Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 748 Start

"How's the surrounding situation?" After the construction of the camp was completed, Liang En asked Fan Meng, who was on the perimeter, with a walkie-talkie. "Is there something wrong?"

"Everything around is normal." Fan Meng's voice came through the intercom, "Wait, there's a jeep coming towards us—"

"How far is the distance?" After hearing this, Liang En and Joan of Arc took out their weapons and walked out of the tent while asking. When they just stepped out of the tent door, they saw Prince Aziz next door carrying a Walked out with an assault rifle and two bodyguards.

"It's less than 5 kilometers, and it's getting closer." While Fan Meng was speaking, Liang En also saw the dust created by the car.

At this time, the sandstorm had stopped, and Liang En and the others all stood quietly on the ground with their weapons in hand, because in such a plain area, if the opponent really rushed towards us, they couldn't avoid it.

"Why did you come here?" Looking at Prince Aziz lying next to him, Liang En frowned, and then looked at the two bodyguards behind him. "It's very likely that a real battle will break out here. You'd better take the prince to a safe place."

"I want to come here myself." Prince Aziz said with a smile, "And I have been on the battlefield as an infantry captain, at least in terms of military experience, I am probably stronger than you."

"Okay, then you must obey the order for a while." Liang En looked at the firm face and nodded helplessly. To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the Saudi Army is somewhat suspicious, especially this kind of noble officer.

Fortunately, they are now in the second line, so if there is a real problem in a while, I believe that the two bodyguards can at least take him to a safe place as soon as possible.

Because it was the official archaeological team, Liang En and the others immediately raised the flags of Iraq, Ireland and Saudi Arabia.

After seeing the national flags, the other party slowed down significantly, and stopped at a distance of about two kilometers, and then a mixed call in English and Arabic sounded in the radio.

"It turned out that the Iraqi archaeological department came to join us, and this group of people did not notify in advance." Liang En said helplessly after figuring out the origin of this group of people.

Because it was confirmed that only a jeep and three people came and showed their identities, except for the security personnel at a few posts in the camp who were still on alert, everyone else was released from combat readiness.

And on the way back to the camp from the combat position, almost everyone was expressing their dissatisfaction with the Iraqi side's approach, because this situation is too easy to cause misfires.

For example, if the other party does not slow down or make any response this time, and directly enters within 1.5km of the camp.Then the Barrett sniper team they deployed not far away would most likely shoot directly.

A few minutes later, the somewhat worn-out Mitsubishi off-road vehicle parked outside the circular camp formed by the cars, and then two young men, a man and a woman, got out of the car.

This young woman surprised Liang En and the others, because although this country is not as religiously extreme as some countries, it is also a bit shocking for a young woman to be engaged in field work in this field.

"Hello, I'm Varda, the head of the local archaeological department, and this is my wife." The young man stepped forward to shake hands with Liang En, and then introduced him. "Next we will participate in the excavation work on behalf of Iraq."

"Nice to meet you." Liang En shook hands with him, then pointed to the ruins hundreds of meters away. "We are going to conduct a field trip soon, are you coming too?"

"Of course, we are here for this matter." Varda nodded and said. "I'm ready, please assign us tasks, I can't wait to complete them."

So 10 minutes later, several people drove the pulled all-terrain vehicle with equipment and drove towards the target location. It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time, so the land was completely original.

After driving across the seemingly flat land, they could clearly see that the wheels pulled out two ruts in the hot dust and kicked up khaki-colored dust.

However, this made Liang En more confident, because this kind of original ecological representative relic has not undergone too much external disturbance, and the possibility of important discoveries has also increased significantly.

Judging from the photos taken by ravens and drones, the ruins are about a circle with a diameter of 3km, and the central diameter of 1.5km belongs to the core area of ​​the ruins. It seems that the ruins left behind are relatively dense.

"Where do we start?" Because the core area is not small, Joan of Arc was obviously a little dizzy when she came to the core area and looked at the piles of dirt.

"I think that place is more suitable." Liang En pointed to the largest and highest mound in the center of the ruins and said, "If I guess correctly, it should be the core of the whole ruins."

Under Liang En's command, everyone quickly drove to the bottom of the ruins. The ruins looked like a slope, but traces of artificial ramming could still be seen in several remaining vertical places.

And when they climbed up the steep slope formed by weathering and collapse, they unexpectedly found many finger-long things scattered on the ground, which were obviously artificial creations.

"What is this?" Joan frowned after bending down to pick one up.She found that the thing was fired from clay, and the large end had traces of red terracotta glaze.

"This thing should belong to the earliest architectural decoration of Mesopotamia Civilization—they put together various patterns on the wall, called cone mosaics." After looking at this ceramic nail-like thing, Liang En quickly recognized it. out what this is.

However, this discovery made him very puzzled, because it is already a recognized fact that this kind of thing belongs to the decoration of high-level buildings in the early Mesopotamia civilization. He didn't know why the Iraqi side hadn't discovered this before.

"Because we only checked the east side of the entire ruins when we conducted cultural relics statistics, and the east side was the palace ruins of the Seleucid and Parthian Empires, so they made a mistake in dating the ruins at that time."

After hearing the question raised by Liang En, Varda, the Iraqi representative stationed in this archaeological activity, shook his head helplessly and said.

"I guess those people just left after a cursory look, and didn't conduct a serious investigation at all, so it became what it is now."

"But from another point of view, this is not a bad thing. You know that many tomb robbers on our side can get information from officials, and the information that cannot be investigated also misleads those criminals, so this place is preserved as a whole." It's pretty good."

The investigations here are obviously not as good as those in those big countries, because the perennial chaos and wars have led to insufficient support for departments such as cultural relics and archaeology, so that most of the remains were discovered by tomb robbers.

This is the reason why the other party will come up with this kind of joint archaeology. After all, only this method can quickly carry out work in a short period of time, and at the same time minimize the work cost.

(End of this chapter)