Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

It may sound ridiculous to find a magnificent temple without knowing the object of sacrifice, but this is a fact, because there is really nothing inside this magnificent temple of Kazni.

Some people think that this should be a temple dedicated to gods, but the layout does not match the formal layout of the temple at all. Some people also believe that this is a tomb, but there are no tomb-related remains inside.

"So what do you think this is?" After listening to everyone's thoughts, Joan asked with interest, "I believe you must know something when you come here this time."

"You're right, I do know something besides coming here for vacation." Liang En said, pointing to the entrance of the snake passage facing the temple. "However, whether these memories are really consistent with the scene will require some small-scale investigation."

So in the next two hours, they carefully inspected the Kazni Temple, especially the square in front of the door and the canyon called the Snake Passage at the entrance, and obtained a lot of information from it.

"Okay, we think we can go meet Ali." As he walked through the snake path for the last time, Liang En grabbed his straw hat from the top of his head and fanned his chest, and then said to Joan of Arc, "Next We need his help."

"You mean you want to conduct a small-scale excavation?" Looking at Liang En and Joan of Arc who looked tired in his office, Suleiman Ali, the director of the Petra Archaeological Park, looked at them in surprise. "Tell me why you did this?"

"Mainly because of our exploration just now." Liang En recalled what he and Joan did in the previous few hours, and then told what he had discovered.

"According to the results of our observations just now, the path called the Snake Path facing the Kazni Temple is paved with a layer of stones. This should be an ancient path."

"Yes, that's right." Ali nodded, "You know this used to be part of the Roman Avenue, and it was also a prosperous trading city, so it's not surprising that there are stone paved roads."

"But at the end of this snake path, that is, the end near the Kazni Temple, there is a distance of nearly 300 feet covered with sand." Liang En said, showing the picture on his phone.

"This is not surprising. You must know that this city has been abandoned for more than a thousand years, and the ancient water conservancy system has also been damaged. Therefore, floods often carry sediment through the canyon and finally accumulate in front of the temple." Ali explained arrive.

"You know. The biggest feature of rain in the desert is that it is very variable. Sometimes it will form huge floods and take away massive amounts of sand and gravel from the surface that lacks vegetation."

"In this case, the sand and gravel will follow the canyon over the water conservancy facilities that were damaged due to no maintenance, and then wash directly along the snake road to the flat place and accumulate, and then you will see the things you see. ”

"Yes, I know, but if you follow the original slope of the snake path all the way down to the Kazini Temple, you will find that the ground level at that time should be much lower than the current ground level." Liang En's mouth Slightly raised.

"That is to say, our Kazni Temple is most likely the second floor of the temple in the past, and an entire floor is likely to be hidden under thousands of years of sand and gravel."

He initially chose to come to Petra, Jordan, because he really wanted to have a good vacation, but when he saw the Al-Kazni Temple, he suddenly thought of a certain episode of a National Geographic documentary in his previous life.

After on-site investigation, he discovered that the secrets recorded in the documentary most likely existed in this world, so he came to look for Ali at this time.

"If we only excavate in that square, I think it's okay." After thinking for a few seconds, Ali nodded to Liang En and the others.

To be honest, the main purpose of inviting Liang En and the others this time was for publicity. After all, this was a ruin that had been discovered for more than a hundred years, so he didn't think others would be able to find anything from it.

However, for this reason, Ali felt that the monument itself could no longer bring any benefits to the scenic spot, so he could only solve this problem from other aspects, such as asking celebrities to help with advertising.

But he really didn't expect that Liang En, whom he had only hired for publicity, could be so powerful and actually be able to find something that had never been found before by archaeologists in a place that was recognized by archaeologists as having few secrets.

For Ali, the person in charge of the ruins, Liang En's discovery is naturally good news for him. That's why he made this decision after briefly weighing the pros and cons.

Of course, there is another important reason for making this decision, that is, his power is much higher than that of the person in charge of the ordinary archaeological park, so he can have enough manpower and material resources to cooperate with Liang En's actions.

Because of his own advantage, when the sun rose the next day, Ali found more than twenty workers and came to the square in front of the temple, and then started excavation work according to Liang En's instructions.

The place they chose was under the current stone steps of the Kazni Temple, so that they could easily locate it by relying on the temple itself and would not deviate from the target during the excavation process.

The subsequent excavation work can only be carried out purely by manual methods, because this place is located near a famous ruins, and any machinery may cause serious losses.

"Start digging from here." Liang En pointed to a piece of land on the side of the temple and said, "After all, if this place really has a drop of two to three meters as I judged before, then there must be a step below the main entrance. .”

Under Liang En's command, the staff quickly surrounded a large area with steel plates on the side of the temple, and then started excavation work with the tools in their hands.

When the excavation started, everything looked normal. What was excavated was some gravel and soil, which was exactly what the ground sediments looked like after the flood.

Judging from the soil cross section, this place must have experienced more than one flood, and it was this flood that caused earth and rocks to accumulate layer by layer on the ground, so that the entire square was raised by several meters.

However, as they continued to dig deeper, especially when they were digging carefully towards the temple, they found a stone wall that went vertically downward.

"It seems that our guess is correct." After cleaning the soil on the surface of the stone with the tool in his hand, Liang En nodded gently after seeing clearly what was under the soil.

Because a smooth stone wall appeared in front of him, and there were some marks left by ancient people with hammers and chisels on it. It was obviously smoothed with special tools.

"Yes, there is indeed something underneath." Ali, who came to inspect the construction site, came over at this time and said looking at the flattened surface.

"Your guess seems to be right. After the city was destroyed, the sediment carried by the flood should have accumulated in this small square. It's just that because of the drought here, no one realized this solid square before. There is probably something hidden under the ground.”