Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 865 Excavation
The Jinsha Site is located in Jinsha Village, Supo Township, West of Shudu City, Shu City, China, with a distribution area of ​​about 5 square kilometers. It was the capital of the ancient Shu Kingdom, the center of ancient civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River from the 12th century BC to the 7th century BC.

The Jinsha site reproduces the glory of the ancient Shu Kingdom. The main cultural relics are from the late Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty. The important relics include large-scale building foundations, sacrificial areas, general residence sites, and large cemeteries.

More than 5000 pieces of precious cultural relics such as gold, bronze, jade, stone, ivory, and lacquerware were unearthed from the entire site, as well as tens of thousands of pottery fragments, tons of ivory, and thousands of wild boar tusks and antlers. .

These unearthed objects include the highest concentration of ivory and the most abundant gold and jade objects in the world from the same period.Among them, the most famous one is the gold foil of the sun god bird, which has been identified as a symbol of Chinese cultural heritage.

The discovery of the Jinsha ruins has advanced the urban history of the Shu capital to 3000 years ago, which is regarded as the beginning of the urban history of the Shu capital, and is of great significance to the study of the origin, development, and decline of the Shu culture.

At the same time, this site, together with the prehistoric city sites of the Shudu Plain, the Sanxingdui site, and the ship coffin tombs of the Warring States period, jointly constructed the four stages of the development and evolution of the ancient Shu civilization, and jointly proved that the Shudu Plain was the center of the origin of civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Realizing that the very important Jinsha ruins might be under his feet, Liang En immediately called Elizabeth to tell Elizabeth what he had found, and then asked her to find a way to transfer those staff members away.

After all, if there are really relics here, the current situation of too many people on the construction site is very troublesome, and it is likely to cause unnecessary damage or loss of cultural relics.

Soon, the person in charge of the construction site greeted Liang En and left with the workers on the construction site. After they left, Liang En and Joan of Arc quickly went down to the pit for further inspection.

Sure enough, when they entered the pit for further inspection, they found that after digging only a dozen centimeters down, many cultural relics began to appear at the bottom of this big pit. At least Liang En found several traces of ivory exposed.

Unlike the ivory that is full of luster and oiliness that I usually see, these ivory are dry and cracked, and the top is full of cracks, just like broken bones smashed after being eaten.

"This place is a bit strange." After looking at the pile of things in front of her, Joan was naturally a little confused, because according to the current discovery, the situation in the pit is obviously abnormal:
There are a lot of treasures in this pit, each of which was valuable at that time, even precious, but now they are thrown at the bottom of the pit in such a chaotic manner.

More importantly, the items they found were scattered and incomplete. Many things that should have been a complete set only had some parts, while the other part was obviously incomplete.

"I think this pit should be a sacrificial pit, and according to the ancient tradition of China, when offering sacrifices, you will choose to burn the best products or bury those sacrifices underground, just like now." Liang En explained to Joan of Arc .

"For example, I just found traces of ancient excavation and some traces of carbonization of organic matter on the side of the pit dug by the excavator. These are likely to be traces left by ancient burning sacrifices."

"If that's the case, then everything makes sense." Joan of Arc nodded, and then asked while looking at the bottom of the pit that they had cleared out. "Then what do we do next?"

"Of course it is reported. After all, according to the local law, we must report any cultural relics and monuments we find, and anything we find locally belongs to the state and cannot belong to private individuals."

While speaking, Mr. Liang En called the local archaeological department.In addition to this phone call, he also dialed the phone numbers of several archaeologists who had left behind when he attended the meeting.Hope to get help from each other.

Obviously, it's not easy to get help in this area.What a difficult matter, those experts are very interested in Liang En's discovery.

Because it is closer to here.So those big cows came earlier than the professional archaeological team. Only half an hour later, almost all the people who attended the meeting before appeared in this open space, and then started the search.

And when those professionals arrived later, they were obviously intimidated by the lineup on the field, so that they were stunned for a while before getting into work, and they took the initiative to help these real bosses.

Liang En became a lot more relaxed at this time, because according to the law, as a foreigner, he has no right to participate in the excavation process unless he can obtain special permission.

However, although he couldn't participate in the excavation, it was still no problem to watch from the side, so he sat by the side of the pit with Joan of Arc and began to watch the excavation site up close.

Due to the absolutely sufficient manpower on site, the progress of the excavation is also very fast, and as the progress of the excavation continues to increase, these bigwigs in the archaeological field have also discovered what is going on here.

When it was getting dark, they had made their first judgment based on the excavated things and came to a simple conclusion, thinking that this thing should belong to an important relic of the Shu civilization in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it was related to Sanxingdui. contacted.

"This will be a big discovery." As the organizer of the meeting, the vice president of the Archaeological Association made a brief summary at the end, and then asked several young people to quickly contact more departments.

So on the third day, when Liang En and Joan of Arc obtained the permit as quickly as possible and came to the construction site again, they found that armed police were stationed outside the construction site, and strict security checks were required no matter whether they entered or exited the construction site.

"What happened here? Why did the scene become so tense all of a sudden." After entering the excavation site, Liang En approached a young scholar whom he had chatted with very congenially during the discussion before, and asked about his inner doubts.

"This is mainly because during the previous cleaning process, we found that the importance of this discovery is far greater than previously imagined." The young scholar nodded and said.

"According to those academic experts, the bottom of this pit is a very high-level Shu culture sacrificial pit, so it is very likely that there is a high-level and huge ancient Shu cultural site here."

"To be honest, everyone is very fortunate that the surrounding land has not undergone in-depth development. So if there are no accidents, the remains of this place should be well preserved now."

For archaeologists, the ruins that have not been disturbed are the best ruins, because the things found in this way will be very complete, which is more conducive to restoring the scene of the year, and in turn conducive to comprehensive research on the era of the ruins.

"Looking at it this way, our luck is indeed very good." Liang En nodded, then looked at the busy construction site and asked. "Is there anything I can do now?"

"Of course, you can go to the B3 area. There is no one there yet." The scholar pointed to another area in the distance where there were few people in Xiaogao and said, "I hope you can find something more valuable."

(End of this chapter)