20 years ago, Master Jiang drove the excavator that had accompanied him for many years to work on the construction site as usual, and thought that he was about to leave work, and now he could take a little rest.
But when he manipulated the excavator to dig the soil, the bucket of the excavator was blocked by a very hard object, and Master Jiang instinctively got out of the car to check it out, but it didn't matter, after reading it, Master Jiang screamed.
The other workers also heard Master Jiang's shouting, and they all gathered around, and everyone asked Master Jiang what was wrong, only to see Master Jiang's mouth constantly muttering: "Coffin, coffin!" ”
When the workers heard this, they became interested, and they gathered to watch, but soon they sensed that something was wrong, and the timid people immediately went to find the foreman.
What is it that makes a crowd panic?
The coffin was dug up at the construction site
When the person in charge of the construction site arrived, he went forward to investigate, and then found Master Jiang and asked about the specific situation at that time. It turned out that Master Jiang was in the process of excavation,
Suddenly, he felt that some hard object had been excavated, and thought that there was a boulder buried under the ground, but when he got out of the car to check it, he found that it was only some ordinary wood.
Wood has been buried in the ground for such a long time, it should have been corroded a long time ago, why can it have such a high hardness? With this curiosity, Master Jiang began to slowly dig out the soil on the wood.
When the full picture of the wood was revealed, he found that it was a coffin, he had been engaged in the excavation industry for so many years, and he had more or less heard many feudal stories told by others.
Suddenly, a chill rushed into my heart, so I cried out in fright. The person in charge of the construction site also smiled after listening, "Such a big teacher will still be afraid of those superstitions."
But if he really wanted the foreman to make a decision, he wasn't sure what kind of coffin it was, so he told all the staff to suspend the construction first, and then contacted the local archaeologists.
When the archaeologists arrived, they immediately began to investigate the coffin. Only to see them take out professional utensils from the bag, knock and sweep around the coffin,
After a while, the whole coffin appeared. Archaeologists explained to the people around them while working, saying that the construction of this tomb was a common type standard in the pre-Qin period.
And the tomb they found should also be a big deal, because the size of the entire cemetery can accommodate four coffins, and like the structure of the room, each coffin has its own "room".
Subsequently, archaeologists found dozens of funerary items in the tomb, but this phenomenon made experts confused, because they had just introduced what kind of tomb should come from some famous family.
Dozens of funerary items are indeed a bit out of place for cemetery owners of this scale, because in ancient times, dozens of funerary items were certainly unattainable for civilian families.
However, if the official rank is larger, their funerary goods are placed hundreds of times at every turn, and the owners of tombs of this scale should be at least worthy of thousands of funerary products.
The mystery of the identity of the "Donggong"
As for why there are only a few dozen, we have no way of knowing. The same is true of the second coffin, and the only clue at present is that the word "Donggong" written in the second coffin is written in a letter.
The font writing method is more inclined to Han Li, which also allows experts to further narrow the time frame for the construction of this tomb. But the two words "Donggong" are indeed not small,
The experts deliberated for a while, and they all agreed that the title of "Donggong" must have been written on the coffin by a formerly famous person.
Then they came to the third coffin, which they thought would be the same as before, but then someone in the archaeological team proposed to open the coffin lid to see how it was structured.
So they said do it, and after a while, under their manipulation, the coffin lid became loose. As a result, after opening, there are two layers of sealing plates inside the coffin.
Such operations were really rare, so they continued to dig deeper, and when the scene in the coffin came into view of the experts present, they were completely dumbfounded.
The experts were stunned because inside the coffin was some dark liquid. After they opened the coffin, two white cylinders floated up,
At this time, a bold worker picked up the cylinder and examined it carefully, and it turned out that it was not a cylindrical object at all, but a human leg.
Such a discovery made the staff member stunned, and quickly threw the human leg in his hand back, but some experts became very interested when they heard that it was a human leg.
A thousand-year-old female corpse
As they approached the coffin, they began to scrutinize them, and the legs were the same as those of a living person, and although they had lost their luster after being soaked in this dark liquid for a long time, they still maintained the elasticity of a living person.
Just when some people were amazed by this, suddenly a leading expert said, "Quickly close the coffin lid", and the crowd was awakened by this sentence and quickly closed the lid.
Decades ago, the mainland unearthed a case similar to such a corpse, the eyes of the deceased have not been closed, the body has not decayed, like a person who has just died for a while.
But other than that, there were no similar corpses for a long time. Therefore, archaeologists have thought twice about it and called it a "wet corpse".
Now the "wet corpse" has once again appeared in front of everyone's eyes, which will surely be one of the most eye-catching hot spots in the future. Research in many areas will also have a great role in promoting.
Experts collected some liquids from the coffin and brought them back to study, and if there were any major discoveries, the impact of such discoveries would surely exceed the attention paid to egyptian "mummies" at that time.
From the scientific field, after a person dies, it will decay in less than 5 minutes, and the time to completely turn into white bones will not exceed dozens of days.
But the tomb is about two thousand years old, so why does the corpse still have elastic skin?
With such questions in mind, the experts went through the information about the "mummy". People usually see the mummy, attracted only by the bandages on its surface,
In fact, the secret of the body inside the mummy that is not bad for thousands of years has little to do with the bandage on the outside. Because the process of making a mummy is actually very cumbersome.
It is necessary to take out all the internal organs of the deceased who have died necrotically, take out all kinds of substances in the skull, and finally put a lot of antiseptic spices to keep the body from decaying.
But the corpse itself will still become dry, it is impossible to show the skin of a living person, in order to satisfy the experts' more research on the corpse, they will drain all the dark liquid inside.
Finally, the whole body was revealed, this person was originally a woman, only to see her face in pain, her hands tied to her abdomen by some kind of rope, but those ropes with the passage of time,
It has been decomposed without a trace, which shows that this person was directly buried alive before his death, so the two layers of sealing plates on the coffin can also be explained clearly.
If one layer of sealing plates is to prevent outsiders from entering, then the role of two sealing plates is to prevent people inside the coffin from coming out.
So why make a wet corpse? What was the intention of the owner of this tomb?
More evidence is emerging
Above we mentioned that archaeologists speculated that the owner of the tomb was a very high-ranking person, but it was overturned by his pitiful funerary products. However, in ancient times, the burial of living people was also an act that could only be carried out by high-ranking officials and nobles.
But even if you want to be buried with a living person, you don't need to make a wet corpse. At this time, someone saw a black box inside the coffin, and when he opened it, he found that there was a seal inside.
In ancient times, the people who had such seals were all officials, but the phenomenon of male superiority and female inferiority in ancient mainland China was very serious, how could a woman become an official at that time?
Loopholes appeared in an endless stream, so that the archaeologists present also had no direction, but before the dark liquid test report came out, the experts became more confused after reading the test results.
Because most of the conventional anti-corrosion materials are alkaline, but those liquids are acidic, and they not only do not corrode the corpse, but also preserve the body intact to the present.
Therefore, experts speculate that there is another reason for keeping the corpse unchanged for thousands of years, but these are not what we can know now.
There is more and more information about the identity of the tomb owner, and there is a wooden scroll in the funeral product, which records that many Taishou came to participate in the funeral of the "Donggong".
If he is not a person of noble status, how can so many Taishou come to the funeral, so experts speculate that his identity is at least above that of Taishou.
The identity of the female corpse should probably be the woman next to this "Donggong", and as for the seal, it should also have been given to her by the way when the emperor of the dynasty rewarded the "Donggong".
But her coffin is far more gorgeous than the previous two, and can only be said to be a tomb at best. And from her painful expression, we can know that there are definitely more secrets to this funeral that year.
At this time, some of the archaeologists showed a helpless look on their faces, and more people said that they were very unwilling, because the tomb had too many unsolved mysteries.
The specific identity of the "Donggong", why there are so few funeral items, why the female corpse has not been transformed for thousands of years, and why she was buried alive, etc., we have no way of knowing.
However, the discovery of this ancient tomb also has a very significant role in the archaeological and historical circles of the mainland, and the many mysteries left behind this time are bound to bring unlimited imagination to future generations.
Finally, with the development of science and technology, these unsolved mysteries will eventually usher in the answer, let us wait and see!