Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 753 Text
There is also a reason why Liang En praised this thing as the most important weapon of the country, because both the volume and the level of carving on it all reflected the highest technical level of that era.

It can be said that even today it is not a simple matter to process a cup of such a shape with a whole piece of complete stone, and to engrave various patterns on the surface at the same time, let alone more than 5000 years ago.

"I believe this thing will become our national treasure in Iraq." As a representative of the local government, Varda said seriously. "Because the amount of information contained in it is too great."

The sculpture on the container can be said to be very clear, so it is naturally easy to explain.According to the results of everyone's discussion, a simple interpretation is that a certain king is offering sacrifices to the goddess Ishtar.

There is also a complex interpretation that the king may have a sacred marriage with the goddess as the chief priest of the entire city-state.

This is mainly because in the scene behind the two ram carvings, it is possible to see the king and goddess as both real and statues.Their union guaranteed Uruk's abundance and harvest.

This is a very common thing for early civilizations, that is, the leader of a region is not only the leader in the administrative sense, but also the leader of the army and the highest level of clergy.

And now this cultural relic reflects this point. It may be out of showing their piety to the gods, or they may simply feel that they should offer their best things to the gods. They made such an exquisite bottle.

As for the method of displaying worship, the craftsmen reproduced the complete sacrificial ceremony more than 5000 years ago on the surface of this container, and from the perspective of art history, this cultural relic also became the earliest complete narrative art presentation.

So no matter from what point of view, no matter what era, this thing is enough to be called a national treasure cultural relic, which also means that Liang En and the others have indeed found a very important discovery this time.

"It's a pity that we don't know what this place is for the time being." After confirming the preciousness of this bottle, Liang En sighed, "Such a city like this should not leave its own name in history."

"I think we may have found some clues." As soon as Liang En's voice fell, Professor Wang, the leader of the Huaxia archaeological team, said, "There are some fragments of clay tablets with inscriptions on the ruins we excavated before."

"However, because most of them are just fragments, and all of them are mixed together, we haven't been able to piece together the list of goods that the valuable owner can judge for the time being."

After speaking, this Professor Wang sent Liang En the photo he had taken before, and it turned out that the text on it recorded a process of item distribution.

According to the above records, they distributed three cans of beer to each of the group that worked the most, while the other groups only had two cans.

As the oldest farming nation, the Sumerians are good at brewing beer, and they also like to use beer as a general equivalent for exchanging goods or paying labor remuneration.

In fact, this habit continued until the ancient kingdom of ancient Egypt, when the Egyptian pharaohs paid soldiers and workers beer and bread.

According to some unearthed cultural relics, the Sumerians mastered the brewing method of beer as early as 6000 years ago. The Sumerians left relevant documents on the beer making method in the Godin Hills of the Zagros Mountains in western Iran.

In addition, the unearthed cultural relics recorded a "Hymn to the Goddess Ninkashi", which mentioned the beer goddess "Ninkashi" in Mesopotamia and beer brewing technology.

Of course, the beer here is different from the later generations of beer. Beer from an archaeological point of view generally refers to everything brewed mainly from grains.Rather than beer, it is more like a porridge with a sweet taste.

According to this theory, Huaxia's rice wine, thick wine, and even fermented glutinous rice can be called beer. At least Liang En thinks that purely in terms of style and taste, fermented glutinous rice is closer to these ancient beers.

In other words, the reason why these ancient Sumerians liked beer was not because of the insufficient alcohol content, but because of the large amount of sugar produced after fermentation.

And to be honest, the biggest advantage of this kind of ancient beer compared with modern beer is that it is rich in nutrients and high in calories.This is very important for those ancient people who lived in times of scarcity.

"That's right, this should be the account book used by the ancient Sumerians to record some changes in the situation. After recognizing the contents of this clay tablet, Liang En nodded." How many clay tablets do you have left that have not been spelled out? ? "

"A lot. Although we didn't carry out detailed statistics, it is estimated that at least more than 300kg." Professor Wang smiled helplessly.

"We have already started to work hard, but because everything is smashed and mixed together, it may take half a year to eight months to sort out these things thoroughly, and this is the fastest speed."

"Then you can try the system I prepared." After hearing what he said.Liang En recommended the software system he had prepared, "It's all thanks to that system that the bottle can be spelled so quickly."

The system has actually been patented and is intended to be commercialized.It's a pity that few people use these things for the time being, so Liang En's gift this time can be regarded as a small advertisement.

"Ah, thank you very much." After seeing the gift from Liang En, Professor Wang thanked with a smile, "We will try this system tonight to see if we can find valuable information."

So from the afternoon of that day, all the scanners began to run at full capacity. Everyone marked the fragments of the clay tablets, and then used the scanners to start a comprehensive scan and store it in the computer.

This is a somewhat trivial and somewhat complicated job, because the scanning efficiency of the scanner itself is not fast, but this is not a bad thing for Liang En and the others, which means that everyone can complete this job in shifts.

Apart from maintaining morale, one of the biggest advantages of working in shifts is to reduce mistakes, because this job needs to repeat several similar actions repeatedly, so if a person works for a long time, it is easy to have problems.

After all, the work of scanning those things is different from the work of workers on the production line. This is a work that requires enough care and patience, so they care more about the accuracy of this work than efficiency.

Also in the pursuit of accuracy, each operation is carried out by two people, one of whom scans and the other checks to make sure nothing goes wrong with the scan.

And this is also reflected in the following work. On average, everyone has to change every half hour to 40 minutes, because once this time is exceeded, our accuracy will be greatly reduced.

Fortunately, this software is really easy to use, so they have successfully spelled out more than 60 clay tablets by the end of the night.

The next step was Liang En's work, because he was the only one here who could read these ancient cuneiform characters accurately, so after dinner, he came to the laboratory and started his own work.

(End of this chapter)