For example, when the hypoxic laboratory enters the working state, it will be filled with a lot of inert gases, and the anaerobic cultural relics such as silk fabrics can be placed indoors to ensure the safety of the cultural relics.
During the excavation of the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, once some relics with fragile properties and easy oxidation were found, they would immediately be put into a mobile hypoxic storage cabinet and then sent to this hypoxic laboratory.
Then let the laboratory staff carry out the follow-up archaeological cleaning and extraction work.
Of course, there are many other laboratories besides this hypoxic laboratory.
There is a low-temperature sterile laboratory, which is very suitable for the opening of the inner coffin.
After Wen Yuangen and Kong Jianwen discussed, the two finally decided to pack the inner coffin and extract it, and then send it to the laboratory of the archaeological base to open the coffin.
Although, it is not necessary that there will be well-preserved incorruptible ancient corpses in the coffin.
However, silk fabrics are bound to appear.
After all, it is impossible for the Marquis of Haidun to be buried naked.
And the inner coffin will generally have a large amount of silk fabric.
These need to be opened in the case of a laboratory is the best.
Otherwise, if the coffin is opened directly on the spot, some silk fabrics that were originally not oxidized may be oxidized very quickly as soon as the coffin is opened.
This is a very serious loss for the country!
In order to transport the inner coffin, a mobile hypoxic gas workstation was even brought in.
It's said to be a workstation, but it's actually a big truck with a compartment.
The carriage is a hypoxic gas workstation.
The archaeologists need to send this inner coffin to the carriage.
The low-oxygen workstation then comes to work, injecting a large amount of inert gas into the compartment to protect the inner coffin from oxidation due to long-term exposure to oxygen.
With advanced scientific research equipment, the transfer of the inner coffin is naturally not a problem.
With the help of some mechanical equipment.
Soon, the inner coffin of the owner of the tomb was covered with two layers of protective covers, one made of wood and the other made of iron.
After the inner coffin was packed in two layers of boxes, it was pushed out of the burial chamber by a cart similar to a coffin bed through the tomb tunnel that had been completely cleared.
Outside the cemetery, the cryogenic protection station was quietly parked there.
Unloading, loading, all in one go.
In less than ten minutes, the entire inner coffin was transported from the inside to the outside, and loaded and sent away, preserving the situation of the inner coffin to the greatest extent.
After seeing the cryogenic workstation leave, Kong Jianwen and Wen Yuangen also planned to take Chen Han and them to the archaeological base next to them to open the coffin.
At this moment, though.
A staff member of the Nanchang Archaeological Institute ran over panting, stopped the two big leaders, and said breathlessly: "The two directors." ”
"A money vault was found in the tomb, which was full of five baht coins, and it was estimated that there could be dozens of tons!"
"We can't handle it at all!"