Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"Report it quickly." Looking at these various trinkets made of gold and semi-precious stones, Liang En immediately asked the Greek workers who came with them to report this matter to the local archaeological department.

Because the current situation has been completely different from what was planned, even Liang En himself did not expect that he would be able to unearth such precious things in the first excavation.

In particular, the patterns on these jewelry and gold are basically related to cows and horns. It is difficult not to remind people of the legends about the Minos Labyrinth and the Minotaur in ancient Greek legends.

You know, there are some important relics in this world that have not been discovered, so everyone generally believes that the legend is just a legend. Therefore, these cow-related jewelry combined with this relic can even be said to be subversive to the entire archaeological world.

More importantly, the greatest value of these ruins on Crete is that it is the oldest civilization in Europe, so it will definitely be sensational once discovered.

This is why Liang En changed his plan after digging these things and chose to immediately take photos of these jewelry, archive them, and report them to the Greek Archaeological Department.

Because these things are so precious, Liang En is worried that something dangerous will happen if they are reported in two weeks as planned. After all, money touches people's hearts, and it is really not safe to have so many things in your hands.

It has to be said that there is a certain reason why Greece is considered one of the five European pig countries. Even though Liang En sent a very detailed notice to the cultural relics management department, the other party also said that only one registration of Liang En's report would be carried out on Saturdays and Sundays. No one will be sent here.

"This is terrible, but it can be considered the norm for us in Greece." Angelos had a look of helplessness on his face. "These people have high wages and high benefits, but they can get off work at two o'clock in the afternoon, and they can even receive pensions when they are 40 years old."

The lazy attitude of Greek official staff and even the Greek farm workers can't stand it. After all, they work many more hours than these staff, but receive much less wages and benefits.

But no matter how much everyone complained, it had become a certainty that they had to stay on the mountain for two days and could not be changed. So after getting angry, everyone quickly made arrangements for these two days.

After all, the excavation work has begun now. It will be very troublesome if someone comes and snatches treasures from the ruins, so a 24-hour patrol arrangement is necessary.

Just when Liang En was about to continue digging and dig out the thing marked on the previous card, Joan of Arc also put her mobile phone on a stabilizer and prepared to take pictures.

Liang En's habit of filming or even live broadcasting the excavation process or excavation content started when he dug up a Japanese drug hiding place in the Philippines. It was mainly to find ways to gain some support from the public when he discovered something difficult.

As a result, after Joan of Arc came, she felt that this new media that could help her protagonist Liang En become famous was very interesting, so she normalized filming and publishing.

As for the released content, it is mainly about Liang En's work. For example, after the last jewelry launch conference, they put Liang En's process of designing these jewelry on the Internet with the permission of the company.

Unlike those so-called treasure hunters, Liang En's excavation work is all carried out under legal circumstances, so naturally there is no taboo about taking videos or even live broadcasting while doing the excavation work.

Although there was almost zero interaction between Liang En and the audience during this kind of filming, it attracted a group of die-hard viewers because it was realistic enough.

What surprised Liang Endu was that although he updated irregularly and the content of each update was not related in any way, there were actually more than 200,000 people following him on YouTube.

The reason why there is such a high number of followers is also very simple, because both painting and archaeological excavation are highly professional jobs, which are very rare for ordinary people, so they come to see what is new. There are naturally a lot of people.

More importantly, Liang En is not the kind of unknown person. Whether he is deciphering ancient Egyptian texts or discovering ancient American colonies that were Vikings, he has gained a lot of fame. Naturally, some people are willing to watch his videos.

"Okay, let's start the live broadcast." Liang En nodded to Joan to express that he was ready, and then went down to the pit to start the afternoon work.

In the first half hour, Liang En dug out a few dyed clay beads and a leaf made of gold foil. However, as the excavation progressed, there was no longer pure soil underneath, but a large number of broken ceramic parts.

These items look like Barbie doll parts, and one of the items previously shown on the card is hidden among the pile of debris.

After squatting by the pit and collecting the marked fragments, Liang En discovered that these fragments should come from a statue of a god, but the damage was a bit serious.

Judging from the current pile of things, this pottery statue should be a goddess statue. Wearing a large open-breasted dress, her breasts are exposed. At the same time, the posture seems to be holding a golden snake with its head raised upward in each hand.

For unknown reasons, the statue was severely damaged, missing its left arm, the lower half of the snake on its right hand, and most of its skirt.

But even through only the remaining parts, Liang En recognized that this thing should be a representative cultural relic in the Minoan palace, known as the statue of the goddess holding the snake.

"Maybe the world is different." Thinking about the complete statue in his mind, and then looking at the incomplete statue in his hand, Liang En felt that this difference was probably caused by the small differences in different worlds.

But what actually happened was that the statue in Liang En's previous world was even missing one head when it was discovered, and it was not what it looked like in the widely circulated photo.

The statue that people usually see is actually the result of the "restoration" of Halvor Bagge, the Danish artist who discovered Ivens in the Minoan Labyrinth at that time, and contains a lot of fabricated elements.

Although the fact that the famous statue was damaged made Liang En feel a little uncomfortable, at the same time, he didn't know the truth of the matter in the other world.

But as a professional in this field, he soon realized that what he had seen before was probably the result of restoration, not the way it was dug out.

This practice is actually very common in the West. Different from the traditional practice in the East of restoring the old as before, the West sometimes prefers to restore the original state of cultural relics when it comes to restoration.

However, because different eras have different understandings of some archaeological relics, superfluous or pretentious parts can often be seen in many early restored cultural relics.

Taking the Minos Palace as an example, all the above-ground buildings seen in the other world were actually restored by Evans through guesswork.

This resulted in the use of a large number of modern materials similar to reinforced concrete during the restoration process, and there were a lot of conjectures. Among them, the large-scale disturbance of the ruins meant that people may never be able to restore what the Minoan palace really looked like. .