Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 498 Plan
"Is it really okay to sign books online?" Hearing the comments from the editor in charge of Bloomsbury Publishing House, Liang En showed a puzzled expression on his face.

The reason for his confusion is also very simple. After all, in his impression, book signing means sitting there alone and signing his name on the books for those who bought his own books, and this naturally needs to be done face to face. .

Therefore, Liang En is naturally puzzled by this kind of online book signing. In his opinion, the practice of signing books without the two parties face to face gives people a feeling of cutting corners, and it is likely to damage their own reputation. reputation.

"It may not be okay for other people, but it should be fine for you." The editor in charge thought for a while and said, "After all, you are different from other authors, and I believe your readers should also know and understand. The situation in this regard."

"And I think the most important point is that if you are willing to share a little bit of your daily work with your readers, not only will they not have any disgust, but they will be more interested in you."

"—Your proposal is indeed very valuable." After the editor-in-chief finished speaking, Liang En quickly fell into thinking, but he quickly reacted and expressed his approval of the editor-in-chief's idea .

Because now is the Internet age, attention is paid to eyeball effects, and watching an author gradually dig out those lost civilizations at the archaeological site is obviously a very eye-catching thing, and it can naturally bring enough benefits.

Of course, another important reason why he agrees with the other party's point of view is that this archaeological operation has been completely open from the beginning, so even if it is broadcast live, there will not be too many problems.

So Liang En quickly reached an agreement with the publishing house, expressing that he agreed to the other party's corresponding filming of his next expedition work, and he would cooperate with them as much as possible.

Of course, this kind of cooperation was based on the premise that the other party would not interfere with the excavation work. After all, for Liang En, the work of archaeology and treasure hunting was the most important, and other tasks were only auxiliary.

At the same time, for the live broadcast, Liang En also prepared some gifts at the suggestion of the editor in charge: 200 hardcover copies of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", as well as 100 copies of "Polar Evil" and the latest book "Dracula". Prepare to draw prizes for the audience.

Being able to gain something in writing is naturally a pleasant thing, but how to bring the whole group to the destination has now become a big problem for Liang En.

Although Liang En basically judged where these things were fished out from the cards, it would be difficult to explain to others if he only said that he judged this place.

But what Liang En didn't expect was that when he was racking his brains to find a reasonable excuse, the National Museum of Ireland helped him find the best excuse for the next step.

Because the museum communicated with the Greek officials through the information given by Liang En, and obtained a series of information about the criminal gang during the communication.

What's interesting is that although this is a criminal gang, they still used their real names when they entered Greece. After all, for this group of criminals, if there are too many fakes, there will be more loopholes.

Therefore, through the search of Greek officials, the museum soon learned that the most likely location of the crime gang was the Cyclades Islands in Greece.

Although it can only be confirmed that the group of people entered the archipelago, it is not possible to confirm where the other party dug up these things, but as professional historians, everyone can roughly guess the scope of the other party's activities.

This is mainly because the level of human navigation was very low in the era when copper ingots were produced and transported, so the routes were also very fixed. Therefore, as long as the approximate range is locked, the search area can be reduced to a small space.

"Let's fly to Athens first, and then take a boat to the Cyclades Islands." A week later, Liang En sat on the plane in Athens and introduced the next action to Fan Meng and Joan of Arc.

"If there is no accident, we will use Santorini as the base for this search and search around. So although we are out to carry out excavation work this time, we can also take the opportunity to take a good rest."

Santorini is actually the name of a ring of islands located in the Aegean Sea, the largest of which is called Santorini.Among historians, people often use the ancient city of Thira on this island to call this place.

The origin of this ancient name has become obscure, with ancient Greek historian Herodotus saying it came from a Spartan commander named Silas who was on the island in the first millennium BC The previous colony served as commander.

Before that, the island was named Calliste, which means beautiful. According to Herodotus, this was the name given by the Phoenicians.

However, this may also be a guess of Herodotus, because the word is standard Greek, and it is unlikely that the Phoenicians used other people's language to name their territory.

However, there is another legend that the earliest name of the island was called Strankili, which means round in Greek. This is more likely, because the island is a volcanic island, so it is true. It is round.

Santorini consists of 3 small islands, 2 of which are inhabited and the middle one is a sleeping volcanic island.Historically, there have been many volcanic eruptions here.

Among these volcanic eruptions, the one in the 16th or 17th century BC was the most severe. The center of the island collapsed in a large area, and the original circular island took on the crescent shape of today.

According to the research of those scholars now, this volcanic eruption is four or five times more violent than the largest volcanic eruption, the eruption of Krakto Volcano in Indonesia.

From Crete to Egypt to Turkey, many archaeologists and geologists have found pumice stones left after the eruption at the excavation site or in certain accumulation layers.

Because the volcanic eruption coincided with the destruction of the famous Cretan civilization, and the volcano was only 110km away from Crete, many people guessed that the destruction of the Cretan civilization was related to the eruption of this volcano.

With the excavation of the Minoan palace, the number of scholars supporting this guess has also increased.Because the traces found in the palace can clearly show the damage to the Minoan palace after the eruption and the rapid decline of the entire civilization.

As the history progressed, the island was once under the rule of Venice, and at that time it was renamed Santorini in 1207 in honor of Saint Eileen.

According to everyone's previous speculation, the copper blocks that Liang En found before probably came from an ancient shipwreck in the surrounding waters, because this island is just at the intersection of the routes from ancient Greece to Egypt and Crete to the Middle East. .

On the one hand, there are indeed many shipwrecks in this place, and on the other hand, even if those pirates want to carry out illegal operations, they often choose this place to ensure profits.

(End of this chapter)