Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"What's the situation like around here?" After the construction of the camp was completed, Liang En asked Fan Meng, who was guarding the perimeter, with a walkie-talkie. "Is there anything wrong?"

"Everything is normal around us." Fan Meng's voice came from the intercom, "Wait a minute, a jeep is coming towards us -"

"How far is the distance?" After hearing this, Liang En asked and Joanne took out their weapons and walked out of the tent at the same time. When they just stepped out of the tent door, they saw Prince Aziz next door carrying a Walked out with an assault rifle and two bodyguards.

"It's less than 5 kilometers, and it's getting closer." As Fan Meng spoke, Liang En also saw the dust stirred up by the car.

At this time, the sandstorm had stopped. Liang En and the others were all quietly holding their weapons and staying on the position, because in such a plain area, if the opponent really came towards us, they would not be able to avoid it.

"Why are you here?" Liang En frowned as he looked at Prince Aziz lying next to him, and then looked at the two bodyguards behind him. "There's a good chance a real fight will break out here. You'd better get the prince to a safe place."

"I came here myself." Prince Aziz smiled and said, "And I have been on the battlefield as an infantry captain. At least in terms of military experience, I am probably stronger than you."

"Okay, then you must obey the order for a while." Liang En looked at the determined opponent and nodded helplessly. To be honest, the combat effectiveness of the Saudi Army was somewhat questionable, especially for such a noble officer.

Fortunately, their current position is on the second line, so if there is a problem later, I believe that the two bodyguards can at least take him to a safe place as soon as possible.

Because they were an official archaeological team, Liang En and the others immediately raised the flags of Iraq, Ireland and Saudi Arabia.

After seeing these flags, the other party's car slowed down significantly and stopped about two kilometers away. Then a call mixed in English and Arabic sounded on the radio.

"It turns out that the Iraqi archaeological department came to join us, and this group of people didn't notify them in advance." After figuring out the origin of this group of people, Liang En said with some helplessness.

Because it was determined that only one jeep and three people came and identified themselves, except for the security personnel at a few sentry posts who were still on alert, everyone else in the camp was off combat readiness.

On the way back to the camp from the combat position, almost everyone expressed their dissatisfaction with the Iraqi approach, because this situation was too easy to cause accidental strikes.

For example, this time if the other party does not slow down or make any response, but directly enters the 1.5km range of the camp. Then the Barrett sniper team they deployed not far away would most likely shoot directly.

A few minutes later, the somewhat dilapidated Mitsubishi off-road vehicle parked outside the circular camp formed by cars, and then two young men, a man and a woman, got out of the car.

This young woman surprised Liang En and the others, because although this country is not as religiously extreme as some countries, it is also a bit shocking for a young woman to engage in field work in this area.

"Hello, I am Varda, the head of the local archeology department, and this is my wife." The young man stepped forward to shake hands with Liang En and then introduced him. "Next we will participate in excavations on behalf of Iraq."

"Nice to meet you." Liang En shook hands with him and pointed to the ruins a few hundred meters away. "We are going on a field trip soon, will you come over too?"

"Of course, we are here just for this matter." Varda nodded and said. "I'm ready to assign tasks to us, and I can't wait to complete them."

So ten minutes later, several people drove the all-terrain vehicle loaded with equipment and drove towards the target location. It was obvious that no one had been here for a long time, so the land was completely pristine.

After driving over the seemingly flat land, they could clearly see the wheels making two ruts in the hot dust and raising up earthy yellow dust.

However, this makes Liang En more confident, because this representative relic of the original ecology has not experienced too much external disturbance, and the possibility of important discoveries has obviously increased.

Judging from the photos taken by the raven and the drone, the ruins are roughly a circle with a diameter of 3km, and the central diameter of 1.5km belongs to the core area of ​​the ruins. It seems that the ruins left behind are relatively dense.

"Where do we start?" Because the core area is not small, Joan of Arc was obviously dizzy after arriving at the core area and looking at the piles of dirt.

"I think that place is more suitable." Liang En pointed to the largest and tallest mound in the center of the ruins. "If I guessed correctly, that should be the core of the entire ruins."

Under Liang En's command, everyone quickly drove to the bottom of the ruins. The ruins looked like a slope, but traces of manual tamping could still be seen in the few remaining vertical places.

And when they climbed up the steep slope formed by weathering and collapse, they unexpectedly discovered many finger-long things scattered on the ground, which were obviously artificial creations.

"What is this?" Jeanne frowned after bending down to pick up one. She found that this thing was made of clay, and the big end had traces of red pottery glaze.

"This thing should belong to the earliest architectural decoration of the Mesopotamia civilization - they were put together into various patterns on the wall, called cone mosaics." After looking at this ceramic nail-like thing, Liang En quickly identified it out what this is.

However, this discovery made him very puzzled, because it was a recognized fact that this kind of thing belonged to the decoration of high-level buildings in the early Mesopotamia civilization. He didn't know why the Iraqi side had not discovered this before.

"Because we only examined the east side of the entire ruins when we were conducting cultural relic statistics, and the east side is the palace ruins of the Seleucid and Parthian empires, so they made a mistake in dating the ruins at that time."

After listening to Liang En's question, Warda, the Iraqi representative assigned to this archaeological activity, shook his head helplessly and said.

"I guess those people back then just took a quick look and left without conducting serious investigation at all, which is why it ended up like this."

"But from another perspective, this is not a bad thing. You know that many tomb robbers here can get information from the officials, and this information that cannot be investigated also misleads those criminals, so this place is preserved as a whole It’s pretty good.”

The investigation here is obviously not as good as that of those big countries, because years of chaos and war have resulted in departments such as cultural relics and archaeology not receiving enough support, so that most of the ruins were discovered by tomb robbers.

This is the reason why the other party came up with this kind of joint archaeology. After all, this is the only way to carry out the work quickly in a short time and reduce the work cost to a minimum.