Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 751 Scientific Examination
With the whole day of excavation, the layers of wreckage that originally covered the foundation were dug out, and more and more structural remnants and debris that should belong to the building itself appeared in the things dug out under the big pit. Some contemporaneous little things.

"These things shouldn't be of much value, right?" Prince Aziz asked Liang En in a low voice, looking at the small piece of clay tablet he had just dug up with only one or two cuneiform characters on it.

"At least it's impossible to judge now." Liang En shook his head slightly, and then carefully put the fragment into the box, "Maybe the fragments you found now are the most critical words in an important document Woolen cloth."

"I think——this possibility should not be great." Prince Aziz said with some embarrassment. As a young man not a few years older than Liang En, he seemed very excited to find something of value.

"From the perspective of archaeology, anything with a small probability is possible." Liang En said with a smile, and at the same time closed the lid of the box. "So we can't let go of any suspicious target."

"What's this?" Just after finishing these tasks, Joan suddenly shouted to them. She just dug a shovelful of soil out of the big pit, and found that there seemed to be something at the bottom of the pit.

"I don't know, but it looks like a stone sculpture." Liang En also knelt on the edge of the pit, and then started digging.At the same time, Joan of Arc and King Aziz also knelt on the side to help move the excavated soil to the side.

Although this place used to be the most solid temple of the ancients, the soil was repeatedly rammed to ensure its firmness, but after thousands of years, even the ground that was as solid as stone at that time has become as loose as ordinary loess.

So after only ten minutes, they enlarged the pothole and cleaned up the covering covering the sculpture, so that the sculpture was fully exposed in front of Liang En and the others.

"This seems to be a stone sculpture of a person's head." Prince Aziz said with some uncertainty, "But why does this sculpture look weird?"

The avatar has soft lines, and it should be the avatar of a woman.But what's weird is that there are no eyeballs in the eye sockets of the avatar, there are only two large holes, and there is a deep groove at the eyebrow.

At the same time, this portrait has obvious damage, the most conspicuous part is the nose, the whole nose seems to be lost in another collision.

At first, Liang En and the others thought that this thing might be a mask, but after taking it out, the back of their head was flat, and it was impossible to stick it on their faces as a mask.

What's more important is that this thing is made of stone. Considering the weight, it is impossible for a normal person to put this thing on the head and make any big moves. It is even very likely that if you move the mask, it will hit the ground directly.

"Bring over the constant temperature constant box. This thing is very important. It is very likely that the statue of the main god Inanna is enshrined in this city." Liang En instructed Joan of Arc.

"If it's a god statue, this thing looks a bit strange." Prince Aziz frowned as he watched the stone statue carefully removed.

"At least from an archaeological point of view, ancient god statues should give people a sense of majesty, but this kind of statue only gives people a weird feeling, and it is difficult for people to associate this statue with the so-called god."

"This is because the statue we see now is only half." Liang En smiled and carefully put the statue into the box Joan brought, then smiled at Prince Aziz and said.

"If it is normal. The eyes of this statue should be inlaid with various gemstones, the grooves in the eyebrows should be inlaid with gold or copper, and the hair should be made of copper or gold."

"As for the statue's body, it should not be lost. At least from the back of the head, it doesn't look like it was broken from a certain body, so I guess the head was originally independent."

"It was originally independent?" Prince Aziz felt even more dizzy. "The idol should have more than one head, otherwise it would be scary rather than holy."

"You're right, so if I'm not wrong, the rest of the statue should be made of heads or similar organic matter, so it hasn't been preserved until today." Liang En nodded and said.

"In fact, it was very common for the ancients to adopt the frame method when making some large-scale statues that were difficult to complete with the technology at that time. For example, many giant statues of gods in ancient Greece were made in this way."

For example, the largest indoor statue of Zeus in the ancient Greek era was made using similar technology. Historically, this statue adopted chryselephantine technology.

That is to say, the wooden support is used as the core, and ivory-carved muscles and gold clothing are added to the outside of the support. Even the throne is covered with gold on a wooden base, inlaid with ebony, gemstones and glass.

Of course, this practice still exists today. For example, the most famous Statue of Liberty in the United States is also made in this way, except that the wooden frame is replaced with a steel frame.

The discovery of the stone carvings made the camp of the archaeological team completely excited, because the stone carvings were the first cultural relics they found after they came here, which were called national treasures.

In the following meeting, everyone roughly guessed through discussion why this statue, which should be the patron saint of the city, appeared in the foundation.

According to everyone's inference, although this city has existed for thousands of years, the people inside have changed more than once, so the statue is likely to be done by invaders after a large-scale war.

These invaders were probably not the same gods that the city originally believed in, so they took the valuables off the statues of the old gods, and then destroyed the statues and buried them in the foundation of the temple.

Obviously, when normal people pile up garbage, there is a high probability that they will pile all the garbage in one pile instead of throwing it all over the ground, so by the next day, all the parties involved in the archaeology sent their people to start a large-scale search .

Undoubtedly, in the field of archaeology, the strength of the number of people is definitely a truth, so they dug up another treasure in just one day.

With the help of cards, Liang En was the first to dig out the part of this treasure: a fragment of a container made of alabaster with a sheep carved on it.

Judging from the slightly curved appearance of this piece of stone, it should be part of a container.After realizing this, everyone quickly started searching around with this place as the core.

Soon, one piece after another obviously came from the same container. Bibi found and excavated from the surrounding area. By the end of the afternoon on the [-]th, they dug up a whole large bag of debris.

"Okay, it seems that I may be busy tonight." After dinner, Liang En said while looking at a large pile of debris on the table in front of him in the RV compartment that was temporarily used as an archaeological laboratory.

"That's right, I hope we did collect all these fragments during the day." Jeanne looked at a table of fragments and said. "I estimate that it will take until two o'clock in the morning to scan all of them and save them in the computer."

"It won't take that long. Unlike the last time, the software used this time is ready-made, and there is no need for on-site temporary operations, so I have enough free time to help you scan together." Liang En said with his arms around Joan of Arc's shoulders.

"I think if there are no accidents, we should be able to finish work as long as we work until 11:30."

(End of this chapter)