Chapter Seventy-Four: Two Tombs Are Opened at the Same Time
The first warrior to be hoisted into the tomb by crane entered Tomb One with a flashlight and a breathing mask.
After all the audience held their breath and waited for more than 20 minutes, the archaeologists who entered the tomb spoke on the intercom:
"Headquarters, headquarters, Tomb No. 1 are all in order, and follow-up entry can be arranged."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the scene immediately arranged for follow-up personnel to enter the tomb.
At the same time, the national television station also arranged for the camera to enter with the second entry personnel in order to broadcast live to everyone.
After another 10 minutes, when they were ready, the crane lifted everyone through the gap and slowly entered the unknown burial chamber.
The interior of the royal tomb, which has been sealed for thousands of years, is presented in front of trillions of people.
Everyone finally reached the ground, and their feet carefully stepped on it, and the ground was actually a floor paved with solid wood, but the wooden floor of thousands of years was instantly deformed under the pressure of people's own weight, and they basically stepped on a deep footprint.
The leader of the team hurriedly stopped everyone and did not destroy the floor.
Everyone had to stand still and wait for the next step.
This is the cameraman carrying the camera, the archaeological personnel next to the guest lighting engineer to help the lights, the camera first from the top and then look around, basically the entire tomb internal structure to scan the whole tomb, roughly can be seen that the whole tomb is T-shaped, where everyone is the tomb robbers dug the tomb coffin coffin room, there is an ear chamber on the left and right, in front of the main room is the front room, the front room in front of the corridor and the tomb sealing door.
Each burial chamber is directly separated by a wooden door, and after thousands of years, the wooden door has long disappeared, but the huge metal nails on the wooden door are scattered along with the decaying wooden door.
After the camera scanned it, the first lens was aimed at the coupon arch that was not uncovered, the archaeological team was very worried that the way of "opening the skylight" would make the ancient tomb collapse, after all, although the excavation of the skylight type can effectively protect the original site, but the risk is the greatest, there is the possibility of collapse and damage to cultural relics at any time, so the first thing to go down to the underground palace is to check the structural stability.
But after the shooting of the camera, the on-site archaeologists found that this tomb is much stronger than imagined, the coupon arch stone at the top of the tomb is spliced by bluestone according to the mortise and tenon structure, and in order to make the water bigger and discharge the water, the gap of the stone is also made of molten iron hook treatment, even if the on-site archaeological team forcibly dismantles a coupon arch stone through modern machinery, but the other fist arches are still not moving, and they are extremely firm.
Although in the south, the burial chamber is unusually dry, and there is not a trace of water on the floor, which is amazing.
This relieved the archaeologists at the site.
Under the illumination of the light, the camera captured a row of 2 groups of footprints on the floor, which was deduced to be left by tomb robbers.
That's fine, the on-site commander asked everyone to step on the tomb robber's handwriting to see where the tomb robber ended up?
The camera camera also sleeps in the footsteps of the grave robbers and walks to a stone platform.
What appeared in front of me was not a good sign, because the coffin made of nanmu had been split in a savage way, and the stone platform was full of sawdust and things taken out of the coffin, and there were a lot of jade pieces scattered all over the ground.
The coffin of the owner of the tomb was destroyed, and the burial goods inside were scattered all over the place, and the tomb robber took care of the coffin, so it is certain that the tomb robber ran directly to the coffin.
At present, it is not possible to assess the extent of the damage caused by the tomb robbers, and the on-site commander hurriedly used the walkie-talkie to notify the ground, ready to arrange wooden planks, and in order not to damage the ground of the tomb, a layer of wooden planks will be laid on the floor of the tomb.
The ground was prepared in advance, and it was immediately arranged to hoist the wooden planks down to the burial chamber.
At the same time, the construction of a canopy over the entire No. 1 Tomb began, and September in Lingnan was still a typhoon-prone season, so it was necessary to prevent rainwater from entering the dry tomb.
That's all for today's live broadcast, and then the archaeological work will begin, and how to excavate it well will be evaluated and planned by a team of experts.
However, before the end of the live broadcast, the archaeological guests who were specially invited to the studio said to all the audience and friends:
The excavation of the ancient tomb of Lingnan can basically be determined to be the tomb of the Nanyue King of the Western Han Dynasty, although the tomb was taken care of by the tomb thieves, but from the analysis of the degree of damage at the scene, the impact should not be too great, the excavation of the ancient tomb in Suicheng is absolutely the most sensational and valuable archaeological act in 1995, and it will be a milestone in the excavation of ancient culture in the entire Lingnan region.
This is also the first time that the two tomb excavations have been broadcast live on national television, so the picture on the TV is broadcast live at the same time.
The staff has successfully entered the burial chamber of Tomb No. 1 to determine the age and find the identity of the tomb's owner.
The excavation method of the second gate next to it is completely different, the second gate adopts the conventional excavation method, from the entrance of the underground palace, digging, finding the corridor and the tomb door, opening the tomb stone door, and then entering the tomb.
However, fortunately, Tomb No. 2 was not cared for by tomb robbers, and the thousands of years did not seem to have left too many traces on her, so Tomb No. 2 was pinned on by the archaeological team.
The passage and stone door of Tomb No. 2 have long been excavated, and the archaeologists can only enter the tomb to excavate when the huge bluestone is hoisted by machinery.
The sealing mound of the No. 2 tomb is smaller than the sealing mound of the No. 1 tomb, according to the ranking, the No. 1 tomb is on the left hand side of the No. 2 tomb, and the ancients respected the left, obviously the identity of the owner of the No. 1 tomb is higher than that of the owner of the No. 2 tomb.
With the roar of the three starters at the site, the stone door of the tomb that the on-site archaeologists hired to dig for 17 days was finally hoisted by modern machinery.
A burst of cheers immediately sounded at the scene, this is a moment worthy of everyone's joy, opening the door of the tomb, means that the ancient work will enter the stage of fine on-site excavation from field archaeology.
The dungeon was opened, and with the lens of the camera, it presented a surprising scene to everyone.
I saw that the walls and ceilings of Tomb No. 2 were painted with these colorful words, and usually these murals were scenes describing the daily behavior and daily life of the tomb owner.
According to the footage taken by the camera, it is not difficult to see that the owner of the tomb is very noble, at least at the level of princes and kings.
This made the archaeologists at the site breathe a sigh of relief, and at this time the scene resounded with warm applause and cheers.
Yes, an ancient tomb that has not been patronized by tomb thieves at the level of a prince will have a lot to look forward to in it, and it is indeed worth high-fiveing and cheering for.
Because of the time and the need to keep the cultural relics confidential, the live broadcast of the first and second tombs stopped until the door of the underground palace was opened, and the next archaeological work will be very fine, and the national television can only continue to report in the future.
According to the research and analysis of authoritative research institutions: this morning, 62% of the people in country C watched the live broadcast of the excavation of the ancient tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Suicheng in front of the TV, which also created a ratings miracle.
Regarding the archaeological discovery of the ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty in Suicheng, the state television will continue to report, but the specific archaeological situation will be announced to all media at 2 p.m. at a press conference initiated by the Suicheng University Town Management Committee.
Of course, in the afternoon there will be a signing ceremony for some of the biggest collaborations of the University Town Management Committee.
With the help of the excavation of the two ancient tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, the university town should build momentum, let everyone know the university town of Suicheng, and let all financial institutions also know through this press release and signing ceremony that the Suicheng University Town project has the confidence and ability to build the university town well.