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Originally planned to return after discussing the order, but because of waiting for news from Baizilian Manor, the original plan had to be delayed.

But Peru has nothing to turn around. It's because he has just returned from the Inca ruins and has a keen interest in Inca, one of the three major civilizations in America. He is going to talk to an expert.

Experts are out of reach for ordinary people, but with Yang Cheng’s current identity, and Jose’s introduction from them, he soon met an archaeologist who specializes in the three major civilizations of the Americas—Dick Gill This red-necked man from Texas, USA, had no money with cowboys in his life, but had dealt with these mysterious civilizations for half his life. Now he settled in Lima to better study the Inca world.

But according to his words, Maya is more mysterious than Inca.

"Hello Dick~" Yang Cheng met this archaeological expert in a small courtyard on the outskirts of Lima.

With a messy white hair draped behind his head, reading glasses on the bridge of his nose, he looked at Yang Cheng seriously, and then said, "You are willing to provide me with research funds?"

Yang Cheng shrugged, "If there is no one else, it should be me~"

Looking over Dick Gill and looking inward, the standard American country style villa, but the floor that seems to have begun to decay, proves that Dick Gill’s life is not as good as it seems~

"How much are you willing to spend to fund my research. Let me say it first. Don't mention the 50,000 or 100,000 yuan. Isn't that bad?" The old man seemed to have no intention of inviting Yang Cheng in to talk, and he blocked the door and asked.

Yang Cheng was not annoyed, and thought this old man was quite interesting, "It depends on how much you can make me believe. The more you believe, the more funds you can get. Don’t worry, I can’t get 50,000 or 100,000. ."

Regal, those who have the money don’t know how to spend it well. They always have to cultivate their own hobbies. There are all kinds of strange things. For example, some people like to collect dinosaur fossils, and some people like to collect pirate treasures. Yang Cheng doesn’t know his hobbies. what.

But since he started in Egypt, he has been interested in treasure hunting. Of course, he is not obsessed with it, just as a hobby to satisfy his curiosity.

For this reason, spending tens of millions a year is considered entertainment, and it is not essentially different from spending a few hundred dollars on smoking.

"Come in, what do you want to hear?"

The old man's temper was good enough for Texas, he was so violent, he was still so cold in the face of someone who might become his own funder.

Yang Cheng is not surprised. Talented people have a weird temper. If you can accept his talent, you must understand his character. Genius is always different from ordinary people.

Followed Dick Gill into the house, let alone coffee, there was no cup of water, but saw a room messier than his hair. The coffee table, the sofa, the dining table, including the bookshelf, were piled with various documents and materials. There are some weird stones. If it weren't for satisfying curiosity, Yang Cheng would definitely not stay here for 10 minutes.

"Sit anywhere~" Dick Gill said casually, but the question is where is there a place to sit? There is not even a place to go.

For this reason, Hansen also drove everyone out, so as not to step on the expert's information, which is an important thing and can't afford to lose money.

Yang Cheng looked around, "I'll be fine standing~"

"Just talk, what do you want to hear?"

Yang Cheng is always hard to say casually, this is not ordering, he paused, and then said, "Just say you studied it recently?"

Dick Gill stood up immediately, pointed to the clue map on the blackboard next to the desk, and said, "I've been studying this recently~"

Yang Cheng leaned over to see that it was Maya writing?

It is worth mentioning that there are two major civilizations: Inca and Maya. Inca has its own language but not its own script, while the Mayans have its own script. This is a big difference.

"How much do you know about Maya?" Dick Gill seemed to return to class and asked Yang Cheng a question.

Yang Cheng was stunned and said, "That's too much, but it's all on the surface."

"Tell me?"

"For example~" Yang Cheng smiled bitterly, "It's up to you, I don't know where to start."

Dick gave him a very unceremonious look, "Then I will start from the most basic point. Up to now, almost the entire Mayan civilization has been shrouded in a layer of mystery, like deliberately rejecting humans to analyze it, or say It's like a black hole. You know it is there, but humans can't get in. They don't know what is inside.

Especially in the ninth century, hypotheses about Maya's demise were endless, such as natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.; epidemics, mass poisonings, and other infectious diseases; population expansion, repeated burning of forests and farming, resulting in poor soil and other economic problems. Said; even the invasion of foreign enemies, urban wars, peasant rebellions and other social problems, collective suicide, etc., are too many.

Although there are various hypotheses, there is no one with sufficient evidence to convince people. We will talk about the demise of the Maya in a moment.

Let's talk about the ancient Mayan civilization first.

In 1839, the explorer Stevens led a team to accidentally discover several magnificent pyramids, many wealthy palaces, and highly accurate calendars carved into stone slabs with strange hieroglyphs in the tropical rain forests of Central America.

It was also at this time that Maya civilization, known as the miracle of human civilization, slowly appeared in people's vision.

As one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century, the Mayan civilization immediately triggered a rare earthquake in the history of world archaeology as soon as it was announced!

Since John Stephens first discovered ancient Mayan civilization sites in the tropical jungles of Honduras, archaeologists from all over the world have discovered more than 170 abandoned ancient Maya cities in the jungles and wastelands of China and the United States. From the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, to Guatemala and Honduras in the south, to the Andes Mountains. "

Yang Cheng raised his hand, "I'm sorry, Professor Dick, let me interrupt, didn't I mean that there are still some Maya descendants living in the Yucatan Peninsula?"

Dick Gill was very dissatisfied that his words were interrupted, and glared at Yang Cheng, "Shut up when you didn't let you talk~"

Yang Cheng helplessly stretched out his hands to signal that he knew, and gave a look of "you continue".

Dick Gill pointed to a computer-reconstructed map on the blackboard and said, "This mysterious nation has built huge buildings of staggering scale in the tropical jungles of South America.

This is the majestic city of Tikal, and many modern city designers are also disappointed.

And this, Palenque Palace, built in the 7th century, is 100 meters long and 80 meters wide. It is hard to imagine how such a majestic building was built in that era of lack of technology.

This-the Governor's Mansion of Uxmal, composed of 22,500 stone carvings into elaborate patterns, is not bad.

Although the roof of the Samurai Temple in Chichen Itza has disappeared, the 1,000 stone pillars still reminiscent of the grandeur of the past.

But the most amazing thing is that the Maya people thousands of years ago had unparalleled mathematics skills and mysterious words. I am trying to learn and interpret these words. Once successful, I will push the Maya civilization into a brand new fan. door.

Moreover, the huge buildings in Chichen Itza, Tikal, Palenque and other places were not based on the actual needs of the Mayans, but were built strictly in accordance with the magical Mayan calendar cycle.

Do you know the Mayan calendar? "

Dick Gill asked again, and this time Yang Cheng answered without hesitation, "They divided the year into 18 months, a month and 20 days. They estimated the earth year to be 365.2420 days, and modern people estimate it to be 365.2422 days, with an error of only 0.0002. That is, the error of about 5000 years is only one day.

In addition, their estimated year of Venus is 584 days, which is only 7 seconds away from modern estimates in 50 years. "

Dick Gill's eyes flashed with excitement and enthusiasm, "Yes! What an incredible number!

You must know that thousands of years ago, the Maya did not work out how to feed themselves, and they came up with such a precise calendar calculation.

No one knows how to make it, because this kind of year is not based on the movement of any kind of celestial body observed on the earth, so some people think that this kind of calendar, called Zhuo Jinnian, is a Maya. The ancestors of is based on another planet we do not yet know.

The Mayans also mastered the number concept of'zero' at least in the 4th century BC, 800 to 1000 years earlier than you Chinese and Europeans. In addition, they also created the twentieth counting method, which can be used in numerical calculations. 4 million years later, can you believe it? "

Yang Orange shook his head in cooperation, nonsense, if he believed, what would Dick Gill say next? I must suffocate myself to death.

"It is necessary to know such huge astronomical figures, only in modern interstellar navigation and the calculation of the distance between stars.

Thousands of years ago, the Mayans used slash-and-burn cultivation, covering their bodies with leaves and using cocoa beans as a medium in exchange for objects. Such numerical calculations were simply useless for the Mayans.

According to this calendar, it can even be maintained after 400 million years.

In addition, their text ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is a pictograph composed of 800 symbols and graphics, with a vocabulary of up to 30,000.

They have exquisite carvings, paintings and art. However, before the birth of this highly advanced civilization, the Maya lived in tree dens and lived by gathering. How could this primitive tribe have such a high civilization? Are you not curious? "

It's time to nod this time. Of course Yang Cheng is curious. Why would you come to Dick Gill if you are not? Seems okay to spend money to play?

"The most important thing is, how did these Mayans suddenly perish with such a high degree of civilization? Is it really a natural disaster?"

Dick Gill pointed to a photo of a slate, "Also, on June 5, 1952, someone unearthed a slate with figures and patterns in the ruins of a temple in Palenque, an ancient Mayan city in the Mexican plateau. At that time, people only regarded it as a sculpture of ancient Mayan mythology.

But in the 1960s, after people took spacecraft into space, those American scientists who had participated in aerospace research suddenly realized that the original Palenque stone slab carved a picture of an astronaut driving a spacecraft! "

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