Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 837 Lead Book
Although he had judged that there should be some treasures hidden in this very well-preserved ruins, he was a little shocked that the two people's metal detectors responded almost at the same time.

Because Joan of Arc and Elizabeth were standing several meters away, if there were buried treasures between them, then the treasures that could be found this time were likely to exceed their previous imagination.

So Liang En immediately walked among them with a metal detector and started the detection work. Unfortunately, after more than ten seconds of detection, he had to admit that his judgment was somewhat wrong:
There was no metal reaction on the land between the two, and after simple excavation, he found that the soil layer below was much thinner than the soil layer on the two ladies' side, only one or two centimeters, and there were stones underneath.

"I seem to have found something here." Just after Liang En finished his inspection, Marie Antoinette also signaled that she had found something not far away.

"What's going on in this place?" After confirming that Mary had indeed found something, Liang En showed a thoughtful expression.

Because with the advancement of the search, everyone can even find obvious metal reactions every less than a minute, but only one thing is hidden in each treasure location.

This weird distribution of items naturally aroused Liang En's interest, so when the three ladies were searching with metal detectors, he took out the probes and started a large-scale exploration of the ground.

"So that's how it is." After the exploration of the tenth discovered object and the surrounding environment ended, Liang En nodded clearly, because he discovered the secret below:

As a natural cave, the ground here cannot be flat naturally, so the flat bottom of the cave is purely man-made.

According to the results of searching with probes, a small part of the opponent leveled the original protruding part, while most of them used a large amount of soil to raise the ground level and completed the ground leveling work by the way.

Undoubtedly, this means that a lot of work was spent on repairs back then, but from another perspective, it is not so complicated to use the recesses that were filled up to hide items that year.

"What do you think we can find this time?" After completing the exploration, they quickly started excavation work, because the soil used for filling will not exceed 1m in depth and has not been hardened, so the excavation work is very easy .

Fifteen minutes later the first object was unearthed. It looked like a squashed football, black and dusty.It doesn't look pretty.

"What is this?" After digging out the thing from the bottom of the pit, Joan stepped forward and tapped it with the tool in her hand before asking. "Although the weight is close to that of a stone, it doesn't look like it. At least the shell seems a little soft—"

"This should be something wrapped in asphalt." Liang En said after knocking, touching, and scraping off a little debris with the knife in his hand, putting it in front of his nose and smelling it.

"This can be regarded as a common preservation method in ancient times. It has existed since ancient Egypt. Ancient people used asphalt to isolate the air and complete the sealing work. At the same time, asphalt itself can kill a series of microorganisms."

"I know this, even back in my day we would choose to seal something with asphalt," Mary said at this time. "It's just that things sealed with asphalt are more difficult to restore to their original shape."

"But it's not too difficult to use extraordinary power. After all, asphalt is a mineral." Hearing this, Liang En smiled and snapped his fingers, and then launched his power at the asphalt ball.

With the output of extraordinary power, the asphalt on the sphere squirmed as if it had suddenly come to life, and then fell off the sphere little by little, revealing something that looked like a book inside.

"It's so heavy, it feels like it's made of lead." After the asphalt was cleaned up, Jeanne of Arc immediately pulled out the hidden thing inside with her hands, and unexpectedly found that the thing that looked like a book was much bigger than expected. Much heavier.

"A book made of lead—I hope it's not fake." After seeing this book made entirely of lead materials, Liang En shook his head and said, because the precedents in the history circle made him have to be cautious in this regard.

In March 2011, a British scholar named Elkington published a batch of metal books called the Jordanian Lead Books. This batch of books is about the size of a credit card, with about 3-5 lead plates. Made around the 15st century AD.

Once the news was announced, it attracted a lot of attention.The Israel Antiquities Bureau even planned to buy back the entire batch of books, and the folk rumors became more and more exaggerated.

There are even rumors that these books were produced by the followers of Jesus in the decades after his crucifixion. They record Jesus' preaching experience, similar to China's "The Analects of Confucius", which is very magical.

However, many historians later publicly stated that these books were fakes, because a paragraph of text in the book actually imitated a paragraph of inscription on the tombstone collected by the Amman Archaeological Museum, and the relief on it was also a bit problematic.

The result of the debate was a comprehensive scientific examination of the pencil books, and it was found that the plates themselves were indeed nearly 2000 years old, but that the writing on the plates had been forged by modern forgers.

So in 2017, the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Jordanian archaeological department both declared that these lead books were fakes.It's just that Elkington and a group of diehards firmly believe that these books are true, and Israel and Jordan refuse to admit it because there are secrets in the books.

Golden Dawn had also been interested in these books before, but after examining them, they could tell from the traces of the engraved characters that the tools used by the other party should be modern alloy steel, so they immediately lost interest.

After all, alloy steel did not exist around the first year of AD, not to mention that the text content of the other party's carvings had some sharp turns, which looked like they were copied from different documents.

"I don't think it's necessary to be too nervous." Mary, who knew more about the matter, said, "Compared with things of unknown origin like the Jordanian pencil book, we can be sure that this book is indeed from the same era as the ruins. "

"That's right." Liang En said and nodded, and then carefully opened the book in his hand. Due to the long-time burial, the book was covered with a layer of gray-white rust, but fortunately, it did not affect reading.

"It feels like this book is a bit small." Joan of Arc muttered softly after watching Liang En open the book in her hand, because she remembered that in her era, every book was thick and heavy, looking like city wall bricks.

"This is a book made of lead." Liang En turned his face and raised his eyebrows and said, "After all, this is not a fantasy world, so practical metal books should not be too big, otherwise it will be difficult to read. "

Although this book was just a booklet not much larger than the palm of an adult male and less than five centimeters thick, Liang En felt that holding this book was almost like holding a shot put.

"A book that not only increases knowledge, but also exercises arm strength." Mary finally gave a very appropriate answer. "It's a really good book."

(End of this chapter)