Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 343 The Templar File
Because the main body of the container is a glass bottle, even if the quality of the glass bottle is not particularly good, and the glass itself is not particularly transparent due to long-term oxidation, you can still see what is in the bottle.

"This seems to be—rolled gold leaf?" After looking up, Liang En confirmed that the bottle contained some gold leaf, and at the same time, there seemed to be some words engraved on the gold leaf.

Obviously, this should be some information recorded in gold leaf.Since these bottles could not be opened for the time being, Liang En simply cleaned up the silver-covered lid and bottom of the bottle. As a result, after cleaning the dirt on the lid, he found a relief on the lid.

This relief depicts two knights in full armor with spears and a shield with a painted cross on a horse, surrounded by the text: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici
The text in this circle is Latin, and when translated it means, The Order of the Poor Knights of the Temple of Christ and Solomon.The coat of arms with two knights on one horse is also a symbol of poverty.

It's just that this picture has obvious irony from now on, because the Knights Templar later became the largest financial institution in Europe at that time, and the members of the Knights also successfully got rid of poverty.

It is a pity that these wealth have fascinated their eyes, making them not choose to open up their own country like the Knights of the Hospital or the Teutonic Knights.

So much so that it was taken over by the French king in the end, and the accumulated wealth can be regarded as a wedding dress for others, so that the most powerful knight order of the year finally disappeared into history.

Instead, one of the other two knight orders became the first pioneer of modern Germany, and the other first ruled Malta.Then it was retained until now it has become a well-known charitable organization.

Because the size of these bottles was very uniform and they were placed very neatly, Liang En and the others quickly reassured the two jars that there were a total of 156 identical bottles filled with gold leaf.

"What do you think will be recorded here?" Joan of Arc also took out a bottle from it and put it in front of her eyes, then looked at the gold leaf inside with a curious look.

"It should be some secret files belonging to the Knights Templar." Liang En turned over the bottle in his hand, and then pointed to the engraved words on the bottom of the bottle.

"Look at the bottom of this bottle is a map of Solomon's Temple. Considering that the headquarters of the Knights Templar was on the site of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, it is very likely that this is a batch of internal materials of the Knights Templar."

"I'm writing a map of water sources in the Levant." After hearing Liang En's words, Joan also turned over the bottle in her hand to clean up the debris at the bottom of the bottle, and then read the text on it .

Next, Liang En and the others randomly picked out a few more bottles, and found that these bottles were almost exactly the same, all of which were gold leaf rolls with engraved words.

"It seems that what we dug up this time should be the archives of the Templars." Looking at the two gold-plated jars, Liang En roughly made a judgment. At this moment, four cards appeared in Liang En's mind. confirmed his inference.

But when you think about it, those remnants of the Knights Templar were indeed a little embarrassed when they ran away. It is possible to run away with some core documents, but it is too difficult to carry a large amount of money.

After all, it is very convenient to carry whether it is paper or parchment, a box can hold a lot of running, but at that time the wealth is all gold and silver, and it is definitely a difficult way to carry it.

In particular, the reason why the King of France was eyeing the Knights Templar had a lot to do with the wealth owned by the Knights. In this case, it is much more difficult to run away with wealth than with documents.

Although in terms of economic value, the combined weight of these gold foils is not too much, and it is not worth too much money based on the price of gold.But this information is very useful in reconstructing that period of history related to the Templars.

In fact, if Liang En hadn't seen that one of the piles of cards he got was related to this pile of documents, he would definitely open the jars to check the contents out of his curiosity.

"What should we do next? Shall we notify the local archaeological department as usual?" After confirming that there were no other things buried around, Joan looked up at Liang En and said.

"Notifications must be notified. After all, we are not the kind of cultural relics robbers, but we can notify a little more institutions. In addition to the local archaeological institutions, we can also consider other institutions." Liang En showed a smile.

Although it is said that the Knights Templar completely disappeared during the attack on the King of France, there are now many organizations operating under the banner of the descendants of the Knights Templar.

Therefore, in order to prevent some people from interfering with the progress of the archaeological work for their own benefit, Liang En felt that it was necessary for him to pass on the discovery information as soon as possible.

Fortunately, since those who snatch benefits under the banner of the Templar Knights are often not really well-established organizations, so as long as the news is passed on, these guys probably won't be able to cause any obstacles at all.

So Liang En made a bunch of phone calls in one breath, and then sat on the edge of two jars with Joan of Arc and waited, because the other party told Liang En on the phone that support would arrive soon.

Because he had mentioned the size and weight of these things on the phone, Liang En felt that the local archaeological institution would probably send out one or several vehicles to take this pile of things away.

Unexpectedly, after waiting for more than half an hour, a helicopter flew from a distance to the previous village and dropped off a team, and then it took more than 20 minutes to arrive at the place where Liang En and the others were.

"Congratulations on discovering these records from the Knights Templar." The leader of this group of archaeologists said to Liang En, with a look of gratitude on his face.

After they arrived, they quickly counted the glass containers in the jar, and roughly understood what they found from the text at the bottom of the container, so they were so excited.

After all, Sweden is located in Northern Europe. In ancient times, because the latitude was too high and too cold, only a few places could be inhabited, so those places can leave human remains.

The area where Liang En and the others are now is obviously a bit northerly, and it is in the mountains, so basically there are not many ancient remnants.

So now this treasure belonging to the Templar Knights' treasure is very important, at least making up for the gap in a large area here.

After packing all these things, a person radioed the helicopter just now, and then the helicopter that flew above the hill used the hoist on the helicopter door to pull the boxes and two archaeologists up.

After putting the safety boxes containing the glass bottles with gold leaf records into the helicopter cabin, everyone frantically wrapped the two gold-plated lead jars with various cushioning materials, and hung them on the helicopter with something like a net bag On the hardpoint under the belly of the aircraft.

When everything was installed properly, the helicopter flew up quickly, and then flew towards the east, flying farther and farther, and finally disappeared into the sky.

(End of this chapter)