ALL NOVEL Chapter 990 Treasure
Because there were many excavators and Liang En used his extraordinary power to change some underground conditions to make the excavation work more convenient, they dug to a depth of more than 5 meters after more than 20 days of excavation and found the city wall ruins.
The reason why the excavation is relatively slow is because as a professional archaeological team, they need to conduct detailed cleaning and recording for each layer they excavate, leaving enough information before they can excavate the next layer.
After lunch that day, Liang En and Jeanne each picked up a metal detector and jumped into the newly dug layer, and then began exploration.
Because Liang En only had fragmentary locations in his memory, he could only use clumsy methods to search bit by bit. However, compared with Schliemann, at least he had a metal detector, so his efficiency would be much higher.
"Let's check along the bottom of the city wall ruins first." Looking at the working surface, which was less than ten meters long, Liang En pointed to one side of the city wall and said to Joan of Arc, "Let's go to each side."
Soon, Liang En and the others began their exploration work along the corner of the city wall. Surprisingly, Liang En heard the buzzing sound in his earphones after taking less than three steps.
"You can't be so lucky, right?" Liang En used the metal detector to scan the area repeatedly, and at the same time, a thought came to his mind, because the current situation was really a coincidence.
Because Liang En and the archaeological team from China had already made a division before, that is, everyone took turns using metal detectors to detect and carry out exploration work. Everyone had the same time, and then took turns.
On the one hand, this is to break down the work and make it easier for everyone. On the other hand, it leaves the possible glory to fair luck, so that everyone has the opportunity to get the honor of digging up treasures.
After all, for Liang En, presiding over this excavation work has given him enough honor, so it doesn't matter who dug out the thing.
Because unlike the excavation of the entire Troy ruins, this only counts this very small part of the excavation, so there is no need to take advantage of every penny.
But what he didn't expect was that sometimes luck couldn't stop it when it came to his door. At least after their simple inspection, he could basically confirm that there were indeed many precious metal products buried in this place.
After finally determining the location of the unknown treasure, Liang En and the others immediately called the Chinese archaeological team resting nearby by radio, and then mobilized all manpower to start cleaning up the land.
Half an hour later, someone finally touched something hard with his shovel, and then started cleaning up the area. Soon, a large piece of soil mixed with a lot of golden light appeared in front of everyone.
"These things used to be put in boxes and then buried in the soil." Liang En whispered to Joan of Arc after looking at the gold jewelry piled there in regular order.
"We can tell from the appearance of these things, because only when they are placed in a box and the box slowly rots away can the things in the box look so orderly when they are unearthed."
However, this thing is not a square shape. This is mainly because the long time has caused these things to undergo certain changes even in the soil, so they appear less regular.
"What should we do next?" Looking at the pile of things that were gradually being cleared, Professor Liu, the leader of the Chinese archaeological team, walked to Liang En and asked. "Should we clean up directly on site, or -"
"Dig the whole thing up, and then put it in the experimental room next to it and clean it up bit by bit." Liang En said as he glanced at the other members of the archaeological team who started running around the pit to watch.
"I have observed that most of the cultural relics buried in this place are jewelry, and they are the top jewelry from ancient times, so they are likely to contain a large number of very small and delicate parts."
"If we excavate here, I am worried that some things may be lost through negligence, so it is the most appropriate way to go into the laboratory to clean these things."
"Of course, another important reason is that these things are not large or heavy, so we can easily transport these things and the surrounding soil directly away."
"You are right, let us do this." After Liang En finished his suggestion, Professor Liu nodded in agreement, and then began to arrange a series of equipment such as shelves, boxes, and winches.
But because this job is a very delicate job. So even though they knew exactly what they wanted to excavate, they stayed busy until early in the morning before returning the shimmering golden mud to the temporary laboratory.
It was already two o'clock in the morning when this thing was launched, but everyone was in a state of excitement. Even other scholars came to watch because they heard about it.
But for those people, this onlooker was really disappointing, because in order to avoid losing something, the pile of soil was wrapped with a thick layer of canvas, so they couldn't see what was inside?
So on the next day, a large group of scholars came to the temporary laboratory, and then gathered together to start the cleaning work.
Naturally, everyone welcomed these free laborers, so as the large piece of soil was peeled away bit by bit, everyone's excavation progress improved a lot, and then one piece of stuff was cleared out.
As they had guessed before, the jewelry inside was all very exquisite, and exquisiteness often meant that there were a lot of small parts in those jewelry.
Especially after such a long time, some of these things will inevitably twist, deform, break or even fall off, and then mix into the surrounding soil.
So in the following time, everyone even used fine mesh plugs used to sift flour, trying to clean out those small gold balls or gold wires, which were not much bigger than sesame seeds, from the soil.
Of course, a series of gems and semi-precious stones that were originally embedded in jewelry were also cleaned up. Because they had experienced too long a period of light, the surface of those gems had oxidation and erosion.
This makes these stones look a bit like the surrounding rubble fragments, so professionals must identify the fine stones one by one to ensure that every gem is picked out without missing anything.
Fortunately, there are now a large number of scholars gathered here, so after seeing this discovery, many very professional people naturally volunteered to help complete the cleanup work.
So with everyone's joint efforts, they completed all the cleaning work in just one week, and then simply classified the treasures.
"This is indeed a huge treasure." Looking at the dazzling array of treasures in the cabinet in front of him, he said in an emotional tone for the Turkish archaeological staff who had been accompanying them these days.
"I know these are not dug out of the ruins of Troy in the epic, but if I were to look at them, I think these treasures are worthy of the legendary rich Troy."