Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 758 Successful Transportation

"—We can find that the most important ideas survived by the Sumerian language are probably religious. The cities like Ur and Uruk have bred a lot of ideas."

Academic speeches certainly do not just analyze the epic itself, so Liang En habitually moves from this epic to a broader direction, such as the influence of ancient Sumerian civilization on modern society.

"We can see how these ancient myths and ideas evolved into other religions in the Near East during the period between 2000 BC and 1000 BC.

"Although over the long history these things have evolved in different forms imperceptible to ordinary people, but after 4000 years the influence of these ideas has spread throughout the world.

To give the simplest example, in the epic "Gilgamesh", there is an idealized natural life form, the giant Enkidu, who is powerful and can get close to various animals.

But then he was sexually tempted by a temple "Saint", from innocence to depravity.Henceforth, although his end is civilization, he loses the joy of connection with the natural world.

The core of the content hidden in this story Many subsequent stories also showed the relationship between human beings and nature. In the eyes of human beings at that time, the price of moving towards civilization was to completely get rid of nature. "

"Of course, we know today that the way to get along with nature is to learn to coexist, but being able to transform nature in that era when people just came out of ignorance is indeed a symbol of civilization, and this is also an important step for our human beings to civilization."

"This is what the words we found this time mean to us. The grand civilization and human wisdom in the Mesopotamia 5000 years ago were passed down through the cuneiform characters created by the Sumerians."

"So for us, the greatest significance of this investigation is to find the city of Uruk, which is the origin of civilization. And this city will surely survive on the map of human history, and be remembered and interpreted."

Speaking of this, Liang En, who was emotionally aroused, thought of all the legends about the city he had seen in his previous life and this life, and then made a final conclusion.

"Yes, this city has indeed been completely annihilated in history, and the Sumerian civilization has also disappeared for thousands of years, but as long as human civilization survives, there must be successors."

wow——

After Liang En finished his speech, everyone applauded quickly, because this speech touched everyone's heart, especially the analysis of historical significance.

"That's very good, Mr. Liang." As the person in charge of the Iraqi side, Varda applauded and stood up. "Please allow me to turn your speech into words and use it in the exhibition area of ​​our museum."

"Ah, thank you so much." Liang En said with a bow with a smile. For him, it was indeed a proud and happy thing for him to have these things of his in a national museum.

Although Iraq is a country full of disasters, the overall situation is not very good because of the war that year, but the national museum is first-class.

Especially with the end of the war, these ancient museums have been revitalized after a long period of tidying up, and it is obviously a very honorable thing to leave your traces in such a museum.

There is no doubt that their discovery this time is very important, especially for Iraqis. This important discovery can indeed awaken the national pride in people's hearts.

Although they believe in the same religion, unlike those Arab countries, Iraq is a secular country, and the core of this country is nationalism besides religion.

So for this country, these are likely to come from their ancestors to help build their national self-esteem and self-confidence, and the meanings contained are naturally not just what scholars like Liang En and others have identified from their academic status.

Of course, this is not to say that these cultural relics are not important. On the contrary, even from a purely historical and academic point of view, this discovery can be regarded as one of the most important single-digit discoveries in the entire West Asia region within a century.

It's just that for this country, the value of these things is naturally not limited to academic value, so the day after Liang En delivered this speech, Baghdad sent a team to take these things away.

"Is this situation going to get a little bigger?" Looking at the huge convoy, Liang En turned his head and asked Varda beside him. "Is the scale so big!"

The reason why Liang En was surprised was also very simple, because besides the 12 trucks transporting goods, the convoy actually had two eight-wheeled armored vehicles, two trucks full of soldiers, and two anti-landmine ambush vehicles.

"Of course, when you went to dig that day, our national radio station sent people over to take pictures of the important cultural relics we unearthed this time and the records you wrote in Arabic." Varda explained in a low voice.

"These things made our news and caused a strong reaction. For these things, the Green Zone has issued a special order to bring these things back safely."

"So you sent a whole platoon plus armored vehicles?" Looking at the armed convoy in front of him, Liang En still felt that they were a bit too mobilizing.

"No way, after becoming famous, there will always be some extreme forces who want to destroy everything." Varda shook his head helplessly. "So in order to avoid their hands, we can only move these things heavily without prior notice."

In fact, the reason given by this unit when it came out was to transport a batch of important weapons, but it was only temporarily notified on the road to come over to transport these cultural relics.

"And what you see is only part of it." Looking at the soldiers and archaeologists who were packing and carrying the cultural relics, Varda said in a low voice. "We also have two drones overhead ready to provide adequate fire support."

"In addition to this, there should be additional air support, but these are not clear to me. But what I know is that we have made all the preparations for this cultural relic transportation."

Because of sufficient manpower, they completed all the loading and fixing work in half an hour, and drove towards Baghdad in the north after completing the last inspection. "

For the next day, in order to ensure the safety of this crucial delivery, all of them were asked to stop communicating with the outside world and were not allowed to leave the camp.

Fortunately, everything went very smoothly. That night, they saw on the news that the cultural relics were successfully transported to the National Museum of Iraq.

"We almost encountered an attack on the way." After answering a phone call, Varda chatted with Liang En about the transportation at night.

"A group of militants tried to ambush the convoy. Fortunately, the drone found them in advance and destroyed the convoy together with the plane that came later."

"I have to say that we were very lucky this time, because the group of terrorists who were preparing to attack also had two self-destructing cars. If we hadn't discovered them in advance and made preparations, the cultural relics this time would definitely not have been preserved."

(End of this chapter)