Treasure Hunt all over the World

The Acropolis Museum is divided into bottom, middle and upper floors, and the display content of each floor is different.

After entering the museum, Ye Tian and the others visited the ground floor first.

The ground floor of the museum is suspended above a huge archaeological site, using a network of reinforced concrete columns to support the museum above.

Here, Ye Tian looked down and saw a huge archaeological excavation site from a bird's-eye view.

Through this archaeological excavation site, he saw the economy, culture, art, and social life of ancient Greece two or three thousand years ago, and went on a trip to ancient Greece!

Of course, in the process, he did not forget to secretly open the perspective to explore the secrets hidden deeper underground.

As in the past, his eyes easily penetrated the archaeological site, saw many unknown secrets deep underground, and also saw many valuable antique works of art buried deeper underground.

It's a pity that he can't make these secrets public, and those valuable antique works of art are also out of his reach, and it's impossible for him to get them.

Unless one day the Greeks are poor and crazy, the Greek government is completely bankrupt, and they plan to sell the Acropolis Museum, then it is possible for him to get those treasures hidden deeper underground.

Obviously, this possibility basically does not exist.

While visiting the Acropolis Museum, Ye Tian was also joking and chatting with Pandemaris, who accompanied him on the tour, and several other Greek antique art appraisal experts.

"Mr. Curator, after checking into the hotel, I thought about it carefully. You, the Acropolis Museum, the Greek Ministry of Culture, and the Greek National Archaeological Museum, can send people to participate in this exploration operation."

Hearing this, the faces of several Greeks at the scene showed ecstasy, and they almost raised their arms and cheered.

"That's great, Steven, you guys are so generous once in a while, thank you very much! No need to ask, let us send people to participate in this operation to explore the treasure of the sunken ship, there must be conditions, let's hear it!"

Pandemaris said excitedly, his eyes were full of anticipation, and so were the other Greeks.

Ye Tian looked at this old friend, then nodded with a smile and said:

"You guessed it right,

Pandemaris, each of your two museums and the Ministry of Culture can only send two people to participate in the exploration operation, preferably experts and scholars who study ancient Roman and Hellenistic sculpture art.

And your people must obey the command, you can't act without authorization, and you can't interfere with our exploration of the treasure of this ancient Roman shipwreck. In this regard, they are not professional, and participating in it will only cause bad things.

Not only you, but several famous museums have also sent representatives to participate in this exploration operation, including representatives from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the U.S. Department of Culture.”

Unsurprisingly, the complexions of all the Greeks at the scene changed and became very ugly.

Each of them knew very well that the guys at the Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery of Art were definitely after the possible Roman or Hellenistic sculptures!

The representatives sent by the US Department of Culture are a threat that cannot be ignored to everyone except Steven and his company.

Because of the existence of those guys, anyone who wants to play tricks on this shipwreck treasure will be a little more concerned, including the Greek government authorities.

The reactions of these Greeks were all seen by Ye Tian, ​​and he had a clear view.

As if he hadn't seen it, he continued to smile and said:

"In addition, those guys from the Louvre in France and the British Museum in England also called me, hoping to participate in this exploration operation, and have already sent representatives to Athens"

"Ah! Those British robbers actually sent people here, how dare they? When I see those British robbers, I really want to ask in person, when will they return the Elgin marble statue that they took from the Parthenon? "

Pendermalis gritted his teeth and said, with an extremely angry expression.

The same is true for the other Greeks. When they heard about the British Museum, they all became furious and clenched their fists tightly.

Their behavior was completely within Ye Tian's expectations, and they were not surprised at all.

There is no other reason, because the "Elgin Marble Statue" that Pandemalis said is one of the best, most complete and most outstanding statues in existence in the Parthenon, but it was replaced by the British in the nineteenth century. First snatched away.

The Parthenon is the eternal symbol of Greece, which shows how important the Elgin Marble Statue is to the Greeks.

When the British snatched the Elgin Marble Statue, Greece was still under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The then British ambassador, Lord Elgin, half-bought and half-robbed this exquisite ancient Greek sculpture.

In the process, Lord Elgin not only ordered people to dismember the marble statue, cut it into pieces and shipped it back to England, but also caused huge damage to the Parthenon Temple, which made every Greek hate it to the bone!

Not long after this marble statue was shipped to the UK, in 1816, the British royal family acquired this extremely precious marble statue from Lord Elgin and displayed it in the British Museum.

For more than two hundred years since then, the Elgin Marbles, or should be called the Parthenon Marbles, have been on display in the British Museum and have become one of the famous treasures of the British Museum.

In the 1980s, the Greek Minister of Culture at the time proposed a motion in the United Nations General Assembly, asking the British to return the Elgin Marbles, a request that was supported by most countries.

However, the vote on this motion has no binding effect on the United Kingdom, and the British and the British Museum have refused to return the Elgin Marbles.

In the next few decades, Britain and Greece quarreled countless times over the ownership of the Elgin Marble, but nothing changed. The marble statue is still displayed in the British Museum.

One of the reasons why the British Museum refuses to return the Elgin Marbles is that the protection conditions in Athens, Greece are too poor, and the old Acropolis Museum is too dilapidated to collect this priceless treasure.

However, after the completion of the new Acropolis Museum in 2009, the exhibition and collection conditions have reached the world's top level, and the British Museum still has no plans to return the Elgin Marbles.

This made the Greeks furious, and people hated the British Museum even more, and everyone gritted their teeth with hatred.

As the curator of the Acropolis Museum, as well as experts and scholars of this top museum, Pandemales and the others could imagine how they felt when they heard that the British Museum was sending someone to Athens.

Ye Tian is very clear about these disputes between the British and the Greeks, as well as the grievances between the British Museum and the Acropolis Museum.

However, he didn't have the slightest intention of mediating, and even gloated a little. When the British and the Greeks meet, it would be better if people's brains are like dogs.

After a short pause, Ye Tian continued to say:

"Pandermaris, let's put aside the grievances between you and the British Museum, I believe you will find a solution to the conflict, let's continue to talk about this exploration operation.

When the exploration operation begins, I will provide you observers with a yacht to set off with us to the Mediterranean Sea. In the following exploration operations, you must not interfere with us.

It would be great if we were lucky enough to find this ancient Roman shipwreck treasure during this sea trip, and there are indeed a large number of ancient Roman or Hellenistic sculptures in this shipwreck treasure.

Next, we will start deep-sea salvage work, and after we salvage those ancient sculptures out of the water, you can come up to appreciate and identify those ancient sculptures.”

Hearing this, Pandemaris couldn't help but fell silent, and so did the other Greeks.

After a while, Pandemalis nodded and said:

"Okay, Steven, we accept your conditions, and hope that your expedition will go well and find those ancient Roman shipwrecks as soon as possible!"