Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 989 Schliemann

As for why Liang En chose this place for excavation, Professor Liu from the Huaxia Archaeological Team didn't ask any questions, because there are many reasons for excavating at this designated site in archaeological work, and it doesn't make sense to ask.

For example, in many cases, it is just a feeling to designate a certain place to excavate. This does not sound scientific, but it is indeed a relatively common practice in archaeological work.

After all, even advanced ground-penetrating radars are powerless against ruins exceeding a certain depth, so it should be considered a common practice to resort to luck sometimes.

As far as Professor Liu is concerned, at least the location of this kind of excavation is considered to be the core area of ​​Troy, and they can get first-hand information about the archeology of this ruin, which is enough to make them feel satisfied.

This is not because he is a person who is easy to be satisfied, but for the whole of China, archaeology abroad is just the beginning, so many times they can only do unimportant work in the excavation of those ruins.

To give the simplest example, they once conducted an official-led joint archaeological work with Egypt to excavate a temple. As a result, only Egyptians and Americans could enter the main building of the temple, and they could only dig gates and squares.

Only when they jointly excavated with the Sudan last time did they obtain permission to excavate the core area, but the remains of that time were only the remains of a village in the ancient Egyptian era, and the value was not great.

It wasn't until Liang En started the excavation work and they cooperated that they got a real meaningful joint excavation work, and they were able to dig deep into the core parts of many important historical sites.

For example, the current excavation in Troy is like this. Although they have not dug up any ruins for the time being, from an archaeological point of view, they have indeed dug through the entire Troy ruins and obtained a lot of first-hand information.

It's just that Liang En wanted more than these, because he was very happy to cooperate with the Huaxia people before, so he asked them to come here so that they could share the glory of releasing the core treasure.

After all, Liang En didn't have a core archaeological team of his own, and facing the treasures hidden under more than ten meters of soil and rubble, Liang En and Joan of Arc alone could not dig out those things.

Considering that this place is under the watchful eyes of the public, Liang En can't use his extraordinary power to carry out the excavation work, so the only way is to find someone.

So in this case, instead of looking for those unfamiliar teams, it is better to find this group of Huaxia archaeological teams that have cooperated happily before, and accumulate some favors by the way.

And what Liang En wanted to dig this time was the treasures called the treasures of Priam in another world, because these treasures in another world were the core reason why the Troy ruins were certified.

In the world Liang En came to, in 1870, in order to find the city of Troy, Schliemann, an archaeologist, took his newlywed wife all the way to the Strait of Dardania, and came to the Trojan Plain on the coast of the Near East.

After on-the-spot investigation, he finally selected a hill named Hisarik as the excavation site, and in April 1870 he received the excavation permit from the Turkish government.

After that, he hired a hundred workers and continued intermittently for three years starting from April 1870. He dug for two months in 4 and four and a half months in the second year. In mid-March 1871, they began digging again.

In the past three years of excavation, Schliemann has excavated layers of ancient city ruins here, but he has no scruples in tearing off the upper layers of urban ruins, thus causing serious archaeological damage.

This is mainly because early archaeology had many flaws due to the accumulation of technology, and Schliemann was a half-baked man with a poor overall level.

The most famous thing is that he dug a 70-meter-long and 18-meter-wide trench in the core area of ​​the ruins, completely destroying the entire central area of ​​the ruins and seriously affecting the subsequent exploration work of archaeologists.

However, because of such a big fight, he successfully discovered the ancient city on the second-to-last floor, which has thick walls and towering gates. There is a very impressive house in the city, and there are traces of fire on the city wall.

All this made Schliemann conclude that this was the city of Troy he had been looking for, and that the house was also the palace of Priam. The treasure house of Priam mentioned in the "Iliad" epic is about to be revealed to the world.

But things went against his wishes, he almost hollowed out half of the ancient city, but never found a piece of gold.Schliemann was exhausted physically and mentally, and was about to stop the excavation of Hisarik Hill, but at this time a turning point appeared.

According to Schliemann, on June 1873, 6, he and his hired hands went to the construction site to make their last effort.When standing at a depth of 14 feet near the circular wall of Priam's palace, he was suddenly attracted by a very strangely shaped artifact in the waste layer.

Because there seems to be a dazzling brilliance flickering behind that thing.Schliemann realized it must be gold.He tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, and asked his wife to tell the workers: Today is his birthday, so work is called off early.

After the workers dispersed, Angas Dominos returned to stand beside her husband.After Schliemann squatted under the wall under the strong sunlight and pushed the ashes away with his hands, the earth showed the luster of ivory and the flash of gold.

His wife took off the red shawl, and Schliemann took out the gold and silver treasures one by one and wrapped them in the shawl.This is how the treasures were discovered.

The large number of cultural relics and goldware discovered by Schliemann in the Troy ruins are collectively called the Priam Treasures, and the gold jewelry among them is named "Helen Jewelry" and his wife Sophia wears it as a model.

Once the photo of the Greek beauty wearing "Helen Jewelry" was released, it caused a sensation throughout Europe, and Schliemann became a household name.That photo has also become a representative photo of Troy archeology.

But this seemingly legendary story is full of fallacies and lies. First of all, there are no palaces and temples at all in the bottom layer excavated by Schliemann in Hisarik Sand Dunes, that is, the first layer.

This is evidenced in a letter he wrote to a friend: "Imagine my horror, yesterday I was in the Stone Age." So he decided to dig the second layer of the later period.

He was excited to discover traces of raids and fires, as well as ancient pottery warehouses buried underground.Then he discovered the accumulation of rocks, and immediately concluded that this was a stone tower for watching the heroes of Asia.

Then he felt that it was not a tower, but the walls of two buildings belonging to different periods.There are some other "identifications" like this.Obviously, such archeology lacks a scientific attitude.

The artifacts found by Schliemann actually have nothing to do with Priam or Helen.They are located on the second floor of the Troy ruins, and the era of Priam should be in the sixth or seventh period of the Troy ruins, and there is a distance of nearly a thousand years between the two.

Secondly, the treasures unearthed by Schliemann were later inspected and found that some artifacts were not from the Homer era.Obviously, he regarded the cultural relics unearthed in different periods and locations as a whole.

For example, the golden cup that Liang En and the others found on the fifth floor was also mixed with Priam's treasure in the previous life, which is obviously wrong.And this kind of mixing also brought huge troubles to later researchers.

And the most legendary part of this process, that is, how he and his wife dug together, and how the treasure was hidden under his wife's shawl and transported to the cabin and other details were all fabricated by him.

According to the "Schliemann's Diary" published after his death, we can know that his wife was not in Turkey at all, but in Greece.

But in any case, the existence of the treasures is real, and this is why Liang En led the Huaxia archaeological team to dig in this area, because he felt that only by finding these treasures could the confirmation of the Troy ruins be guaranteed.

(End of this chapter)