Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 468 Discovery of Mycenae

Chapter 468 Discovery of Mycenae

Soon, the vehicle came to the small village still called Mycenae. After getting out of the vehicle and buying a bottle of drink and taking the opportunity to chat with the villagers, Liang En brought back a shard of pottery the size of a palm.

The crude-looking shard of pottery would be worthless in an antiques fair, but what villagers say was dug up on the hill shows the true age of the site.

Similar to the pottery that Liang En found on Crete before, this piece of very rough pottery comes from the ancient Mycenaean civilization that we often say was ancient Greece 1000 years ago.

Because the excavation was conducted through formal means this time, Liang En and the others were also accompanied by a staff member from the Greek archaeological department.

In addition to supervising Liang En's excavation work, one of the most important tasks of this archaeologist is to help Liang En and the others contact the locals and recruit the people they need.

Also because this time it was a completely formal excavation work, Liang En and the others did not dig directly, but waited in the village for two days to recruit more than 300 workers.

Although it is easier to recruit people in Greece than imagined because of the high local unemployment rate, it is also a fact that the labor efficiency of local workers is lacking.

Fortunately, all the expenses of hiring workers can be reimbursed this time, so Liang En simply adopted the crowd tactics, hoping to dig out what he was looking for in the shortest possible time.

At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of the archaeological site, Liang En also found two police patrol cars through the professional to avoid any problems.

Although archaeology is a very professional job, there are a lot of work on the archaeological site that can actually be handed over to ordinary people. For example, the cleaning of the thick accumulation layer on the top is actually a simple physical labor. That's all.

What Liang En didn't expect was that on the afternoon of the first day of excavation, Liang En recruited a group of unexpected reinforcements: the Huaxia archaeological team in Crete is willing to send a group of people to provide support.

This support is actually a bit of luck, because Huaxia hopes to let as many people as possible master this kind of overseas archaeological experience through personnel rotation, so every group of people who stay in Crete for a short time will be rejected. Rotate back.

So when they learned that Liang En and the others were trying to carry out a new archaeological excavation, the Huaxia archaeological team immediately expressed their willingness to send a group of professionals to join him as Liang En's temporary employees.

The other party even said that if Liang En needed it, Huaxia would send an entire archaeological team to assist in the excavation in a week.

This is actually a win-win situation. Huaxia can not only train its own team, but also show friendship to Liang En.And Liang En will get a very professional archaeological team.

Because of the help of a large number of people, and because Liang En could provide guidance through the local terrain and the pictures he saw in his previous life, Liang En and the others dug to the famous Mycenae Lion's Gate on the second day of digging.

Now the city they are digging on the mountain is actually the Acropolis. It may be a palace or a temple at ordinary times. Only in times of war, will the surrounding people be admitted into the city for defense, while other parts of the city are surrounded by this city. Hills build.

The Lion Gate is the gate of the Acropolis. Judging from what everyone concentrated on clearing up, there are solid stone walls on both sides of the gate. The protruding part on the left is parallel to the city wall on the right. The entrance to the city forms a small space.

For the ancient city walls, the biggest weakness was naturally the city gates, so the defenders would also consciously strengthen the defense of the city gate area, such as the current design of the city gates.

Two walls on both sides of the city gate, one left and one right, together with the city gate form a semi-enclosed structure, so that the attacker will be attacked from three sides when attacking.

At the same time, the narrow space also made it impossible for the attackers to deploy their troops to take advantage of this advantage even if they had a huge advantage in troops. They could only line up in a long line to launch an attack with a small number of troops.

After thousands of years of ups and downs, the city gate has become dilapidated and incomplete due to the erosion of time, but the rough appearance cannot hide the exquisite design of the artisans of the past:
Two stout columns of stone carried the same heavy, slightly arched stone beam, above which was an arch of boulders, in which a triangular boulder happened to fit.

The concave arc at the bottom of this huge stone has made it stand firmly on the city gate of Mycenae for more than 30 centuries, and it has not changed until today, and the core of the entire city gate is here. triangle stone.

On the front of the boulder is a group of reliefs: two symmetrical lions stand on the altar, one on the left and one on the right. In the middle stands a pillar that looks like the later Doric style. destroyed.

"Great discovery, this is definitely a great discovery." The old man who was the leader of the first batch of Huaxia archaeological team sighed when he saw this unexquisite relief.

"This should be the real ancient city of Mycenae, because only the legendary city can be worthy of this city gate relief—"

"That's right! This relief was not carved on it casually." Liang En looked at the relief on the triangular stone and said. Since the last time he was archaeological in Crete, he had learned about the Mycenaean civilization, so naturally Know the metaphors for these patterns.

Among them, the lion symbolizes force, that is, the guardian of the city.It can also be judged from this that the Mycenaean civilization may have been influenced by Mesopotamia and Egypt, and even came from the East at the earliest, because there are no lions on the Greek peninsula.

The pillars standing on the altar are the religious belief of the city, and also a kind of nature worship, that is, the worship of trees.The tree means family and blood relationship, so at least in the Mycenaean era, family concept and blood relationship culture still dominated.

This can also be seen from the famous "Homer's Epic". According to the description in the book, many activities of those heroes revolve around blood.

This is also the difference between the Mycenaean culture and the later Greek culture, because in the ancient Greek civilization, although the ancient Greek city-states also valued blood, there were almost no mainstream kings who inherited blood.

After simple measurements, Liang En and the others determined that the gate was made of monolithic pillars, 3.5 meters wide and 3.5 meters high, allowing cavalry and chariots to pass through. It should be the most important gate of the Acropolis at that time.

The lintel on the door is a huge stone with a thickness of about 90 cm in the center and a weight of 20 tons.

A triangular stone slab is inlaid in the middle of the stack of coupons, and a triangular stone slab relief of two lions is carved on it.At the same time, this stacked coupon is also one of the earliest known coupon-shaped structural relics in the world.

The discovery of this gate excited everyone, because it proved that the locality was not a so-called medieval castle, but the legendary ancient city of Mycenae as Liang En said.

(End of this chapter)

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