Chapter 288: The Mysterious Emperor’s Mausoleum

The next day, the archaeological excavation of the thousand-year-old tomb in the bonded area continued! Because the underground palace in the ancient tomb has been opened, the next step is to go in and face the rare treasures directly. Now, the air in the underground palace is completely convective with the outside world and will no longer cause harm to people, but the air threatens the treasures in the underground palace at all times. Thinking back to the time, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, the murals and scriptures in the Dunhuang Sutra Cave were all oxidized, faded, deformed or even disappeared in a short time after encountering the air. Now, all this is still repeated, because according to the current technological level, Professor Wang is still a little psychologically shady, because he has also encountered such a failure, and he watched the priceless cultural relics disappear or destroy what kind of mood is this?

Now everyone knows that there are countless treasures in the thousand-year-old tomb, so the level of protection has been strengthened again. This time, Liu Yihua, as a guard and Zhang Kai, led several soldiers to accompany the archaeological team to carry out archaeological excavation.

Seeing Professor Wang's look worried about gains and losses, Liu Yihua said: "Professor Wang, I think it seems that there is no cultural relics of silk fabrics or wood products. Even if you look for them, they will be damaged by long-term soaking in water. Of course, there is even less possibility of any ancient books. All the things left in them are gold, silver or jade. These things should not be afraid of oxidation, right?" Liu Yihua has been listening to the oxidation problem of the archaeological team in his cultural relics.

Professor Wang nodded and said, "There are definitely many good things here. We still don't know whether there are cultural relics that are afraid of oxidation. But we still need to be fully prepared. To be honest, I am still worried, which means that the damage to cultural relics has happened frequently before."

Liu Yihua said curiously: "Is the oxidation of cultural relics really so powerful? I have only seen some information before, but I have never seen it with my own eyes." For ordinary people, there is no chance to see the oxidation and damage of cultural relics with their own eyes.

Professor Wang said sadly: "The current science cannot find a level that can completely ensure that cultural relics are not damaged. I remember that once we were digging a tomb of a vassal king of the Ming Dynasty, and then we saw that the air inside was rising. It was snowing that day, and we saw a stone altar inside. In addition to the five offerings, there were two boxes, one stone box, and the other was a gold-inlaid wooden box. The stone box was fine, but the wooden box had problems. This wooden box looked very well at that time, but because it was not cleaned and protected in time, and the air was already open, when we officially cleaned it, we found that the box had begun to deform! Once the lacquer woodware was deformed, it would never be restored, and the box had been deformed and could not be repaired. I was really sad at that time."

Professor Wang shook his head and continued, "Not only the wooden box has been deformed, but other things are also changing. There is a layer of silk on the box, embroidered by a dragon and embroidered by a dragon, but you cannot protect this silk when you take it. The silk is not well preserved. When we were dealing with it, we found that the entire dragon on the box has been deformed and the silk has become deteriorated. Such a precious work of art has basically been damaged. So this matter has always been a shadow in my heart, but according to the current science, there is still no way to avoid oxidation and damage of cultural relics. We can only do our best."

At this time, everyone had already entered the bottom. Professor Wang pointed to the mud in front and said, "It is no exaggeration to say that the treasures in the tomb in front of him may be more than many archaeologists have touched in their lifetime! This is just a gold, silver and jewelry that have been done on the surface of the mud. Who knows how thick this layer of mud is? Who knows how many treasures are buried in it?"

After saying that, Professor Wang asked everyone to prepare for formal excavation. For such an important excavation, you can imagine the pressure from Professor Wang. Will Professor Wang repeat the same mistake and encounter some difficult cultural relics that are difficult to protect? No one knows at this time, even if he himself is not sure. But one thing is certain, if he fails this time, it will be the biggest shame in Professor Wang's life in his life, because this excavation is the dream of many archaeologists for the rest of their lives, and it is also likely to be a tomb that they experienced before retirement! You must know that Professor Wang is over 60 years old this year. Of course, Professor Wang has made sufficient psychological preparations. No matter how difficult it is, the core of this treasure hunting operation is that the treasure search must be started.

Finally, Professor Wang took a deep breath and said that the excavation work had officially begun. However, when the archaeological team was preparing to clean up the back room of the underground palace, which is the place where the tomb owner's body is placed and where all the treasures are preserved, Professor Wang suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon - the coffin bed should be in the middle of the tomb, but this ancient tomb is not, one is in the middle of the middle of the other is on the west wall. Why is this? If it is a double burial, then no matter how many people are placed in the entire coffin bed, it will be in the middle instead of one leaning against the wall. This is obviously not in line with the usual track.

"How could this happen?" Other archaeological team members obviously discovered this problem. Even Liu Yihua thought it was a bit incredible. In ancient times, there should be many rules for such royal tombs. How could another person be buried beside the owner's side by the wall?

Professor Wang initially wondered if his eyes were blurred? How could there be two coffin beds in such a royal tomb that were inconsistent? Could it be that this is a special form of a joint tomb? But Professor Wang could not think of such a bizarre dynasty in our country and which dynasty in our country.

"My professor, is this a joint burial?" Liu Yihua asked curiously.

Professor Wang was not sure, "It seems that no. It may be. But it seems that this ancient tomb was not a tomb chamber for joint burial when it was designed. You see, the structure is different. This is a typical structure of a single tomb. But how could there be two coffin beds in the ancient tomb? Look, the stone coffin bed is the owner of the tomb, because the coffin is placed in the middle, and the middle position is limited, so there is no way to place an extra coffin bed. This at least shows that this was not a coffin tomb when it was originally designed."

Liu Yihua nodded and said, "Yes. It doesn't look like it. But why are there two coffins? Was this pitiful coffin leaning against the wall buried with you?"

Professor Wang shook his head and said, "No. I now think the coffin bed leaning against the wall should have been added later." At this time, my professor suddenly remembered the golden hairpin that Liu Yihua picked up when he first stepped into the underground palace. Will there be a woman buried here? Will the coffin bed leaning against the wall be a concubine or something?

Liu Yihua looked around with a flashlight and suddenly said, "What is that? A stone tablet? There will be a stone tablet in the tomb? There should be words on it?"

Professor Wang looked at it and said excitedly: "Yes! There must be! I saw it here! It seems that this stone tablet is very important to unravel some mysterious phenomena in this ancient tomb. Flush it with water quickly..."

Next, everyone washed out the stone tablet with all their strength. The CCTV camera's lights were brighter, and the TV camera's lens was also aimed at the stone tablet for shooting. The fonts on it were all traditional Chinese characters, which many people couldn't understand. Of course, they could not get these characters for Professor Wang.

Professor Wang gently explained the records on the stone tablet to everyone, and it turned out that there was a touching story: an emperor of a dynasty passed away, and the imperial concubine was buried alive. However, the new emperor disagreed and comforted his sister-in-law that he must live well. The new emperor is the old emperor's uncle and has always been very cautious about this sister-in-law.

In this way, the old emperor's imperial concubine slowly recovered her emotions and continued to live. However, she had been depressed for less than ten years. She had to be buried with the late emperor before her death. This was a problem! Because the late emperor loved the imperial concubine very much, he deliberately built a single tomb, which was his beloved concubine. What should I do now? The stone gate of this ancient cemetery palace was firmly closed ten years ago and could not be entered at all. But now the imperial concubine must be buried together! This problem troubles the new emperor.

In order to allow the body of the imperial concubine to enter the underground palace, people must open the pair of stone doors of the underground palace. But the gate of the underground palace has been closed since the first emperor was placed in. A large stone strip was tightly pressed between the two stone doors from the inside. Therefore, it was impossible for people at that time to push open the huge stone strip to press against the ground stone door from the outside. In order to send the body of the imperial concubine to the underground palace, people at that time could only use huge impact force to smash half of the stone door. The final result was that the stone door was smashed and the stone fell down with a bang. So today we can only see the remaining stone door in the underground palace. At that time, in order to keep the tomb clean, the new emperor also asked someone to clean up the broken stones out of the underground palace. This is why we cannot see the stone door or the stone door fragments today.

What should I do after the door is broken? Can't I use one to break the door? Everyone moved the stone strip and the stone door, and replaced it with another lacquered wooden door. It is impossible for a dignified imperial underground palace to have no main door, but due to limited space, it is unlikely to rebuild a stone door, and only a wooden door can be replaced. However, as time goes by, when the current archaeological team comes in, this kind of wooden door has long since rotted and disappeared.

Professor Wang immediately asked someone to carefully find some fragments of wooden doors underground. The wooden doors have a certain thickness, as well as handpapers, locks, and such thick boards... Although the department is rotten now, there should be the spikes and components on the door. Then everyone found these things. There was indeed a wooden door on the front at that time.

At this time, everyone understood why there were two coffins and why they were placed in this way. Because although the body of the imperial concubine entered the underground palace, the subsequent problems made people even more distressed at that time, because the design of the solitary tomb was only one coffin bed, and there was no place for the imperial concubine's coffin to be placed. What should I do? There is no place inside, and the coffin bed of the late emperor is designed in the center. What should I do if the imperial concubine wants to go in? There is no way to build a shop. This is also a matter of no choice.

Without the tombstone as evidence, no one would have expected that the underground palace of the late emperor in this dynasty would have been destructively opened again ten years after the master's death. At this time, since the emperor had passed away for many years, although the imperial concubine felt a little aggrieved by the wall, in any case, she finally fulfilled her wish to reunite her husband and wife.

Now, Professor Wang and the archaeological team can finally breathe a sigh of relief, because they finally figured out the mystery of the mysterious towel and the missing stone gate for no reason. Now, they felt extremely excited in their hearts, because it is safe to say that the tomb robbers have never successfully entered this thousand-year-old tomb!

Liu Yihua said in confusion: "Professor Wang, it seems that there is no dynasty on this stone tablet? Who does the ancestor... mean?"

Professor Wang smiled and said, "I really can't figure it out. It may be that the emperor is still paying attention to keeping it confidential and dare not disclose it on purpose."

"So how could such an emperor have so many treasures? It's impossible that the entire treasury was buried with him, right?" Liu Yihua felt that there were too many gold, silver and jewelry in it. Now, under the bright light, the golden light shining in the mud was shocking.

Professor Wang shook his head and said, "I don't know this. There is also such a possibility. After all, there are no particularly powerful and wealthy dynasties in the southern history of our country. No matter what, clean it up first. The treasures here are really dazzling."

Professor Wang immediately organized people to organize the organization after he finished speaking. The archaeological team was very cautious. After nearly a thousand years, all cultural relics have adapted to the conditions in the ancient tombs, and the underground palace was flooded before it was opened. Now Professor Wang is facing problems not only to remove a large amount of treasures from the mud, but also to ensure the safety of cultural relics to the greatest extent.

This is the last severe test. Professor Wang knows that we cannot take it lightly now. Many archaeological experts will cause the damage of some precious cultural relics due to negligence. Professor Wang told himself that he must not make such mistakes.

Today, Professor Wang came to the back room of the underground palace and revealed all the questions that arose along the way. All the treasures were under the thick mud one step away. At this time, his mind was filled with various thoughts. He fantasized about the incomprehensible value of the brilliant treasures under the mud. But he was afraid that the nightmare of the destruction of cultural relics many years ago would happen again after he opened the thick mud.
Chapter completed!