Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 755 Uruk

"It seems that my guess is right." Liang En nodded in satisfaction after looking at the clues obtained through the key image search and checked them several times. "I think I know what this place is now."

"Really, what is this place?" Joan asked excitedly, because she knew that once this problem was solved, their archaeological work should be considered a successful completion.

"Uruk" Liang En said, pointing to the name he had entered just now. "If these written records are correct, then this is the legendary city of Uruk"

The Mesopotamia where Uruk is located is the seat of the earliest human civilization.As early as about 3400-3100 BC, the Sumerians established civilization here.

They slowly expanded from the center of Uruk, and the Uma Kingdom was established around 2400 BC. At that time, the king Lugal-Gilgamesh established a horizontal city with Uruk as the capital. A great kingdom straddling two river basins.

However, after the glory of Uruk, Ur and other city-states gradually declined, the Mesopotamia experienced the conquest and rule of the Akkadians in the north. At one time, there were many regimes and frequent changes.

Until the 19th century BC, a new force established Babylonia in the city of Babylon in the northwest of Uruk, which was known as the ancient Babylonian Dynasty in history.

Then a hundred years passed, and in the 18th century BC, Babylon completely conquered the Sumerians and Akkadians and unified the Mesopotamia.

In this process, the weakened Uma Kingdom was annexed, and the city of Uruk was also occupied by the Kingdom of Akkad. However, Uruk, the original capital, was still an important city during this period.

In the subsequent history, Uruk has been going downhill. In the third century AD, after the Sasanian Persian dynasty occupied the city, the whole city gradually declined until it was completely abandoned in the seventh century AD.

But I have to say that the city lived long enough, from 3000 BC to the seventh century AD, until after being involved in the war, the two rivers flooded, the river was diverted, and the irrigation system was damaged, resulting in salinization of the soil, which was not suitable for human habitation. was abandoned.

In another world, this relic was discovered by the Germans at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, and then gradually restored the history of the city, but in this world, Liang En and the others rediscovered the city from history people.

Prior to this, there were records of the city in relics found elsewhere, but because of the local chaos, no one had ever found and determined the relics of the city.

According to the results of the current investigation, the characters discovered here should be regarded as the earliest characters of human beings.At least a few hundred years earlier than previous writings found in Ur.

From a historical point of view, this is a very important discovery.Because the invention of characters overcomes the limitations of time and space in language communication, so that the fleeting language can be "spread in different places and stay in different times", which is conducive to communication.

At the same time, writing can better record human cultural activities and pass on knowledge through written language. If language enables human beings to get rid of the instinctive lifestyle of animals, then writing enables human beings to enter a civilized state from a primitive ignorance.

But for ordinary people in modern times, the most important impression of this city comes from the son of Lugarbanda, the fifth king of Uruk, Gilgamesh.

Although the Sumerians stepped onto the stage of history early, their civilization was more delicate than imagined.However, with developed civilization and mature writing, they lack the concept of recording history books.

As a result, many important figures were buried in obscurity, and it was not until around 1900 BC that someone verified and recorded the rulers of the first dynasty of Uruk.Among them, the identity card of Gilgamesh, the fifth-generation monarch of the first dynasty of Uruk, the most famous today, is confirmed by the Sumerian King List.

Although there are not many records of Gilgamesh's actions, shortly after his death, many city-states in Sumer appeared his temples and worshiped him as a god.

Some rulers even raised their status by marrying him, which shows that this king is indeed admired.At the same time, folklore also emerges in endlessly.

In many ruins throughout the Mesopotamia, people have found short stories about it written on boards in hieroglyphs in the past hundreds of years.In the Babylonian period, some people compiled these short stories and wrote them into long narrative poems, which is the famous "Epic of Gilgamesh".

One of the clay tablets that Liang En and the others put together was a short story dedicated to gods, but at the end of the story it was mentioned that the god was worshiped in the hometown of Gilgamesh, which proved from the side that this place is Ugly. rook.

In addition, their previous large-scale survey found the ruins of the walls of Uruk that had been reduced to a series of unremarkable mounds, and another clay tablet distributing beer specifically mentioned that they were for the renovation of Gilgamesh. work on the lower walls.

"Uruk, Gilgamesh, it seems that we should have found the origins of some of the oldest human legends this time." After reviewing all the existing evidence, Liang En said to Joan with a smile.

"It's definitely a valuable find because people have been trying to find detailed records of the king since the discovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh a century ago."

"It's a pity that after entering the 20th century, the entire Mesopotamia has been in chaos for a long time. So we didn't really find this legendary relic until now."

"Sounds good, because a famous relic is obviously more valuable than an unfamous relic, at least in the field of publicity." Joan of Arc nodded and said.

"More importantly, the Golden Dawn should be very happy. Because from the perspective of mysticism, this should be regarded as a real mythical relic. Maybe they can find some things that ordinary historians can't find from their own perspective. s things."

The thing that Joan of Arc cannot find here is definitely not supernatural power. After all, this thing does not exist in this world, but compared with ordinary historians, they are indeed the world's top experts in mythology and folklore research.

In ancient times, worshiping the gods was very important, even more important than ordinary agricultural and animal husbandry production, so understanding this aspect of knowledge can be said to have solved at least half of the city's mysteries.

Sure enough, when Liang En disclosed his discovery, the whole camp erupted in joy, because for everyone, it was definitely an exciting thing to find such a relic that could be recorded in the annals of history. ,

This is especially true for the Golden Dawn, they said that they would mobilize their strength to join the work here as quickly as possible, because this is definitely the most attractive thing to them.

For example, the two professors of the Golden Dawn who are here now are like this. After learning this, they immediately gave up the original inspection of the temple, and went to the north of everything to start researching the city wall.

The reason is also very simple, because this city wall was built by Gilgamesh himself in the epic, and it is also the only historical achievement, so they hope to take this opportunity to get in close contact with the gods.

(End of this chapter)