Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 514 The Library and the Missing Person

"This should be a copy of some files we found in the Russian archives." The old lady named Hannah said to Liang En who came to ask her, "The original version should still be hidden in the national archives. Inside the hall."

"Although those ancient materials are now unlikely to be borrowed, let alone copied, if they were placed 30 or [-] years ago, if they paid for it and had the right identity, such things could still be copied. "

These files come from the secret files of the former Soviet Union. In the era when the Soviet Union completely disappeared, it is obviously not a complicated thing to make a copy of these non-core files.

This file is related to Tsarist Russia, and it records the archaeological report of a tomb excavated on the Crimean Peninsula during the last few years of Tsarist Russia.

The Crimea Peninsula has a long history and human civilization was born around 1000 years ago.There is enough evidence to show that the earliest settlers in the Crimean Peninsula were the Celts.

However, as history continues to advance, the owners of this peninsula are also constantly changing. In the 7th century BC, the Scythians who were active in Central Asia and West Asia replaced the Celts as the main residents here. The tombs of the Scythians remain.

It was then inhabited by the Greeks from the 6th century BC and was called Chersonis of Taurus, while the interior was occupied by the Scythians.

In 438 BC, the Bosporus Kingdom, which had a good relationship with Athens, was established here, providing grain and other commodities to Athens.In the first 15 years, Crimea surrendered to the Roman Empire.

但克里米亚博斯普鲁斯王国在蛮族入侵时即告崩溃。在此后长达10多个世纪中，克里米亚半岛相继被哥特人(250年）、匈人（376年）、可萨人（8世纪）、拜占庭（1016年）占领。

Because the owner of this piece of land changes like a revolving lantern.Therefore, objects from different eras and civilizations are naturally buried underground.

The excavation record indicated in the file brought by Ms. Hanna comes from a cemetery that clearly belonged to the Greeks in a southern Greek-dominated commercial city in the era of the Huns.

At that time, this cemetery and more than 200 other cemeteries were discovered at the same time. These cemeteries were located near the settlement at that time and should be cemeteries attached to the settlement.

Because the southern part of the Crimea peninsula belonged to those Greeks who were doing business at that time, it can be seen from the funerary objects that most of the owners of these tombs were people or local people who had already Hellenized.

Yes, although the land had been conquered by the Huns at that time, the trading cities in the south of the Crimea peninsula were still managed by those Greeks and Hellenized natives.

For the nomads, there are only two general directions for establishing their rule, either gradually localizing and eventually being completely conquered by the local civilization, or maintaining the original state and operating in an extremely extensive way.

The local ancient Greek communities accepted the second way of rule. After the Huns ruled here, everything changed little compared to the past except that they needed to hand over an extra tribute.

Therefore, in this corner of Western civilization, those Greeks still retain the habits passed down from generation to generation. For example, the difference between their cemetery and the cemetery of mainland Greece is extremely small.

The marked cemetery is mostly identical to the others around it, but an ancient clay seal is what really catches the attention of the diggers, because it has the Greek text of the Library of Alexandria written on it.

This kind of mud seal is often used on books, which means that at least one of the businessman's funeral objects comes from the books or materials of that famous library.

It is a pity that because the entire cemetery is not far from the sea, the preservation of the cemetery is a mess. The bones of the owner of the tomb and most of the funerary objects have been corroded by the groundwater with a high salt content. Only this mud seal remains. down.

According to the information that Liang En knows, there are not many things left in the ancient Alexandria library, so something like this should be called one of the few relics in that library.

"It was a very chaotic era, so I later bought this clay seal at an official Russian auction, and now if you will do me a favor, I would like to give it to you." Han Old lady Na said to Liang En.

That era can be regarded as the most chaotic era in the whole of Russia. Many things called national treasures were sold to Russia in the name of legality in that era, such as this piece of mud seal.

Or to be more precise, compared to the real national treasures being sold, this mud seal, which is not much bigger than a ping-pong ball, is really not a top-notch treasure.

"Then what should I do if I want to get this mud seal?" After hearing the conditions offered by the old lady in front of him, Liang En immediately asked the reason.

He did have a strong interest in this thing, because this piece of mud seal is also a very valuable thing, and there is a high probability that Liang En can find some very valuable items with the cooperation of cards.

From this point of view, it is also appropriate for this old lady named Hannah to put forward some conditions.After all, if such a precious thing is taken for nothing, it will be more likely to cause people's uneasiness.

"What you have to do is very simple, that is to help me find my grandfather." The old lady Hannah said with a smile, and then told the story of her grandfather.

Hannah's family started to rise from his grandfather's generation. His grandfather was a well-known polar explorer at that time, and he had made many expeditions to the Arctic Circle.

Of course, her grandfather found many valuable things during this expedition, including several gold mines, and this was the beginning of the fortune of Smith, where Hannah was.

It's just that during an expedition in 1923, Hannah's grandfather disappeared completely.After that, although their family hired many people to search for it, unfortunately they did not find it.

The Smith family has always suspected that Hannah's grandfather was murdered, because in the last letter sent home, Hannah's grandfather said that he had found clues to a huge gold mine, and now he needs to conduct a field survey.

As the saying goes, money touches people's hearts. Considering that the wilderness in northern Canada is inaccessible even now, it is not surprising that someone in the expedition team knew the news of the gold mine and wanted to kill people to steal the gold.

Of course, it is not impossible to wipe out the whole army after encountering some kind of bad weather, especially considering that the wilderness in northern Canada is full of dangers until today, and it will only be more dangerous nearly a hundred years ago.

It's just that because there is too little information, the Smith family has never figured out how Hannah's father, Mr. Smith, and the 12-person expedition team disappeared.

Although the Canadian government also sent people to search for it back then, it completely gave up the search after two months of searching. In addition to finding two return material storage points left by the expedition team during this search No clues were found.

(End of this chapter)