Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 391

"Hurry up and report it." Looking at these various gadgets made of gold and semi-precious stones, Liang En immediately asked the Greek workers who came with them to report the incident to the local archaeological department.

Because the current situation has been completely different from the plan, even Liang En himself did not expect that he would be able to unearth such a precious thing in the first excavation.

In particular, these jewelry and gold patterns are basically related to cows and horns. It is hard not to remind people of the legends about the Minoan labyrinth and the tauren in ancient Greek legends.

You must know that there are some important relics in this world that have not been discovered, so it is generally believed that the legend is just a pure legend. Therefore, these cattle-related jewelry and this relic can even be said to be subversive to the entire archaeological world.

More importantly, the greatest value of these ruins on Crete is that this is the oldest civilization in Europe, so once it is discovered, it will definitely be a sensation.

That's why Liang En changed his plan after digging up these items, and chose to immediately take photos of these jewelry and file them and report them to the Greek archaeological department.

Because these things are too precious, Liang En is worried that something dangerous will happen if the report is reported two weeks later as planned. After all, money touches people's hearts, and it is really not safe to keep so many things in their hands.

It has to be said that Greece is considered to be one of the five European pig countries for a certain reason. Even if Liang En sent a very detailed notice to the cultural relics management department, the other party also said that there will be only one registration for Liang En's report on Saturday and Sunday. No one will be sent over.

"It's bad, but it's the norm in our Greece." Angelos showed a helpless look on his face. "These people have high wages and high benefits, but they can leave work at two o'clock in the afternoon, and they can even receive pensions when they are 40 years old."

For the lazy attitude of the official Greek staff, even the farm workers for the Greeks can't see it. After all, their working hours are much longer than these staff, but they get much less wages and benefits.

But no matter how much everyone complained, the fact that they had to stay on the mountain for two days had become a certainty and could not be changed, so after a lot of anger, everyone quickly made arrangements for these two days.

After all, the excavation work has started now, and it will be very troublesome if someone runs over to loot the treasure from the ruins, so a 24-hour patrol arrangement must be in place.

Just when Liang En was about to continue digging and dig out the thing marked on the previous card, Joan also put her mobile phone on a stabilizer to start shooting.

Liang En’s habit of filming and even broadcasting the excavation process or excavation content started when he dug up the Japanese army’s drug cache in the Philippines, mainly to find ways to gain some public opinion support when he found some difficult things.

As a result, Joan of Arc found this new type of media that could help her protagonist Liang En famous very interesting, so she normalized the shooting and publishing.

As for the released content, it was mainly about Liang En's work. For example, after the jewelry conference was held last time, they put Liang En's process of designing these jewelry on the Internet with the company's permission.

Unlike those so-called treasure hunters, Liang En's excavation work was all carried out under legal circumstances, so naturally he did not shy away from shooting videos or even live broadcasting during the excavation work.

Although there was almost zero interaction between Liang En and the audience during this shooting process, but because of enough realistic reasons, it attracted a group of hardcore audiences.

To Liang En's surprise, although he updates irregularly, and the content of each update is not connected in any way, there are more than 20 people who follow him on Youtube.

The reason why there are such a high number of followers is also very simple, because both painting and archaeological excavation belong to the kind of highly professional work, which is very rare for ordinary people, so come to see new ones There are naturally many people.

More importantly, Liang En is not the kind of unknown person. Whether it is deciphering ancient Egyptian texts or discovering the ancient American colonies of Vikings, he has gained a lot of fame. Naturally, some people are willing to watch his videos.

"Okay, let's start the live broadcast." Liang En nodded to Joan of Arc to indicate that he was ready, and then went down to the pit to start the afternoon's work.

In the first half an hour, Liang En dug out several stained clay beads and a leaf made of gold leaf, but as the excavation progressed, the bottom was no longer pure soil, but a large number of broken pottery parts.

These things look like Barbie doll parts, and one of the things shown in the previous card is hidden in this pile of debris.

After squatting by the pit and collecting the marked fragments together, Liang En found that these fragments should come from a god statue, but the damage was a bit serious.

Judging from the current pile of things, this pottery statue should be a statue of a goddess.Wearing a wide skirt with an open chest, the breasts are exposed. At the same time, from the perspective of posture, each hand should hold a golden snake with its head raised upwards.

For unknown reasons, the statue was severely damaged, missing the left arm, the lower half of the snake in the right hand, and most of the skirt.

But even through the remaining part, Liang En recognized that this object should be a representative cultural relic in Minos' palace, called the statue of the Snake Goddess.

"Maybe the world is different." Thinking about the complete statue in his impression, and then looking at the incomplete statue in his hand, Liang En felt that this difference might be caused by the tiny differences in different worlds.

But in fact, the real situation is that when the statue in Liang En's last world was discovered, it was even missing a head compared to the current situation, and it was not at all what it looked like in the widely circulated photo.

The statue that people usually see is actually the result of "repair" by the Danish artist Halvor Bagge who discovered Ivans in the Minoan Labyrinth at that time, and it contains a lot of fabricated elements.

Although the fact that the famous statue was damaged made Liang En feel a little uncomfortable, at the same time he didn't know the truth of the matter in the other world.

But as a professional in this field, he soon realized that what he saw before was probably the result of restoration, not the appearance of digging.

This practice is actually very common in the West. Unlike the traditional Eastern practice of restoring the old, the West is more inclined to restore cultural relics to their original state when it comes to restoration of cultural relics.

However, due to the different levels of awareness of some archaeological relics in different eras, many early restored cultural relics can often be seen as superfluous or pretentious.

Still taking the Minoan Palace as an example, all the above-ground buildings seen in the other world were actually reconstructed by Evans through guesswork back then.

This has led to the use of a large number of modern materials similar to reinforced concrete in the restoration process, and there are a lot of conjectures. Among them, the large-scale disturbance of the ruins makes it impossible for people to restore the real appearance of the Minoan Palace. .

(End of this chapter)