Chapter 1190 – Valuable Coffin

“Heroic in life, and jingoistic in death, Genghis Khan did not dishonor his great reputation.”

Looking at the tomb room that was not very large but gave off a feeling of grandeur, Professor Meng couldn’t help but feel emotional.

Although the entire chamber is not paved with gold, but that a welcome atmosphere, but people really feel the great emperor’s ten thousand lofty feelings.

Genghis Khan’s life in the south and north, a lifetime of unbeaten, the four seas show martial arts, after death also hung the longbow on the wall, a different kind of grassland grandeur, rose in the hearts of the people.

“Isfahan carpet, God, such a big one, how to weave it? And how was it preserved, huh?”

Dr. Ren’s voice, suddenly resounded in the chamber, interrupting the crowd’s reminiscence, and also drew Zhuang Rui and the others’ gaze to the carpet padded underneath the coffin in the middle of the chamber.

This piece of carpet not only carries all the area of the huge coffin, but also extends outward for a long time, covering an area of 15 or 16 square meters in size.

This kind of fusion of wool, cotton, silk, gold and silver silk and other materials of the carpet, by the vertical line, horizontal line and diagonal diagonal line composition, repeat the formation of the center pattern, looks exceptionally atmospheric and gorgeous.

Although Zhuang Rui studied archaeology, but his industry can be all and antiques related, for this kind of Persian carpet from the Sui and Tang dynasties into China is not strange. At that moment, he opened his mouth and asked, “Brother Ren, is this the origin of Persian carpet, Isfahan carpet?”

“Yes, it must be, how on earth did this …… this get preserved?”

During Dr. Ren’s doctoral studies, his main research was on the formation of the Silk Road, its far-reaching impact on the Tang Dynasty as well as the rest of the world, and as one of the most famous commodities on the Silk Road – the Persian carpet – Ren Chunqiang had also had a rather in-depth study.

The city of Isfahan is located in the Iranian Plateau at an altitude of 1,600 meters, and is an ancient city with a long history of culture.

The best carpets in the world come from Isfahan and are used in Persian royal palaces, European royal families, the Holy See and the aristocracy, either laid on the floor or hung on the wall like precious oil paintings.

The fame of Persian carpets today is largely attributed to Isfahan, where the best Kolker wool in the world is used to weave in the warp and weft of silk, which is still considered to be the best Persian carpet in the world.

The preservation life of general carpets is only two or three hundred years at most, and to this day, Isfahan carpets from the 16th and 17th centuries are extremely rare.

In last year’s auction in Britain, a piece of the length and width of only sixty by eighty centimeters of the Isfahan carpet, was shot at a high price of six million U.S. dollars.

It can be imagined that such a large piece of carpet inside the tomb, if it is displayed, how will it bring a kind of shock to the international collection world?

“Alright, Ren, you’re in charge of handling this carpet, the others will do the antiseptic treatment on these weapons first, and the coffin will be put at the end.”

Professor Meng was a little unimpressed by Dr. Ren’s loss of temper, the items inside this chamber, the value of any one of them would not be lower than this piece of carpet, the reason why he did not support Ren Chunqiang like cultivating Zhuang Rui was because his own disciple, his eyesight was not open enough.

After hearing Professor Meng’s instructions, the people were busy, these gold and silver inside the tomb especially iron, after sealing for thousands of years, the probability of oxidation is very high, now looking sharp, may be once taken out of the tomb, it will become rusty.

Zhuang Rui walked to the weapon rack, reached out and took a saber whose sheath had already rotted in his hand, as early as when observing this chamber with his aura, Zhuang Rui noticed that the aura contained within this saber was extremely thick.

This is a typical Mongolian early saber, the blade is thinner than the modern military saber, only about two fingers wide, the weight is also lighter, the lines are very smooth, the hilt is slightly curved towards the direction of the blade, so that the hilt with the curvature is more conducive to the rider’s control, it is not easy to take off the hand.

“Xiao Zhuang, come, try the knife ……”

Professor Meng saw Zhuang Rui lovingly playing with the saber, couldn’t help but smile, took out a stack of kraft paper used for wrapping artifacts and put it on the ground in front of Zhuang Rui.

“Good, let’s see the weapon used by Genghis Khan, how does it compare to my timbered sword?”

Zhuang Rui promised, carefully using his gloved right hand, he held the handle of the saber, although the saber’s original wooden handle inlaid with various jewels had already decayed, there was still an iron bar mounted handle present.

“Ho!”

Zhuang Rui let out a muffled cry from his mouth, and with his right hand, he raised the saber high above his head and viciously slashed at the kraft paper that was stacked high on the ground.

“Clang ……”

The sharp blade flashed an arc in the light, silently slicing into the kraft paper, and then due to inertia, it chopped into the ground again with a crunching sound.

“Holy shit, so fast ah?”

Zhuang Rui did not expect this saber to be so fast, hastily pulled the knife out of the pile of paper, saw that the blade was not broken, and only then breathed a sigh of relief, if the cultural relics were damaged as a result of this experiment, it would be an extremely serious archaeological accident.

“A divine weapon, a true divine weapon!”

The people in the crypt hadn’t come back to their senses from this scene, and in the command headquarters a hundred meters above the head of Zhuang Rui and the others, an old man shouted out with his hands in the air, his expression was extremely excited.

To know, the ancient smelting technology of iron and steel, compared to modern times to lag behind a lot, but I do not know why, from the ancient times handed down many weapons, are extremely sharp and not corroded, in the end mixed with what substances, even with modern technology can not be known.

However, such a divine weapon unearthed very little, like Zhuang Rui’s stereoscopic sword that, even if there is, but also can only do some optical testing, it is impossible to give these experts long-term research, so there has been a lack of related research items.

This old man is an expert in the study of ancient cold weapons, right now, when he saw that a thousand year old weapon can still be so sharp, he was excited, and he could not wait to put his hand into the screen and grab that saber out.

Prof. Meng heard the shouts of the command in the earphone, and couldn’t help but smile and say, “Old Li, be quiet, don’t be impatient, with so many weapons, there’s something for you to study.”

Other than that, just from the carpets and weapons inside this chamber, one could tell that all the items placed here were not the highest peak of world craftsmanship that could be achieved in Genghis Khan’s era at that time.

I am afraid that every item here is a rare and precious one-of-a-kind item, the so-called one-of-a-kind item means that there is not another one of the same object in this world.

After witnessing the sharpness of the millennium saber, the staff in the tomb are also very excited, but in the maintenance of these artifacts when organizing, the hand is more and more gentle, because a careless, perhaps hundreds of millions of objects were damaged.

After more than five hours of busy, the tomb placed in the outside of the artifacts, have done the antiseptic treatment, is that exposed outside the coffin carpet, but also by Dr. Ren lying on the ground carefully to the maintenance up.

Seeing that everyone was exhausted, Prof. Meng clapped his hands and said, “Alright, let’s all take a rest first, these items will be kept in the chamber for the time being, and then transported outside after the coffin is opened.”

Zhuang Rui walked over to Professor Meng who was standing in front of that huge coffin and asked, “Teacher, ready to open the coffin? This big guy is not very good to open.”

This coffin plus the foundation, up to two meters one or two, standing on the ground, simply can not be opened, must set up a ladder from several directions at the same time force, in order to uncover the coffin lid to open.

But this has to have a premise, is the need to find the coffin mortise and tenon joints, just now Professor Meng has been in front of the coffin observation, is to judge the coffin mortise and tenon position.

“Well, it should be about the same.”

Prof. Meng nodded, pointing to the head and tail of the coffin said: “There are eight mortise and tenon dowels, but this combination is completely no gap, the crowbar simply can not be inserted, I’m afraid that the coffin will be damaged, alas, it is a pity that this good gold nanmu.”

Look at this hard as iron, beautiful shape, in the light under the silk of the coffin, Professor Meng can not stop shaking his head, alone is the coffin plate, that are worth millions of precious cultural relics.

To know, the gold nanmu corrosion-resistant insect, winter touch is not cold, the texture is warm and soft, the texture is delicate through, has always been the royal supplies, like the Yonghe Palace in Beijing, the gold nanmu Buddha niche, is one of the three treasures of the Palace.

Is that the famous ten full old man qianlong master, also once in the gold nanmu left a bad reputation, when qianlong fancy mingling mausoleum gold nanmu, so to repair mingling mausoleum as a cover, demolition of good material to build their own longevity mausoleum.

Historical materials do have records, Qianlong repaired the Ming Tombs, and transported back, including the gold nanmu, including a large number of Ming Tombs materials, Zhuang Rui in the tour of the Qing Dynasty Emperor’s mausoleum, have seen with their own eyes, in the Qing Mausoleum building materials contain a large number of Ming Dynasty gold nanmu.

Because the golden nanmu was on the verge of extinction at the end of the Ming Dynasty, nowadays you can’t see any new wood on the market at all, even if there is, they are all old objects that can be called antiques, so the value on the market right now is no less than that of the small-leaf sandalwood furniture.

“Teacher, this chamber has been open for a long time, I see, it’s better to open the coffin?”

If put in the unusual time, Zhuang Rui may also feel pity for these gold nanmu, but think about the crystal coffin inside the coffin as well as that party carrying the imperial culture of China for several years of the heirloom jade seal, even if it is the use of sophisticated materials to the coffin as a whole to demolition, Zhuang Rui will not be heartbroken.

“Good, prepare to open the coffin.”

Prof. Meng was also decisive, relatively speaking, the protection of this archaeological excavation was already done to the extreme, a slight loss was also within tolerance.