What tools do archaeologists usually use when excavating ancient tombs?

Archaeological work will use many archaeological tools, because according to the types of ancient tombs, the archaeological tools to be used are also different. Archaeological tools commonly used include excavators, shovels, Luoyang shovels, small shovels, small brushes and so on. There are also a series of tools to clean up the soil. First of all, after discovering the ancient tomb, the archaeological team will use Luoyang shovel to find out how deep the ancient tomb is under the soil, and then they will use a large excavator to dig out the sealed soil above the ancient tomb, so that the door or tomb of the ancient tomb will be revealed. Only by using this large excavator can we develop the location of ancient tombs more efficiently.

After digging out the ancient tomb, members of the archaeological team will dig out the soil next to it bit by bit with shovels to prevent the bricks of the ancient tomb or surrounding buildings from being damaged when digging with large excavators. The members of the archaeological team will open the tomb door after cleaning the soil outside the tomb. There are many kinds of tomb gates, but the most common one is the plate-shaped stone gate. According to the size and thickness of the tomb door, the archaeological team will choose to use blasting or manual prying. After entering the forest, archaeologists will look forward to lighting the tomb in the tomb to understand the situation of each tomb.

After finding out the situation and types of ancient tombs, they will start to protect cultural relics and excavate them. They will dig these cultural relics out of the soil bit by bit with small shovels and brushes. This kind of work often lasts for several months or half a year. Archaeological work is generally slow, because these cultural relics have been in ancient tombs for thousands of years and are very easy to be destroyed, so their movements are very light. In case these cultural relics are damaged due to excessive hand strength.

First, they used a small shovel to shovel off some large pieces of soil on the edge of cultural relics. If they skim the soil off the surface of cultural relics bit by bit with a shuttle like sawdust, they will also wash the surface of cultural relics with clear water. After seeing the whole cultural relics, they will look at the damage of cultural relics. Choose holistic mining or distributed mining. Archaeological work is a very boring job, and ordinary people are not qualified for this kind of work, but the cultural relics excavated by archaeologists will undoubtedly not surprise us once they come out. Because after their excavation and restoration, those antiquities that have been immersed in the ground for thousands of years can be seen again.