Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 467 Peloponnese Peninsula

If you want to pursue ancient civilizations, you can naturally not focus on the comfortable libraries, research institutes, universities, and museums, but go to the field to investigate the location of civilization sites.

For example, the Mycenae ruins that Liang En was looking for this time were like this, so after leaving the city of Athens, they quickly drove all the way west to the Peloponnese Peninsula, the cradle of early Greek civilization.

The Mycenaean civilization is a very ancient and wild civilization. Compared with the ancient Greek civilization, this civilization is 1000 years earlier, and it also advocates force more.

People's earliest impression of this civilization comes from the ancient "Homer's Epic". According to the narration of the story, they once conducted a ten-year cross-sea expedition for Helen.

In the end, Troy was destroyed by the Trojan horse trick and won.However, the victors did not have many opportunities to taste the fruits of their victory. For example, King Agamemnon of Mycenae died under the conspiracy of the usurper.

As the car went all the way west, a knife-cut canal appeared in front of them. This is the famous Corinth Canal in Greece.

According to historical records, the ancient Roman emperor Nero began to try to dig a canal in AD 67. After that, people tried to dig in this place whether it was the Byzantine era or the Middle Ages, but it was not until the 19th century that people really dug the canal.

This situation is mainly due to some problems with the local terrain. The canal is only 6.3 kilometers long, but it is 90 meters high from the horizontal line to the shore. It is the deepest canal in the world, and it is one of the very few dug in hard rock areas. One of the canals.

It is a pity that with the advancement of the shipbuilding industry and the level of navigation technology, this canal with a depth of 8 meters and a width of 24 meters at its widest point is completely unable to meet everyone's needs today.

At the same time, the ships in the past had to sail close to the coast, so it was a relatively dangerous thing to go around the Peloponnese Peninsula, and a canal was needed to bypass those dangerous places.

Today's ships can sail farther from the coast and much faster than in the past, so the security and time savings gained by using the Corinth Canal are not as important as they used to be.

Not to mention that although the canal is dug out of stones, these stones are obviously not hard enough, so the annual maintenance and operation costs are also very high. Economically speaking, the canal is not very cost-effective.

Fortunately, the unique landscape of this canal has attracted a large number of tourists, so the traffic in this canal is busy today.Although tolls are very expensive, 30 or so boats pass through the canal every day.

According to statistics, about 11000 boats pass through this canal every year, most of which are ferry boats and tourist boats. This is because the deep and straight rock walls of the canal itself are a must-see for many people traveling in Greece.

When Liang En and his car passed the canal bridge, they saw a white cruise ship passing under the bridge, and the tourists in the restaurant on the observation deck next to it also waved and greeted, which seemed very lively.

It's a pity that after crossing the canal, everything around became deserted, and entering the hilly Peloponnese peninsula, the surrounding situation looked a bit depressed.

I saw green trees on both sides of the road and few people. Occasionally, I saw a few simple stone huts in a small village with rental signs, but there seemed to be no business.

After all, it can be regarded as the off-season for traveling around the Mediterranean Sea. Naturally, these places far away from scenic spots are not very lively, and various industries do not seem to be so popular.

"Let's go to this place next." When we randomly found a roadside rest area to stop for dinner, Liang En spread out a map and pointed to a hill dozens of kilometers away and said, "I think this place should have something we want looking for something."

When he was about to arrive at the destination, Liang En began to explain to everyone the goal he chose this time and the reasons for choosing the goal, so that everyone can have a bottom line in their hearts.

"Hmm - this place does look like there are ancient ruins." Joan of Arc said after carefully looking at the topographic map.

"This hill is just stuck near an ancient road, and it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. I believe that if normal people want to build fortifications or even small cities, they should choose this hill as the construction site."

"More importantly, the village under this hill is called Mycenae. At the same time, from the satellite map, there are some obviously artificial buildings on the surface."

Finding Mycenae is much easier than finding Troy, but because there are too many ancient ruins in the entire Greek region, the ruins on the mountain are only simply registered.

After all, the exposed surface of this place is some rough stones, so it is indeed easy to be mistaken for a medieval castle site before further excavation.

As for the name Mycenae, it does sound familiar, but the problem is that there is not only one place with this name in the Peloponnese Peninsula, so it is hard to believe that there are valuable relics here.

Considering the rich historical and cultural relics in the entire Greek region, as well as the sparse manpower and meager funding of the archaeological department, it is completely understandable that the Greek side did not focus on this.

It's just that these Greek archaeological departments would never have thought that this medieval fortress, which they considered worthless, was the legendary site of Mycenae.

"Then I have a question here, where does the water on this mountain come from?" Fan Meng said suddenly after looking at it for a while. "The hill is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the height also makes it difficult to use water in this place."

As a soldier, Fan Meng is very sensitive to some war-related content, so he realized that this hill is difficult to dig groundwater with ancient technology, and there is not enough surface water around.

For the defenders of a military defensive area, the lack of water is a very fatal thing. To give the simplest example, when Zhuge Liang made Ma Di guard the street pavilion in the Northern Expedition, Ma Di was defeated because he squatted on the mountain and had no water source.

Not to mention that a city has a greater need for water than a pure military fortress, so it always feels a little strange to build a city in a place like this that doesn't seem to have enough water.

"This may be because there is a cistern in the city. After all, except for a few cities in Greece in BC, the other cities were not big, and they were even not that big compared to the pure fortresses in the Middle Ages." Liang En said .

"What's more, the location of this place is really good. It's just near the Isthmus of Corinth. It's stuck in two places and where land and water meet. It's very suitable for the city to develop various trades."

This is very important to Liang En, because according to ancient legends, Mycenae is described as "rich in gold." Considering that the local area has neither rich minerals nor a good natural environment, the probability of wealth should come from trade .

Under such circumstances, the possibility of this extremely unknown site being the city of Mycenae is not small, and what Liang En and the others have to do now is to confirm this conjecture through their own excavations.

(End of this chapter)