Because the funerary objects are stacked on top of each other, the funerary objects in the coffin must not be moved casually.

The previous jade seal was also at the top and most of it was exposed. Only a little bit was buried in the mud, so Kong Jianwen pulled it out.

No one touched other cultural relics, including the exposed jade.

Before the official extraction, X-rays must be used to scan the cultural relics in the coffin to understand the overlapping situation, and then formulate a corresponding extraction plan to minimize damage.

Not only X-ray scanning, but also three-dimensional photography, conventional photography, original large-scale drawing, high technology and old methods all came into use.

In fact, during the first three days after the coffin was opened, there was no movement of the cultural relics inside the coffin.

Instead, it was constantly exposed to various modern instruments, covered with a layer of plastic sheet, and drawn manually.

After several days of surveying, the parameters obtained were not satisfactory.

The stacking of funerary objects in the coffin is far more complicated than imagined.

There is no precedent for even extracting the coffin stack under such a complicated situation!

After putting on his white coat and following Kong Jianwen's instructions, Chen Han placed the flipped coffin lid next to the inner coffin.

This is to have a reference to each other when extracting.

Because the coffin lid has been covering the coffin for too long, there are already traces and outlines of the first layer of objects embedded in the coffin on the lid.

It's like a copied picture of the objects inside the coffin.

It can be used as a "reference picture" when extracting cultural relics!

After having this comparison object, the archaeologists finally began to extract cultural relics from the inner coffin.

First, there are the jade stones exposed on the top layer.

These jade stones are the least affected by lamination.

Because they are on the top level, they only have a share over other cultural relics, and no other cultural relics have a share against them.

And because the jade bi is a very flat and round jade, even if there are many other cultural relics stacked underneath, it will not be easily connected or nested with other cultural relics without grooves and corners.

It is relatively easy to extract.

After extracting these jade pieces, the extraction inside the coffin came to an end for the time being.

Because apart from these jade bis, other cultural relics have a serious overlapping relationship with each other.

In contrast, on the coffin lid, the cultural relics embedded in the coffin lid due to extrusion have no overlapping effect at all.

Therefore, the next step is to extract the embedded cultural relics on the coffin lid plate.

The first thing to be extracted was a pile of scattered gold foil. The large ones were as big as broad beans and the small ones were no bigger than rice grains.

These gold foils may be related to the gilded artifacts buried with the tomb owner.

During the Western Han Dynasty, inlaying gold and silver on some lacquered wood and bronze vessels was a common decorative practice.

Among them, a large amount of gold foil is used to inlay on the utensils.

The gold foil on the coffin lid is probably the gold foil on some funerary objects.

In addition to the gold foil, there is more mud attached to the coffin lid.

There is a lot of this silt inside the coffin.

Chen Han suspected that the mud might be the remains of the rotten silk fabrics in the original coffin...

It exudes a strange smell that can't be described, but it doesn't smell very good anyway.

In addition to these silts, there is one cultural relic that attracts most of the attention.

That is a bronze box hidden deep inside the coffin lid.

This box should have been originally placed in the head box.

Just because the coffin collapsed, the collapsed coffin lid pressed against the bronze box. Over time, the bronze box became deeply embedded in the coffin lid.

As the archaeologists opened the coffin, the bronze box also left the coffin along with the coffin lid.

Bronze box inside the head box.

This keyword makes it hard not to think of whether the tomb owner’s seal is the seal of the Marquis of Haihun or the seal of the King of Changyi.

After all, the things usually placed solemnly in the head box are most likely the most important items for the tomb owner.

In the tomb of the King of Nanyue, the Seal of Emperor Wu of Nanyue was found in the head box!

Even this bronze box, even if it is made of bronze, has been severely damaged after being pressed by the coffin lid for thousands of years.

Moreover, it is inserted deep into the coffin lid and is difficult to remove.

Chen Han thought he couldn't do this kind of work.

In fact, among all the archaeologists present, only Kong Jianwen and Professor Li were confident that they could extract it intact.

Even Director Wen of the Jiangxi Institute is not at this level.

Kong Jianwen, who has been engaged in archaeological work for more than 30 years, went into battle himself and began to carefully peel off the bronze box.

While peeling it off, he did not forget to teach the students: "Our tombs from different periods in China, the coffin remains inside, and the burial conditions may be different."

"It can be said that there is no fixed format and no fixed routine."

"Therefore, when extracting cultural relics, the excavation status is also diverse and cannot be copied from the book. It is impossible to find an excavation plan that can be copied from a book."

"Faced with these complex and ever-changing excavation situations, what we as archaeologists can do is use our own experience to find targeted ways to overcome them."

"For cultural relics like this, the bronze box must not be damaged and the coffin must not be damaged when extracting it. It is an extremely complicated situation."

"We can only use bamboo strips to insert into the gap between the bronze box and the coffin little by little, move it gently in millimeters, and use friction to create a gap between the cultural relics and the coffin."

"Speaking of it, it's actually pretty much the same as a doctor doing a surgical operation. It just requires separation of bone and flesh without damaging the bones or destroying the muscle tissue."

"This is a job that requires patience and temper!"

Kong Jianwen spoke very seriously, and Chen Han and the others also listened very seriously.

But Chen Han never expected that the "grinding one's temper" as Kong Jianwen said would actually take so long!

It took four days to polish off the bronze box.

It is really ground down bit by bit with bamboo strips in millimeters!

This was the first time that Chen Han clearly felt that archeology is really a very patient and time-consuming thing.

But anyway, the box was finally taken out.

A box made of bronze is obviously not simple.

What did Liu He use it to hold more than two thousand years ago?

Will the gold seal be in this box?

The box body is made of metal, the lid is made of wood, and the lid is covered with gold foil. What exactly will be inside?

After being sent to the rear laboratory, Kong Jianwen couldn't wait to open the blind box with tweezers.

Chen Han and others all gathered behind him, watching his movements nervously and expectantly.

Opening a blind box or something is the most exciting!

The same movement was light and slow, and after peeling off the wood pieces bit by bit, the lid was finally lifted.

The broken jade pieces caught everyone's eyes.
Chapter completed!