Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 795 Murals
It's just that this building is not made of pure stone, but is built using stone pillars and walls to support wooden beams. It belongs to a relatively common building construction method in the Mediterranean region.

Fortunately, the era of barbaric excavations at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century has passed, so these archaeologists basically choose to slowly pursue the truth of history, rather than doing anything reckless in terms of restoration.

"Has there been any new discoveries recently?" Liang En asked after shaking hands with the person in charge of this area, Dr. Liu from Huaxia, "I think what you are digging now should be the core area."

"We found some important murals, such as these." After listening to Liang En's inquiry, Dr. Liu led Liang En to the simple house beside the pit at the excavation site, and said at the same time.

"The only pity is that because the time has passed for too long, these murals have basically become a pile of incomplete fragments, and we haven't put together many pieces yet."

"This is normal. After all, the abandonment of this ancient palace was related to wars and earthquakes, so it is normal that there are not many complete cultural relics preserved."

Liang En walked into the door of the room, and then came to the long table.Now the things that were dug out are placed on the long table, but these things look scattered, and it is basically impossible to tell what they looked like.

After all, the inherent problem with murals is their fragility, incompleteness, and artistic anonymity, so encountering murals, especially fragments of them, during archaeological excavations is a very tricky business.

Fortunately, not everything is like this. There is a pair of patterns that have been put together on a table in the middle of the room.

"These murals were found in the living area of ​​the east wing of the Knossos Palace, a room near the Hall of Two Axes. We call the entire area around it the Queen's Chamber." Dr. Liu pointed to the collaged patterns and introduced .

"At least judging from the discovery of these fragments now, we can piece together a complete dolphin and another broken dolphin, and this is in line with the decoration style of the entire ruins."

Perhaps because it is an island, the Cretan civilization, as a marine civilization, likes to use patterns related to marine life and ships as decorations in many places, so it is normal for dolphin patterns to appear.

However, Liang En was a little surprised by the pattern of this mural, because of the dolphin pattern on it, he immediately recognized that this should be one of the most important murals in the remains of the Cretan civilization. The Minoan dolphin mural.

"Are there any other murals or fragments in that place?" Liang En turned his head and asked Dr. Liu after carefully checking the things placed on the table.

"There are still some, but in fact there are not many." Dr. Liu seriously shook his head after thinking for a few seconds, "It's just a small room, so we shouldn't analyze too many pictures inside."

Unlike the restored murals of five dolphins in another world, archaeologists here are only sure that there are only two dolphins on the murals in this place.

This difference does not mean that there were differences in the painting of this mural in the two worlds back then, but because there are actually only murals of these two dolphins in this place.

In another world.The most impressive, and even many people think that it is the original historical appearance are those murals in the relic museum.

Evans traded his wealth for the ruins, so his team has considerable freedom to do with the ruins in this bold reconstruction project.

In order to restore the unearthed damaged murals to the prosperous ancient Greek world in his heart, he hired Emile Gieron and his son from Switzerland.

The artist father and son created enhanced reproductions of the surviving murals, using their own imagination.To fill in the missing parts, a part was installed in the palace called the restoration, but in fact it was newly built.

Therefore, some murals have the feeling of Art Nouveau in terms of characters, colors and patterns after restoration. This is not a restoration at all, but a re-creation under the skin of restoration.

For example, the famous picture of a bullfight and the portrait of a prince wearing a lily crown were supplemented in this way, so a lot of fallacies naturally appeared in the eyes of future generations.

Take, for example, the famous portrait of the prince, made in 1905 by Emile Guillon, the father of the father and son, with several original fragments (small part of head, flower crown but no face, part of body, part of thigh) pieced together.

According to Evans' own records, these fragments were originally scattered all over the place, and they most likely belonged to different people, but he did not put them away by category.

Under the "guidance" of Ivans himself, this thing was irreversibly "repaired": he "repaired" the latter two figures as black, based only on the blackish fragments scattered on the ground.

However, according to the inspection of these so-called restored murals by latecomers, it is found that these fragments are probably not from the same painting at all, but the result of Evans' brainstorming.

But today this type of problem is basically impossible to reappear. With the development of history and archaeology, people also have a new way of thinking about restoration work, so that they will not adopt the proven wrong approach.

At least today, no one can make a drastic so-called repair based on just guessing, and there is no such thing as inexperienced people performing repair work.

For us, the biggest problem right now is imagination. Dr. Liu spread his hands and said helplessly. "There are not many murals that can be as complete as the dolphin murals, and the rest can only be guessed." "

"This should be a relatively talent-consuming thing, and it belongs to a place where you can't help even if you want to." Liang En said after walking around the room.

"So the next thing will be hard work for you. I know that you have encountered many difficulties working overseas. If you encounter some problems in life or work, you can call me."

"Then thank you, Mr. Liang. In fact, we were also grateful for your care before, otherwise our overall progress would not be as fast as it is now." Dr. Liu shook hands with Liang En and said.

Because the time is close to lunch time.So everyone simply decided to go to the city to have a meal together today. After all, the dining table is a very convenient place for Chinese people to communicate.

But when they came to the gate of the manor, they unexpectedly saw a police car drive into the manor, and then stopped beside them.

"May I ask who is the history expert from Huaxia?" Soon, a policeman got out of the car and asked in a very unproficient Chinese.

"We are here." Liang En immediately replied in Greek, "What's the matter?"

"It's like this. We intercepted a batch of smuggled cultural relics at the port, and there were a lot of things from China. Well, I would like to ask you to help find out what it is."

(End of this chapter)