ALL NOVEL Chapter 988 Excavation
For Liang Ener, the threat of the Thule Association is like a lingering shadow. So during this period of time, he has been rushing to the archaeological site, hoping to find some key items and obtain new cards.
Because he has always had a hunch that the cards in this place are likely to cause huge changes in his strength. After all, this is the origin of Western myths and epics, so it is normal to have some different things.
For this reason, he has been staying at the excavation site during this period, and used his experience in his previous life to carry out excavation work in some key places, hoping to obtain cards as soon as possible.
Therefore, in a very short period of time, the scholars present, under the leadership of Liang En, found a large amount of valuable information, and through this information, they restored some very important clues to ancient Troy.
For example, they previously discovered that the walls of the fifth-layer Troy ruins were more than 4 meters thick, and some sections of the walls were even more than 9 meters high. However, the western section of the wall was very poorly constructed.
This is consistent with the description in Homer's epic, because in the epic it was specifically mentioned that the wall on the west side of Troy was of poor quality and there were some problems in its construction.
So some people present felt that this place was probably the real Troy, but the problem was that the construction time of this city did not match the time when the Trojan War broke out.
"I think this is probably a problem that occurred during the compilation of those epics." When it was Liang En's turn to express his opinion, he put forward a point of view that was relatively recognized by everyone in another world.
"One thing we can confirm is that Homer's epic is definitely not the personal creation of Homer alone, but an overall compilation of the epics of the past dark ages."
"So without enough written information and relying solely on word of mouth, many stories will gradually become exaggerated, deformed, and turned into stories that are different from the facts."
"So detailed issues like these are most likely the result of the fusion of multiple legends, because if it is just passed down by word of mouth, it is easy to ignore those details or imagine some details out of thin air."
"As a organizer of those poems, whether that person is Homer or someone else, when he puts those things back on paper, he will naturally notice the details lost in the process of singing, and at this time, he will naturally appropriate some information from other places. come over."
"At least before the establishment of Constantinople, this ancient city was often the economic center of the region, and the economic center was basically a cultural center in that era."
"As the cultural center of that era, cultural communicators such as bards were naturally indispensable. At the same time, there would also be a series of various poems written with this city as the background."
"It's just that compared to the Trojan War, the content of those poems may not be that important, so they were not able to survive in the end. Only some very fragmentary details have been passed down to this day through this method."
"That is to say, when Homer's epic was written, it actually took the Trojan War as the core part, and then incorporated a large number of other Troy-related epics to supplement the details, right?"
After Liang En finished explaining his point of view, a professor from Cambridge University asked him. He was the scholar who first proposed that the five layers may also be Troy in the epic poem.
"Yes, I think this is a very reasonable thing." Liang En nodded. “The details don’t matter if it’s just those minstrel shows, but it’s another thing to put it on paper.”
"As far as I know, the early histories of various countries were actually transferred from oral histories, which means that there are a large number of uncertain parts, and the addition of these detailed parts obviously cannot be all facts."
"What you said makes sense." The professor nodded in approval after thinking for a while. "So in addition to the general direction, it is understandable that there are some discrepancies in these details."
After explaining this problem, Liang En quickly left the makeshift discussion venue and headed to the scene, because he was now directing a group of people to excavate the second layer of the Trojan ruins.
Although most people focused on the sixth floor because they found some jewelry on the sixth floor during previous exploration, the famous jewelry in Liang En's memory should be on the second floor.
So just when everyone was running to excavate the sixth layer of ruins, Liang En and Jeanne led an archaeological team from China to start clearing the second layer of ruins.
"Professor Liu, I'm very sorry for dragging you here." Because the second layer of ruins is buried deeper, the cleanup work will naturally take longer, so Liang En naturally apologized to the Chinese scholar who he pulled over. .
After all, other archaeological teams dug up a lot of valuable things in a month, but this Chinese archaeological team had to keep cleaning up the ruins because of Liang En.
"What do you need to apologize for?" Professor Liu adjusted his glasses and said. "It has been a great pleasure to be involved in such a large-scale international excavation and during this time we have carried out detailed exploration of the ancient city."
"I can even say that compared to other archaeological teams, we are the archaeological team with the deepest understanding of this city now, because we have comprehensively analyzed the different levels of the entire ruins."
"This is the most important thing to us. After all, China also has a large number of this type of repeatedly accumulated relics, and now all our survey experience here can make full contributions to future archaeological work in China."
"As for the fact that no cultural relics were found, it is a bit regretful, but this is completely acceptable to us. After all, our mission is to learn something from this, not just to show off."
Although no important cultural relics were excavated during this period, because the required target was deep underground, the archaeological team from China almost completed a comprehensive exploration of the entire ruins at different levels.
Therefore, the professor can be said to be very satisfied with Liang En's arrangement, because they have accomplished the goals they set before coming here, even better than imagined.
"——Thank you very much for your support, Professor Liu." Liang En was stunned for a moment after hearing what the other party said, because it was completely different from what he imagined, but he quickly reacted.
"But I am not asking you to dig here just for a comprehensive exploration. To be honest, I am also an ordinary person. Naturally, I hope to dig out something that can attract everyone's attention."
"That's why I'm asking you to dig here now. After previous exploration, I think this place is likely to contain something important, so I hope that I can use your hands to dig out that thing."
"If there is one here, we will dig it out." Professor Liu nodded and said,
"And your prejudgment when demarcating the scope before was probably right, because we have already dug to the second level, and the area we are digging now should be within the scope of an important building at that time, and there is a high probability that there will be treasures there. .”