As an ancient cultural power, the mainland has left countless histories and treasures for thousands of years, and many archaeologists on the mainland have also explored the infinite style of ancient dynasties by virtue of these excavated historical relics, and have completely presented the history of that period for us.
In 1975, the People's Liberation Army soldiers in Hubei Jingzhou Phoenix Mountain to build a radar station, in the process of excavation and mining found an ancient tomb, relevant experts immediately excavated and identified this ancient tomb, and finally found that the ancient tomb came from 2140 years ago, the most valuable research value is one of the male corpses, just saw the statue only died, even the funerary goods around are no different from the new.
Male corpse
An ancient tomb was found in Jingzhou, Hubei Province
In June 1975, PLA fighters wanted to build a radar station on Phoenix Mountain, and during the excavation, an ancient tomb was found, which was then reported to the local museum, and the Jingzhou Museum immediately sent archaeologists to investigate the site.
Archaeologists immediately frowned when they arrived at Phoenix Mountain, and the scene in front of them was the picture they least wanted to see, the ancient tomb, although well-preserved, was already visible to the naked eye and was submerged in a full 8 meters of groundwater.
Not to mention entering the ancient tomb to investigate, for many years soaked in the water, whether it is the wall structure outside the tomb or the funerary goods in it and the corpse of the owner of the tomb may be greatly damaged.
Jingzhou Museum
But since this ancient tomb has been discovered, naturally can not ignore, transferred a professional pumping machine to drain the water here, in the process of pumping, the experts' hearts mentioned in the throat eyes, afraid of what is wrong, because the scale of this ancient tomb is very large, the identity of the funerary products or the owner of the tomb is likely to be of great research significance.
After draining the groundwater from the pit, the experts took the coffin back to the Jingzhou Museum for further restoration and study.
After being brought back to the museum, the experts found that the coffin was extremely well preserved, did not decay due to the soaking of groundwater, and the deep pit of more than 10 meters allowed the surrounding soil to be layered to play a protective role, and the result of the coffin was covered in layers, successfully providing a wonderful balance for the integrity of the coffin under the isolation of the soil.
Discover the site of an ancient tomb
This double-layered coffin provides excellent protection for the body of the tomb owner, and the use of white paste mud on the sealing around the coffin plays a double protective role, not only will not be exposed to oxygen corruption, but also will not let the groundwater penetrate into the coffin.
Not only that in the process of excavation, archaeologists noticed that the coffin flowed out of the red liquid, everyone thought that the coffin had been damaged and difficult to repair, but later after investigation, it was found that this layer of liquid was the cinnabar specially sent by the owner of the tomb to apply, cinnabar is not only antiseptic, but also can play a role in preservation.
It is precisely because of the layers of protection in it that this underground tomb can be preserved so well, even to the point of astonishment.
cinnabar
The uncorrupted male corpse came from 2140 years ago
In the process of opening and closing, experts found that the innermost coffin was tightly wrapped in three layers of linen, and there was no possibility of allowing water to penetrate.
It can be seen that the wisdom of the ancients was very clever, although it was an accident that their coffin would be soaked in groundwater, but it was surprising that so much preparation had been made in the sealing and corrosion protection of the coffin before.
But when they actually opened the coffin, they were shocked to find that the owner of the tomb was soaked in a strange liquid, because the original clothes on his body had long disappeared after years of corrosion.
burlap
According to common sense, the corrosion and weathering of clothing fabric is in an extremely normal situation, most of the remaining body is a white bone, but this corpse is completely different from ordinary corpses, not skinny, not rotten and broken, but like just buried in, not only the skin is elastic, even the arms and some important joints can be bent at will.
The most important point is that this corpse even has teeth in its mouth extremely intact, and many archaeologists on the mainland have opened many ancient tombs, but such a situation is indeed extremely rare.
Even the funerary goods placed in the tomb are as smooth as new, everything seems to have happened yesterday, and experts have determined that the owner of the tomb is a Yangli person from Xixiang City, Jiangling County, who was a county order in the imperial court before his death, with a very high status and a surname of "Sui".
Based on this discovery, experts named him "Mr. Sui", who lived in the 13th year of Emperor Wen of Han, 2140 years ago, and mr. Sui is the earliest wet corpse found in the archaeological community on the mainland.
Mr. Sui is about 1 meter 6 tall, very in line with the height of the ancients, weighing more than 100 pounds, for many years in the court rush busy, let him suffer from a very serious stomach disease, according to the existing organ scans in his body to show that he has a long-term gastric perforation phenomenon.
Emperor Wen of Han
The first "wet corpse" unearthed on the mainland
And the funerary items in his tomb are also very valuable for research, not only smooth as new, but also the ornaments on it are well preserved and exquisite, although the top configuration of gold and silver jewelry in the Han Dynasty period cannot be found here, but most of them are rare and rare things that only high-ranking officials and nobles can have.
The state of Mr. Sui's body is called wet corpse, which means that not only is it in excellent state of preservation, but even soft tissues and joints can move as easily as when they were just dead.
Mr. Sui is earlier than Mrs. Xin Chai unearthed in Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province, and the preservation state is more complete than that of Mrs. Xin Chai, and the hair, teeth, and skin state are perfect, and it is more valuable for research and preservation.
Mrs. Sim chai
However, the conditions for the formation of wet corpses are extremely harsh, and the time and place are favorable to people.
When a foreign president came to visit the mainland, he more than once mentioned the mystery of Mrs. Xin Chai and his love and curiosity about her, and asked the mainland leaders to bring back a piece of Mrs. Xin Chai's hair.
This request seems reasonable, but in fact, whether the other party wants to study the secret of Mrs. Xin Chai's "immortality and immortality" or really wants to collect it is not certain, and finally rejected by the mainland leaders, saying that if the other party really likes Mrs. Xin Chai at any time, she can come and admire it, but it is absolutely impossible to take away the hair and skin on Mrs. Xin Chai's body.
It can be seen that both Mr. Sui and Mrs. Xin Chai are very precious beings, and in addition to having a very high collection value, they also have a very cherished research value and are the treasures of the mainland.