ALL NOVEL Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 993 The whereabouts of the text
Chapter 993 The whereabouts of the text
Whether it is the discovery of a large number of gold treasures or the international recognition of Erlitou culture, it is something to be excited about, so the banquet prepared by the Huaxia archaeological team tonight can be said to be extremely rich.
Although it is said that the traditional Sichuan cuisine is not mainly spicy, but today Shu cuisine has broken the traditional barrier and started to integrate, so even if it is mainly official cuisine, the Shu cuisine here also incorporates many modern styles, such as There are many spicy dishes.
"It's very good. I haven't eaten such a good dish since I left Shudu last time." Jeanne spoke highly of this banquet, or he likes any dish with a lot of spices, let alone This tastes good to me.
"Of course, this is a chef who came from the capital of Shu. The restaurant he opened in Istanbul always has a long queue at the door, and there are also a group of celebrities who are willing to visit the restaurant."
Professor Liu said with some pride that he naturally knew the identity of Joan of Arc, so he was very happy that the future duke liked his country's food.
Because it has been a while since she came to this world, Joan of Arc is no longer in the state that she likes as long as she puts enough spices.
Although Joan of Arc still has an extraordinary love for all kinds of spices, but now she is also starting to pay attention to some things other than spices.
And this chef just fits the taste of Joan of Arc now. The food he cooks is delicious enough from any angle, allowing people to enjoy the good side of food.
At the same time, the environment for eating is also very good, because the area of the temporary prefabricated houses is too small, so they simply eat in the backyard outside the room.
However, this is just right and wrong. Compared with the somewhat cramped room, this kind of backyard where you can see the stars when you look up, and the sea and hills when you turn your head is obviously more suitable for everyone to celebrate and have dinner.
Perhaps because of the delicious food and the environment, everyone seemed very relaxed, so in addition to starting to talk about some serious topics, most of the time at the banquet everyone was talking about some lighter content.
Of course, there are some things like jokes in these light-hearted contents, but because of the surrounding environment, everyone quickly shifted the topic to history.
"Now there is a very important question, that is why there is no text found in this place." Professor Liu said that the most important problem found in this exploration is also the one that feels the most wrong.
To be honest, if this is just an ordinary village relic, then it is normal that no documents have been found.
Because that kind of self-sufficient closed society has very little flow of people, wealth, or other things, so simply relying on people's memory is enough.
But it would be strange if a central city like Troy didn't have any document records, because the management of this type of city has far exceeded the scope of direct human jurisdiction, so it must have records before it can be governed.
The most important thing is that the era of Troy was not alone. Whether it was the Hittites in the east or the Crete in the west, there were a lot of civilizations and mature texts, so they had enough content to learn from.
"I think there are two possibilities. Either there used to be text, but it was completely destroyed consciously." Liang En put forward the first conjecture after thinking for a while.
"For example, the ancient Mayan writing, as well as some writing on small islands in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Those colonists systematically destroyed the local civilization, and also destroyed the writing as the carrier of civilization."
"This is unlikely, because it takes a long-term and large-scale effort to destroy a kind of writing. For the enemies of Troy, they just came to rob and leave after robbing. They simply don't have that much time and energy to do it." this matter."
After hearing Liang En's first conjecture, Professor Liu shook his head and denied it, because his conjecture did not match the known facts, so he could basically judge that the conjecture was wrong.
"And in the early days of human beings, neither national consciousness nor religious consciousness was as strong as in the later era, so there is no need to adopt this method to change culture."
"What you said makes sense." Liang En nodded in agreement with Professor Liu's statement, because these two reasons are very reasonable and have been repeatedly confirmed all over the world.
To give a simple example, people once excavated the tombs of the nobles of the ancient Huns, but they still cannot determine what the ancient Huns looked like.
Because the human bones excavated from the cemetery were found to be of both white and yellow races after DNA testing, it can be called an ethnographic museum.
And this is also a normal state on the grassland. When the Huns were strong, all the people on the grassland were Huns, but after the rise of Xianbei, the people on the grassland became Xianbei again.
That is to say, the national consciousness in ancient society was far inferior to today's, so even if it was really a means of reducing resistance to destroy civilization, it would not need to take such a time-consuming and labor-intensive method.
"If it's not for this reason, then I think the most likely reason is that there are indeed records, but they don't like to use clay tablets or stones to record information, but choose some perishable organic matter." Liang En continued.
"We can even go a step further and suspect that what they used was not words, but something more exotic to record those histories, such as some special ropes or knots."
This is not Liang En's guess, but history has proved it. For example, the Inca Empire was like this. They were a civilization without writing, and they recorded things by knotting alpaca wool threads of different colors and thicknesses. .
The same is true of the Indians, whose note-cords are strips of a beaded cord of purple and white shell-pearls, or strips of various-coloured shell-beads.
Its significance lies in that certain beads are connected with certain facts, so that various events are arranged in series and people can remember them accurately.These bead strips and belts are the only documents of the Iroquois.
But the problem is that these things need to be accompanied by trained interpreters who can interpret the various records recorded on the belt from the beads and graphics on the bead belt.
Therefore, after encountering the massacre of the colonists, these ropes quickly became completely dead characters, which cannot be restored even today.
In addition, Huaxia also used this method in very ancient times, such as "Yi."Xi Ci Xia" records that "in ancient times, people tied ropes to rule, and later saints changed it with books." This sentence also left behind the idiom "knotting things with knots".
So according to Liang En's analysis, Troy is very likely to look like this, so people simply can't find anything that may really exist from the pile of organic matter that has begun to carbonize.
"If that's the case, it's possible." Professor Liu quite agrees with this conjecture, "Also, almost all people who could read were gathered in the city at that time, so after the war, their method of recording various items was lost. .”
(End of this chapter)
Whether it is the discovery of a large number of gold treasures or the international recognition of Erlitou culture, it is something to be excited about, so the banquet prepared by the Huaxia archaeological team tonight can be said to be extremely rich.
Although it is said that the traditional Sichuan cuisine is not mainly spicy, but today Shu cuisine has broken the traditional barrier and started to integrate, so even if it is mainly official cuisine, the Shu cuisine here also incorporates many modern styles, such as There are many spicy dishes.
"It's very good. I haven't eaten such a good dish since I left Shudu last time." Jeanne spoke highly of this banquet, or he likes any dish with a lot of spices, let alone This tastes good to me.
"Of course, this is a chef who came from the capital of Shu. The restaurant he opened in Istanbul always has a long queue at the door, and there are also a group of celebrities who are willing to visit the restaurant."
Professor Liu said with some pride that he naturally knew the identity of Joan of Arc, so he was very happy that the future duke liked his country's food.
Because it has been a while since she came to this world, Joan of Arc is no longer in the state that she likes as long as she puts enough spices.
Although Joan of Arc still has an extraordinary love for all kinds of spices, but now she is also starting to pay attention to some things other than spices.
And this chef just fits the taste of Joan of Arc now. The food he cooks is delicious enough from any angle, allowing people to enjoy the good side of food.
At the same time, the environment for eating is also very good, because the area of the temporary prefabricated houses is too small, so they simply eat in the backyard outside the room.
However, this is just right and wrong. Compared with the somewhat cramped room, this kind of backyard where you can see the stars when you look up, and the sea and hills when you turn your head is obviously more suitable for everyone to celebrate and have dinner.
Perhaps because of the delicious food and the environment, everyone seemed very relaxed, so in addition to starting to talk about some serious topics, most of the time at the banquet everyone was talking about some lighter content.
Of course, there are some things like jokes in these light-hearted contents, but because of the surrounding environment, everyone quickly shifted the topic to history.
"Now there is a very important question, that is why there is no text found in this place." Professor Liu said that the most important problem found in this exploration is also the one that feels the most wrong.
To be honest, if this is just an ordinary village relic, then it is normal that no documents have been found.
Because that kind of self-sufficient closed society has very little flow of people, wealth, or other things, so simply relying on people's memory is enough.
But it would be strange if a central city like Troy didn't have any document records, because the management of this type of city has far exceeded the scope of direct human jurisdiction, so it must have records before it can be governed.
The most important thing is that the era of Troy was not alone. Whether it was the Hittites in the east or the Crete in the west, there were a lot of civilizations and mature texts, so they had enough content to learn from.
"I think there are two possibilities. Either there used to be text, but it was completely destroyed consciously." Liang En put forward the first conjecture after thinking for a while.
"For example, the ancient Mayan writing, as well as some writing on small islands in Africa and the Pacific Ocean. Those colonists systematically destroyed the local civilization, and also destroyed the writing as the carrier of civilization."
"This is unlikely, because it takes a long-term and large-scale effort to destroy a kind of writing. For the enemies of Troy, they just came to rob and leave after robbing. They simply don't have that much time and energy to do it." this matter."
After hearing Liang En's first conjecture, Professor Liu shook his head and denied it, because his conjecture did not match the known facts, so he could basically judge that the conjecture was wrong.
"And in the early days of human beings, neither national consciousness nor religious consciousness was as strong as in the later era, so there is no need to adopt this method to change culture."
"What you said makes sense." Liang En nodded in agreement with Professor Liu's statement, because these two reasons are very reasonable and have been repeatedly confirmed all over the world.
To give a simple example, people once excavated the tombs of the nobles of the ancient Huns, but they still cannot determine what the ancient Huns looked like.
Because the human bones excavated from the cemetery were found to be of both white and yellow races after DNA testing, it can be called an ethnographic museum.
And this is also a normal state on the grassland. When the Huns were strong, all the people on the grassland were Huns, but after the rise of Xianbei, the people on the grassland became Xianbei again.
That is to say, the national consciousness in ancient society was far inferior to today's, so even if it was really a means of reducing resistance to destroy civilization, it would not need to take such a time-consuming and labor-intensive method.
"If it's not for this reason, then I think the most likely reason is that there are indeed records, but they don't like to use clay tablets or stones to record information, but choose some perishable organic matter." Liang En continued.
"We can even go a step further and suspect that what they used was not words, but something more exotic to record those histories, such as some special ropes or knots."
This is not Liang En's guess, but history has proved it. For example, the Inca Empire was like this. They were a civilization without writing, and they recorded things by knotting alpaca wool threads of different colors and thicknesses. .
The same is true of the Indians, whose note-cords are strips of a beaded cord of purple and white shell-pearls, or strips of various-coloured shell-beads.
Its significance lies in that certain beads are connected with certain facts, so that various events are arranged in series and people can remember them accurately.These bead strips and belts are the only documents of the Iroquois.
But the problem is that these things need to be accompanied by trained interpreters who can interpret the various records recorded on the belt from the beads and graphics on the bead belt.
Therefore, after encountering the massacre of the colonists, these ropes quickly became completely dead characters, which cannot be restored even today.
In addition, Huaxia also used this method in very ancient times, such as "Yi."Xi Ci Xia" records that "in ancient times, people tied ropes to rule, and later saints changed it with books." This sentence also left behind the idiom "knotting things with knots".
So according to Liang En's analysis, Troy is very likely to look like this, so people simply can't find anything that may really exist from the pile of organic matter that has begun to carbonize.
"If that's the case, it's possible." Professor Liu quite agrees with this conjecture, "Also, almost all people who could read were gathered in the city at that time, so after the war, their method of recording various items was lost. .”
(End of this chapter)
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