Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 750 Scientific Examination
In the further exploration of the site as a whole, Liang En and the others proved that there is not only a temple here, but a site of an entire city-state inhabited by humans.

In addition to the large-scale temple complex, remote sensing detection of the entire ruins and surrounding villages also revealed a large-scale water conservancy and irrigation network, including canals, canals, dams, weirs, reservoirs, and cisterns.

Judging from the distribution of villages, towns and urban ruins, people no longer completely relied on natural tributaries for water sources during this period, but began to rely on straight and long artificial canals intercepted by dams to ensure water supply.

The presence or absence of large-scale public construction projects has always been regarded as one of the important differences between city-states and settlements, because the construction and maintenance of large-scale public construction projects (such as the temple complex and irrigation system at this site) require the organization of a large number of non-governmental organizations. Agricultural laborers perform forced labor.

The existence of a large number of non-agricultural laborers is only possible if there is sufficient surplus of agricultural products, and only government departments can organize the recruitment of laborers to engage in such large-scale construction activities.

Taking the temple as an example, the temple in the ruins has an obvious Sumerian style: the temple is built on a multi-layered tower-shaped high platform, and the layers of stairs are built with huge stones to form a magnificent tower. architecture.

This pyramid-like stepped temple building is called "Jikura Tower".It has been found frequently in the ruins of Ur, Babylon, and Chaldea, the most famous of which is the famous Temple of the Moon in Ur.

Judging from the temple named the Great Pagoda Temple in the current ruins, this Uruk Great Pagoda Temple, which was completed around 3200 BC, is a typical representative of the Pagoda Temple.

There are four layers of earth platforms at the bottom of the Great Pagoda Temple, which are painted in four colors: black (represents the underworld), red (represents the world), blue (represents heaven), and white (represents the sun), and each layer is painted with exotic flowers and plants.

The uppermost layer is the sacrificial room of the temple, and the top of the tower temple is the observatory for the priests of the temple to watch the sky at night.At the same time, it also means to let the gods enter the world to enjoy sacrifices.

According to Liang En's discussion and speculation, the construction of this temple with the productivity at that time required about 1500 workers to work 10 hours a day, and it took 5 years of continuous work to complete it.

In addition to the magnificent pagoda temple, the same is true for other palaces in the relic temple area. For example, the Inlaid Cone Palace is built with precious local limestone, covering an area of ​​2900 square meters. .

The colonnade and double-sided staircase adopt the earliest mosaic inlay technology, inlaid with colorful gemstones, shells, copper pieces and pottery to form exquisite mosaic patterns, making the building more dazzling in the sun.

Although the mosaics here are just simple triangular patterns, the energy and materials spent in building such a building at that time were no less than today's space program.

Undoubtedly, the purpose of building such a magnificent and magnificent temple complex was to strengthen beliefs and make people feel that such a huge building could not be built by humans, but must have been built by gods.

This point has also been emphasized in Sumerian epics found in other regions, such as repeated descriptions that the temples in the city fell from the sky and were built by gods, thereby consolidating the theocratic rule of the Sumerian priesthood.

When the main force of the archaeological team was surveying the entire ruins, Liang En and several teams also carried out more in-depth research, and the method of research was to choose a site for excavation.

In the previous selection, Liang En, Joan of Arc, and Prince Aziz chose the ruins they named the White Temple as their excavation target. The temple was named so because of a white the walls.

This location was chosen by Liang En, because for Prince Aziz, he knew that his level in this area was almost zero. Considering that his goal was only to gain reputation, he chose to completely listen to Liang En, a professional in this regard.

The reason why Liang En chose this place was very simple, because he used his extraordinary power to perform a divination before setting off.And the result of divination told him that there would be some big discoveries here.

It has to be said that finding the target in such a large temple area is not a big deal, even the divination with such a vague final conclusion cleared all his legend points at once.

However, Liang En and the others found nothing in the first round of metal detector testing. Even though they brought high-grade metal detectors, they checked the entire top of the table and found that there was no metal reaction on the table.

"I remember that in the Sumerian era, they should be able to make copperware, and they could also smelt precious metals such as gold and silver." Joan of Arc, who finished the detection, looked puzzled. "Why is there nothing in this building that looks like a palace or a temple?"

"This may have something to do with the fact that humans have lived in this ruin for a long time." Liang En frowned and thought for a while and said, "So all valuable things have been taken away."

Fortunately, this situation also protects the site. Unlike the ruins of the Seleucid palace in the east, which was riddled with holes, there are no traces of artificial excavation on the slope here.

So they think there should be Dong XZ among the remains of this white temple, but those things are not metal, so they want to find some time.

Since the scientific method is temporarily ineffective, the metaphysics should be used. Fortunately, this place is not too big, so after using four [Detection (N)] cards, the core area of ​​the entire ruins has been covered by him. It was fully detected.

After counting the results of these inspections, Liang En found that there were actually two noteworthy places here, and they were both located near the center of the building.

This shows that there is a high probability that those things belong to the original items of these temples, and they are likely to be some items related to sacrifices. From a research perspective, such items can often bring a lot of information.

Soon, excavation began.Considering that this is above a very important ruins, even though they carry a lot of high-tech tools, they can only dig a little bit with shovels now.

"It turns out that archaeology is like this. It feels great." Prince Aziz said excitedly while digging with a small shovel. For him, there are not many opportunities to experience this personally, so this time he started It seemed very excited. "

"No, it's definitely not that simple. Yours is just an appearance." Liang En shook his head and said, he felt that he had better explain the matter clearly to this powerful prince, otherwise there may be unpredictable and bad consequences.

"Not to mention anything else, if you can't be as accurate as me, then you may have to dig a field the size of a football field with the shovel in your hand to find something of value."

"I understand. It's the same as finding the water source. It's not difficult to just dig a well on the ground. The real difficulty lies in finding where the water is?" After hearing what Liang En said, Prince Aziz nodded.

He just suddenly thought of that place and didn't react, but after Liang En reminded him, he quickly realized what was wrong with his cognition.

During the subsequent excavation process, the scene was much quieter, only the rustling sound of excavation remained. Everyone at the site devoted themselves to the excavation, and things did not change until night fell.

(End of this chapter)