N-M Chapter 392 Unearthed Cultural Relics
Chapter 392 Unearthed Cultural Relics
Chapter 392 Unearthed Cultural Relics
The history of archaeology and cultural relics protection is actually developing continuously, so some mistakes are inevitable in the case of limited early science and technology.
For example, when the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang in China were discovered, they were actually painted, but because the technology at that time was not developed enough, they could only watch those painted paintings fall off and be damaged in a short period of time.
When Sweden unearthed the Kokstad, a ninth-century Viking ship, in the early 20th century, it used alum to cook the wood in order to preserve it. As a result, the wood is now as brittle as glass.
Therefore, Ivans made a lot of mistakes in the restoration process, which seems to be a pity now, but it cannot be said that he was destroying cultural relics back then.
However, this is not to say that Ivans is completely free from mistakes. The reason why the other party carried out this kind of tampering restoration is entirely in the hope of causing a sensational effect, but this kind of thinking is definitely a taboo in archaeology and restoration work.
Because this kind of work is to restore ancient historical relics as authentically as possible, instead of taking into account other factors outside the market to make various modifications that do not match the facts.
Fortunately, Liang En naturally wouldn't make those mistakes. During the two days of excavation, in addition to unearthing the first snake goddess, he also unearthed with his memory and the other two [Detection (N)] cards. Several representative items.
The first of these is another famous statue of a snake goddess with arms stretched obliquely forward.It is also different from the complete statue in his impression.This statue only has a head, a hat, a body and a right hand. Obviously, this thing has also been repaired indiscriminately.
In addition to the two unusually famous statues in Liang En's impression, there are dozens of broken statues in the two pits that look identical .
Judging from the location of these two pits and the contents inside, this should be a facility for dealing with damaged statues. After all, in the era of belief in gods, even if the statues were damaged, they could not be thrown around.
Judging from the current situation, the people at that time should put the broken statues into the pit and then perform the sacrificial ceremony to permanently seal the pits, and the jewels discovered before were the sacrifices of the ceremony.
At the same time, the two pits and the contents in the pits also indirectly indicate that a large building around it should be a religious building at that time, which is very beneficial to the subsequent excavation work.
In addition to the statue, Liang En also used cards to find a bull's head-shaped horn cup with a height of about 20cm in a small palace in the core area. Amazingly, this thing was almost perfectly preserved.
The whole cup is carved from a whole piece of black steatite, and the eyes of the bull are made of crystal and jasper, and the mouth of the bull is decorated with white shells, and the nose of the bull is made of a piece of black serpentine. It looks like it's blocking the exit.
Judging from the traces left on the soil where the cup was excavated, there should have been a wooden gold-covered horn in the cup, but unfortunately, the long time has destroyed the organic matter inside, and only the severely deformed and damaged gold leaf remains in the soil. middle.
To be honest, the structure and appearance of this cup looks very similar to the famous Lyton cup of later generations, which proves a certain continuity of civilization in the Eastern Mediterranean from one aspect.
The last one discovered by the card is located in a small house next to the main building, which contains hundreds of clay tablets engraved with words, and the words used on them should be the famous Cretan clay tablets.
There are some black humus around the excavation point, indicating that these things should have been placed on the shelf before, but the shelf was destroyed later, and these things were buried under the thick soil.
Minoan clay tablet collective term for all locally found inscribed clay tablets, the first of which date back to between 2000 BC and 650 BC.
The clay tablets of a later age appeared between 1750 BC and 1450 BC. This group of characters is called "Linear Character A" in another world.
In addition, there is another linear script of unknown age that is obviously different from "Linear Script A" and has replaced "Linear Script A", which Evans calls "Linear Script B".
According to Liang En's memory, most of the clay tablets of linear script A among these clay tablets are broken pieces, so this small pile of clay tablets should be the linear script B brought by the conquerors of Mycenaean later.
For Liang En, it was obviously very meaningful to decipher this lost ancient script, so after finding this pile of clay tablets, he paused his search, and then used the waiting time to study these linear script B.
According to what he remembered, Linear B was actually the Mycenaeans using the Linear A alphabet used by the Minoans to write their own language.
This practice is basically impossible for civilizations that use hieroglyphics, but is very common for civilizations that use alphabetic writing.
For example, almost every country in Western and Southern Europe now has its own language, but the letters they use are all evolved from the Latin alphabet.
Liang En knew ancient Greek, and his mastery of modern Greek was no less than that of those whose mother tongue was Greek.Therefore, he can completely translate this kind of text through the knowledge he has mastered and the power of the card.
So he simply started to translate directly in the tent on the mountain where the excavated things were stored. , and at the same time let Fan Meng and Joan of Arc arrange the guard work to prevent these things from disappearing inexplicably.
So when the Greek archaeological department arrived one day late, they found that there were several holes dug out on the hill, guarded around the holes, and a man with a pistol hanging from his waist at the door of a small tent. The burly man stared around.
When these people from the Greek archaeological department proved their identities and walked into the tent, they found that Liang En was thinking hard about the photos of a pile of clay tablets on the computer, and writing something in his notebook from time to time.
"Sorry, I'm researching these things to see if I can translate these texts that haven't been translated yet. I didn't notice you." The staff who entered the tent woke up Liang En, so he immediately greeted each other.
"It's us who should say sorry." A leading staff member embarrassedly explained the reason for releasing Liang En's pigeons, "Because a large stone sculpture was recently discovered in the bay, we can't get anyone out for the time being, and today is also a temporary The people who come together come over."
"No wonder you are so young. You probably didn't read the information I sent you at all." Liang En shook his head helplessly, and then showed the things he had dug up before.
As items and information were displayed, the expressions of the two staff members became more and more serious. Soon, they took out their mobile phones to call their superiors for support.
It turned out that these two people really thought that what Liang En found was just a ruins of an ancient Greco-Roman villa, so they were so shocked after seeing these few cultural relics found and the ruins of a palace covering an area of two hectares measured by ground-penetrating radar. .
After that, things finally got on the right track. Only half an hour later, more than 30 staff members came to this place to take over the local work, and then discussed a series of issues related to the ruins with Liang En.
It is obviously history that the Easter Egg Badge of the Snake Goddess was released and whether it has passed the review.
(End of this chapter)