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inside the laboratory.

Hearing what Academician Pan said.

On the faces of Weng Tong and Tong Huaijun, there was an extremely strong astonishment.

Students who have been dug out of Sanxingdui should know it.

As a symbol of ancient Shu civilization, there are currently 8 sacrificial pits in Sanxingdui.

These sacrificial pits are not large, but tens of thousands of cultural relics have been unearthed.

Among them, sacrificial pits No. 1 and No. 2 were excavated in 1986.

Pit Nos. 3 to 8 were newly discovered in 2020.

Up to now.

Except for Pit No. 8.

The remaining seven pits have almost all been excavated, and many shocking results have been produced.

For example, the half-piece gold mask that was previously searched was unearthed in Pit No. 5.

A wooden box with a length of 170cm, a width of 60cm, and a height of 40cm was unearthed in Pit No. 6, or a coffin.

Pit No. 8 is still in the final stage, and a total of more than 6,000 artifacts have been excavated. By the way, the reporter from CCTV13 fell into Pit No. 8.

However, compared with the entire ruins of Sanxingdui, these eight sacrificial pits are only a very small part of the area.

Today, a total of 37 excavations have been carried out at the Sanxingdui site, and the excavated area is actually less than 20,000 square meters.

The Sanxingdui site has a total distribution area of ​​12 square kilometers, and the current excavated area only accounts for two-thousandth of the total area.

So one thing is for sure.

That is, in the entire Sanxingdui ruins, there must be other undiscovered sacrificial pits, and even a larger Baoxue area.

It's just a pity.

In Sanxingdui, due to the geological conditions and the existence of various small object fragments in the soil layer, the efficiency of remote sensing detection in Sanxingdui is very low—the ash layer is the most influential.

What is the ash layer?

first.

It is not difficult to see from the name of the sacrificial pit that there are many traces of sacrificial offerings in Sanxingdui.

And sacrifices must use fire. After the fire is burned, the soil layer accumulated together with the utensils is the ash layer.

Therefore, during the archaeological process of Sanxingdui, the efficiency of remote sensing detection was very low.

The more common detection methods are hyperspectral imaging technology, laser Raman spectroscopy, and ultra-depth-of-field microscopy.

According to what Academician Pan said.

Their gravity gradiometer can actually detect the internal conditions of Sanxingdui and discover two brand new sacrificial pits?

Think here.

Weng Tong couldn't help but looked up at Academician Pan, and asked directly:

"Academician Pan, can I make a call?"

Academician Pan nodded readily, and made a gesture of invitation:

"sure."

Hearing this, Weng Tong immediately put down the report in his hand and took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket.

Then, in front of Academician Pan, he dialed a number.

After a while.

The phone connects.

A voice with an obvious Sichuan accent sounded:

"Hello? Which one?"

Weng Tong coughed lightly:

"Old Chen, it's me, Weng Tong."

at the same time.

Tong Huaijun on the side approached Academician Pan and Xu Yun, and introduced the identity of the caller in a low voice:

"Academician Pan, Dr. Xu, the old man contacted Professor Chen Qianqian from the Department of Archeology of Sichuan University."

"Professor Chen is a very authoritative archaeologist in China, and he is also the general director of the excavation project of No. 7 and No. 8 pits in Sanxingdui."

Academician Pan nodded slightly.

Although he has never had contact with Chen Xiangqian himself, he has heard of the other person's name, and he is also a bigwig in the industry.

And at the same time Tong Huaijun was introducing, Weng Tong also finished greeting Chen Xiangqian:

"Old Chen, let me ask you something—has a new sacrificial pit been found in Sanxingdui?"

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I heard this.

Chen Xiangqian, who was still muttering about finding Weng Tong to play mahjong on the phone, was silent for a long time before slowly saying:

"Sacrifice pit? Old man, this"

Seeing the other party's faltering, Weng Tong glanced at Academician Pan next to him, and added:

"Old Chen, I'm at the University of Science and Technology of China right now, with Academician Pan standing beside me—he told me the news, so whether there is or not, you can just say it."

The person on the phone continued to be silent for a few seconds before Chen Xiangqian's voice came:

"...That's right, the news is true, but I don't know much about the deeper situation."

"It was about two or three o'clock in the afternoon the day before yesterday. The construction site received a notice of martial law on the site, saying that a round of soil structure exploration was going to be carried out, and all staff were required to leave the site."

"I was still in Rongcheng at the time, and Xiao Zhao was in charge of this matter. I thought, since it was a notice from above, I asked him to do it - after all, there have been such things in the past."

"As a result, he called me back an hour later, saying that the exploration was over, and two brand new sacrificial pits were found in the report."

Speaking of this, Chen Xiangqian couldn't help raising his tone a bit:

"I didn't believe it at first. I've been in Sanxingdui for 23 years, and last year's remote sensing survey couldn't find anything."

"But after I rushed back to the construction site, I took everyone to conduct a simple round of soil layer orientation—especially the sampling and analysis of the ash layer. The result"

Chen Xiangqian paused. Although thousands of kilometers away, Weng Tong could still hear the deep shock in his words:

"The results show that these two sacrificial pits do exist, and the distribution of shallow objects is completely consistent with the detection results!"

"What's more important is that the scale of these two sacrificial pits is much larger than the original eight pits, and they are likely to be the chief sacrificial pit!"

Hearing Chen Xiangqian's last words, Weng Tong's breathing stopped suddenly.

The construction site Weng Tong mentioned naturally refers to the archaeological site of the Sanxingdui ruins, which is an idiom in the industry.

Although Sanxingdui has stopped large-scale excavation, the entire site still maintains a relatively basic daily operation, which is somewhat similar to the No. 1 and No. 2 pits of the Terracotta Army.

For example, the directional analysis of the soil layer mentioned by Chen Xiangqian, the relevant equipment of this technology is on standby all year round.

And according to what Chen Xiangqian said.

If these two new pits are really the officiant pits, then the fun will be great.

Because this involves a very important issue.

Sanxingdui text!

At present, there are tens of thousands of cultural relics unearthed in Sanxingdui, but no text has been found.

As for the text, it is also a standard configuration of 'civilization'.

Therefore, the existence or non-existence of Sanxingdui characters has always been a hot topic of controversy.

Some people think that the lack of characters in Sanxingdui is a matter of age, and some people think that Sanxingdui is a graphic text.

Others believe that this is related to the carrier of the text, and the carrier of the text has a decisive effect on whether it can be discovered.

For example, the earliest mature characters discovered by Huaxia are oracle bone inscriptions. Its carrier is oracle bone, which is relatively easy to preserve, so it can be discovered by later generations.

Sumerian cuneiform writing was inscribed on clay tablets and is also easily preserved.

If the characters of Sanxingdui were engraved on perishable materials such as bamboo and wood, it would not be easy to be preserved.

In addition, the degree of excavation of Sanxingdui is far from high, and it is normal that the text cannot be found.

Therefore, many archaeologists, including Chen Xiangqian contacted by Weng Tong, are looking for a theoretically possible pit for the chief sacrifice that is larger and deeper than the current eight pits.

Perhaps in that priest pit, they can find the answer they want.

After all, such an archaeological miracle as Mrs. Xin Zhui can be discovered, and it is not impossible to preserve well-preserved bamboo and wood.

Of course.

Weng Tong's research direction is mainly in the Ming Dynasty, and he is not very interested in the study of this partial prehistoric civilization.

Therefore, what really surprised him was not the officiant pit, but the

What Academician Pan said was actually true!

They really have the ability to detect what's going on beneath the ground!

Although the pits in Sanxingdui are small in size and less than two meters deep, due to the ash layer and soil debris, the difficulty of detection must be at least ten times higher!

This is really not an exaggeration. For example, the paper 10.13466/j.cnki.lyzygl.2018.05.017 mentioned in detail the impact of the ash layer on remote sensing detection.

In other words.

It is theoretically feasible for a device that can detect the main sacrifice pit of the Sanxingdui ruins to detect the Yongling Underground Palace.

Think here.

The words he said to the students came to Weng Tong's mind again:

If the internal structure of Yongling Mausoleum can be clearly detected, then he will go to the ax on the spot. Wrong, wrong, then the opening time of Yongling Mausoleum can be shortened to a limit!

If the engineers from two design institutes were sacrificed to heaven, it might even be shortened to less than a week!

Gollum—

Weng Tong swallowed heavily, and looked at Academician Pan again:

"Academician Pan, I won't ask too much about how this technology was broken through. Judging from this posture, it must involve some things that are inconvenient to talk about."

"So now I just have one question. What do you want me or Jinling University to do?"

Academician Pan and Xu Yun looked at each other when he heard the words, and then gave Xu Yun a condescending look.

Xu Yun nodded knowingly, took a step forward, and said to Weng Tong:

"Uncle Weng, you are an expert in archaeology in the Ming Dynasty, so you should also know about the University of Science and Technology, Mr. Guo, and the incident in Dingling."

"So this time, the University of Science and Technology hopes to 'invest' in this gravity gradiometer in exchange for a qualification to participate in the project."

"In addition, we don't want to be just an equipment supplier, but we hope to participate in the project in an all-round way like Jinling University."

"After all, it's been more than sixty years. Some things should be settled."

Xu Yun came forward to negotiate with Weng Tong, which was what Academician Pan and Xu Yun had agreed in advance.

Regardless of the fact that USTC is backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, a standard C9 institution, it is extremely glamorous in the field of scientific research.

But as the saying goes, every other line is like a mountain.

The excavation of the Yongling Mausoleum has nothing to do with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It belongs to the scope of the Archaeological Research Center. Above the Archaeological Research Center is the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are equivalent in terms of positions, and they belong to two completely different systems.

Therefore, if the University of Science and Technology wanted to participate in it, it would not be too difficult—otherwise Xu Yun would not have rejected Li Hua's kindness before.

But it's not that easy.

So after much discussion, the University of Science and Technology decided to start with Weng Tong.

Weng Tong is a senior professor at Jinling University and a well-known scholar in the Ming Dynasty in China. He has been thinking about the Yongling excavation even since ten years ago.

Although Weng Tong is not the initiator of this project, he is also one of the few initiators.

If Dong Wengtong can be said to come forward, and HKUST itself exerts some force, this matter should be almost settled.

And Huaxia has a commonly used term when entrusting people to do things, which is called "in terms of emotion and reason".

Now that the University of Science and Technology is taking the lead, Xu Yun can fill in the 'feeling' - of course, considering some of the more sensitive students, here is an extra word, this love has nothing to do with love, it refers to the affection of the parents.

Therefore, the job of lobbyist this time still fell on Xu Yun.

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Looking at Academician Pan and Xu Yun in front of him, Weng Tong glanced at the test report in his hand again.

Although he has not witnessed the effect of this device with his own eyes, the discovery at Sanxingdui and the University of Science and Technology's own brand are still highly credible.

More critically.

Up to now, the entire Yongling excavation project has indeed not found a suitable remote sensing detection agency.

Originally, Weng Tong’s idea was to select a suitable object among the top domestic remote sensing universities such as Wuhan University, Mining University, Yenching University and Tongji University, and slowly carry out remote sensing detection. It took half a year to detect some nodes clearly. The real focus is on mining solutions.

After all, although remote sensing is not good, as long as we make plans for various possible scenarios, or even come up with exhaustive methods, the actual effect will be the same.

Just didn't expect it.

Today's University of Science and Technology actually gave him such a big surprise?

Think here.

Weng Tong couldn't help turning his head to look at Tong Huaijun at the side, and nodded after making a simple eye contact:

"No problem, Academician Pan, please prepare the materials, I am willing to be the middleman."

"Yongling. Can't wait any longer!"

Note:

As a result of the blind date, the other party was a kindergarten teacher, had dinner and watched a movie, and the gold coins were -464.

Preliminary conclusion: I still prefer my dear readers.

In addition, the premise of the update that I said is not up to the standard is that the monthly ticket on the 7th breaks 2000, and it is only 1400 now, everyone.

The explosion will start tomorrow, and the eight thousand characters will start first! ! !