preface
The turtle is broken, but the monument is missing, and the horse mane knows to bury the old and the new.
The continent has a long history, and in the long river of time, many things in the past have long been blurred, and we now want to understand the past of that period only by consulting the documents and archaeology that are still recorded. In order to pursue the truth of history, the mainland has been carrying out archaeological excavations, and in these archaeological acts, digging ancient tombs is a very important way. Henan once dug up the tomb of a Chu nobleman, which was protected by a three-story sand cover, and the thousands of cultural relics unearthed in the tomb were also intact.
An ancient tomb with thousands of cultural relics intact
Ancient times have always had a tradition of funerary products, the more people with status, the more funerary goods in the tomb after death, such a practice provides great help for our current archaeology, if you can dig a large tomb, you can harvest a large number of rare cultural relics. But it is too difficult to preserve the tomb intact, first of all, the problem of tomb robbers, from the day there was a practice of burial goods, the profession of tomb robbers has existed. For an ancient tomb, the harm of tomb robbers is devastating, and in addition to tomb robbers, there are many difficulties in preserving the tomb completely.
In fact, the biggest enemy of the tomb is not the tomb robber, but time, in a long time, what happens is possible, there have been many ancient tombs that have been infiltration by groundwater and caused a total collapse. Therefore, everyone who builds a mausoleum will pay attention to protecting the safety of the ancient tomb, usually using large bluestone as a building material, and then designing various mechanisms in the tomb. The ancient tomb found in Henan this time is an ancient tomb that has achieved the ultimate in this regard, and after thousands of years of time, there are still thousands of cultural relics well preserved.
Excavations began
During the Spring Festival in 2005, in a village in Henan, villagers who were originally enjoying a happy festival suddenly heard a deafening noise. The villagers did not know what was happening, and rushed out of the house to check the situation, but nothing was found at the time, and the matter could only be abandoned. The Spring Festival passed quickly, and everyone turned to the previous mode of life. At this time, when a farmer was digging in his own field, he suddenly found that a large black hole appeared in the field, and he immediately realized that the noise he heard on the day of the Spring Festival should have come from here.
Henan is a large cultural province on the mainland, and the people here are very experienced, and after seeing this hole, they immediately realized that there were tomb robbers and quickly reported the news to the police. After learning of this news, the police also attached great importance to it, on the one hand, they sent police officers to protect the scene, and on the other hand, they also notified the local cultural relics department. Soon both parties arrived, and after investigation, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that although the tomb robbers had made a hole here, the tomb had not yet been stolen, so the excavation work began quickly.
This tomb is very cleverly constructed
The excavation project was extremely difficult, the owner of this tomb, when it was first built, spent a lot of thought, the main body of the tomb was built in the depth of several meters, and also used a lot of sediment piled around the tomb. The reason for the failure of the tomb robbers is that their tools are rudimentary and they are afraid of being discovered by the surrounding villagers. After blowing open a hole with explosives, it turned out that it was impossible to enter, so it abandoned the place, and the ancient tomb that had been passed down for thousands of years was preserved.
Although the construction of this ancient tomb is ingenious, it is also very weak under the excavation of experts using professional construction tools. If it were not for the safety of the tomb, it would only take a few hours to dig it up. After a day of excavation, the tomb finally reappeared, when a full 7 meters of soil was dug up to successfully excavate. However, at this time, experts still dare not enter the tomb to investigate, because there is a large amount of sand accumulation around the tomb, and it is raining here, and the sand and water have become a natural quicksand pool, and it is impossible to enter if the sand is not drained.
The difficulty of sand removal is much higher than the difficulty of digging up the burial chamber, and it took a large number of workers several days to clear the sand. According to post-mortem statistics, the sand dug out was three stories high. Then the experts entered the burial chamber for investigation, just entered, they were extremely happy, the original tomb is well preserved, the main body of the building is basically intact, the cultural relics in addition to some dust, basically no damage.
epilogue
After a period of investigation, thousands of artifacts have been unearthed from this tomb, all of which are extremely precious. The number of cultural relics unearthed from this ancient tomb is so large and the value is so high that it can be ranked first in the country. So who is the owner of this tomb? After carefully inquiring into the historical documents and examining the cultural relics excavated in the tomb, it was finally determined that the owner of the tomb was a nobleman of the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but it has not been determined who the tomb owner is.
Reference: Tomb