"Then why were these fragments not handed over to the state?"
I asked her.
"Actually, there are so many terracotta warriors and horses.
People don't want these fragments at all.
The main reason is that there are too many terracotta warriors and horses, and the attitude of the staff is also lazy.
Otherwise, someone can steal one."
The beauty asked back.
"That's true."
I nodded and said: "In the past, there were many badly broken ceramic fragments at the excavation site.
Although the archaeological team would collect them, and then let people try to piece them together.
If they can be pieced together, then Of course it's good, but if all of them are fragments, they can only be stored in fragments, but they have actually lost their value and can only be piled up in boxes and bags like this. " "Have you ever been to an archaeological excavation site?"
the beautiful woman asked me in surprise.
"There happens to be another ancient tomb on the mountain in my hometown.
The archaeological team hired my grandfather and my brother as guides during the excavation, so I have been in it."
What I told was the truth, but I was just avoiding the important points.
"Oh."
The beauty nodded and said, "Get this for me.
The things below may be more valuable."
I quickly took down the box of fragments.
This box must have weighed dozens of kilograms.
Then the box below was actually covered with a layer of iron sheet, and the outside of the iron sheet was nailed with small screws.
The beauty continued to open the box.
After opening the box, there was a layer of oil paper inside, which is a transparent plastic film, obviously to prevent moisture and water.
After the beauty opened the oil paper, she first took out a stack of old newspapers, which were also sealed in bags.
I glanced at it, and the news that caught my eye was that a team of archaeologists from the United States and the Shaanxi Museum jointly conducted an investigation of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, using advanced American metal detectors, sonic detectors, air analyzers and other equipment to conduct an investigation on the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. exploration.
The survey results shocked everyone.
The depth of Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum was approximately between 27 and 35 meters.
Based on our current height of three meters per floor, the depth of Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum was approximately as deep as a 12-story building.
However, this is only the height from the top of the tomb to the ground.
As for the height from the top of the tomb to the floor, it is unknown.
As for the area, it is about 40,000 square meters, which is equivalent to the area of five or six football fields put together, which shows the grandeur of the imperial mausoleum.
Looking down from the sky, the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang looks like an inverted pyramid with a vertical burial pit.
This is very similar to the style of tombs before the Warring States Period.
For mausoleums with this kind of vertical burial pit, the supporting walls of the mausoleum building must be very strong.
Otherwise, after dozens or hundreds of years, the tomb will collapse.
After the collapse, the entire tomb will be buried by the soil.
This means that most of the tombs before the Han Dynasty collapsed, and the burial objects were buried in the soil.
When they were unearthed, the soil on the exposed objects had to be brushed away bit by bit with a brush.
Of course, for tomb robbers, they have time to slowly dig out.
Before the Han Dynasty, bronze and jade were the main objects.
People before the jade basically did not steal jade.
All the gold, silver and bronze in the tomb were taken away, but the jade was left behind.
Down.
Because jade was not easy to circulate in ancient times, once the jade was taken out, people would ask for its provenance.
If it was found that it was taken from a tomb, you would be arrested directly.
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Therefore, the tomb robbers in the past would keep the jade.
For example, the jade clothes with gold threads unearthed from the tomb of Liu Sheng, Prince Jing of Zhongshan, all the gold threads were removed, but all the jade pieces remained.
But modern tomb robbers, no matter what you are, take away everything except the stuffed mouth and jade.
That's because the times are different now, and so are the national policies.
As long as the jade is good, it doesn't matter where it comes from.
Besides, if you don't accept it at home, there will naturally be a lot of people abroad who will.
However, there is another saying that if there is a soul after death, it will usually be preserved in jade, and the jade that comes out of the tomb is naturally not clean.
There is a high possibility that there is dirt left in it, which is unlucky, so Tomb robbers don't take jade.
Tomb robbers usually go to the bottom of the tomb, and time is very tight.
It usually only takes one night to go from digging the hole to taking the things away.
The time is limited.
The other is that the oxygen at the bottom of the tomb is very limited, so they have to be very careful.
The speed.
After the collapse, the surroundings were surrounded by soil.
You couldn't blindly touch around the whole coffin and grab whatever you found good like you would in a normal tomb, because the coffin also collapsed and all the funerary objects were buried in the soil.
There is a rule at this time, that is, to determine the position of the coffin.
After the orientation is confirmed, dig the soil along the left shoulder and right foot, because the ancients usually placed valuable burial objects in these two positions.
This can save time.
After digging, the things are even wrapped in soil, and even the soil is wrapped out.
As for the funerary objects room, the rules followed are East Cang and West Storehouse, which means that the funerary objects room in the east is the granary, and the grains and livestock are buried with it.
The funerary objects room in the west is the storehouse, and the funerary objects room in the west is the storehouse, and the daily utensils, such as ceramics, are buried with them.
Gold, silver, pots and pans are all basically found here.
This is also the favorite place for tomb robbers besides coffins.
Therefore, mastering the rules will not only save time, but also greatly guarantee the success rate and safety.
I shook my head and read all the American newspapers.
Through surveying and mapping, I mapped out the general appearance of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, but it was only a vague outline because the Americans did not proceed any further. .
Because they came to the conclusion that the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang cannot be excavated, and the museum came to them to help with the excavation.
Now that they came to such a conclusion, a group of people in the museum were immediately confused.
The newspaper wrote that Americans took soil for testing and found that the mercury content in the soil seriously exceeded the standard.
The deeper the soil was dug, the more serious the mercury content exceeded the standard, and some even exceeded the standard by hundreds of times.
Mercury is also the legendary mercury, and this archaeological discovery also verifies the popular saying that Qin Shi Huang used mercury to water the territory of the Qin Dynasty at that time, forming the rivers, lakes and seas in the tomb, and mercury is poisonous.
Not only is it toxic, but it is also volatile and will not be decomposed by soil.
Moreover, the mercury content in the soil near the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang exceeds the standard by hundreds of times.
It is even more difficult to imagine the content in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
The entire Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang is filled with mercury poisonous gas, and anyone who enters this way will only die.
"So the rumors are all true."
I closed the newspaper, turned to look at the beauty and said, "The legendary Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang has several major supports.
The first is the curse of the witch clan.
I think it is the living figurines.
The second is The tomb was filled with mercury, this American instrument detected Come on, the third thing is that there is a powerful army guarding the tomb.
If nothing unexpected happens, it should be the terracotta warriors and horses.
Once the curse is set, those living warriors will crawl out like zombies, let alone kill people.
It can scare a bunch of people to death.”
"No."
The beauty suddenly said: "The guarding army is not the terracotta warriors and horses, but a regular army, the Meng family army."
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"What does Meng Jiajun mean?"
I stared at the beauty with wide eyes.
"Look at this."
While speaking, the beauty handed me a thread-bound ancient book.
I took it and saw the four words on the cover, and my mouth opened wide in shock
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