Treasure Hunt all over the World

Chapter 2447 Entering the Mayan Civilization

In view of the fact that this Mayan temple is crumbling, although it has been reinforced, it still has certain risks, so everyone did not enter it to visit, but just looked outside and around.

Under such circumstances, everyone can't see it very clearly.

But in Ye Tian's eyes, he knew everything inside and outside the Mayan temple, every corner, and even the situation deep underground in the temple, without missing anything.

In this long-abandoned temple, he saw many Mayan hieroglyphs and various exquisite patterns and decorations, which were the relics left by the splendid Mayan civilization, and also saw the traces left by time and time.

Apart from these, he didn't find anything else, such as hidden secret compartments, or treasures buried deep underground.

This place has been explored countless times by archaeologists and explorers. If there are hidden secret compartments or other treasures in the temple, they have been discovered long ago, and it is absolutely impossible to keep them until now.

The same is true for the head of the sun god placed on the steps in front of the temple. Apart from looking a little imposing and of great value, there is no hidden secret.

There may have been some important secrets hidden on the head of this Mayan sun god.

However, with the weathering and even obliteration of the Mayan hieroglyphs and patterns on the head portraits, the secrets hidden on them can no longer be explored, completely lost in the long river of time, and become eternal secrets.

After visiting this Mayan temple, Ye Tian and the others walked to another temple not far away.

Compared with the first Mayan temple, the temple I visited next was a little smaller, but it was also dilapidated. The second half of the temple had collapsed, and the stones that formed the temple were scattered all over the place.

On the outer wall of this Mayan temple, as well as on the granite strips scattered on the ground, there are also Mayan hieroglyphs, various patterns, and decorations, many of which are very blurred and unrecognizable!

On the steps in front of the temple, there are two lion-headed statues, one of which is holding a torch in its hand, and the other is holding a few snakes in its hand, with a scorpion in its mouth. a snake.

In addition to the rather peculiar shape, the two statues are also engraved with Mayan hieroglyphs and various patterns, and even the faces of the statues are full of engravings, giving people a strange feeling.

As before, it was still Professor Delgado who was in charge of explaining.

"Steven, David, the two statues you see now have different meanings. The torch in the statue's hand on the left symbolizes the god of rain revered by the Mayans.

The snake in the hands and mouth of the statue on the right symbolizes the snake god. In ancient and modern Mayan culture, there has always been a tradition of animal worship, such as the feathered snake god.

The age of creation of these two statues, as well as the special meanings they have, the Mayan hieroglyphs and patterns carved on the two statues are all described in detail,…”

While Professor Delgado was explaining, Ye Tian had secretly turned on the perspective, and began to explore the Mayan temple and the situation deep underground in the temple.

As before, he didn't find any surprises inside and outside the Mayan temple.

However, when his gaze was three meters or four meters deep underground, a bright golden light suddenly flashed in his eyes, making his eyes dizzy.

Ye Tian calmed down for a while before he saw clearly what those things buried deep underground were.

There were more than a dozen pieces of gold products of different shapes, and dozens of gold nuggets of irregular shapes, piled together randomly, and covered with a stone slab, which seemed to have been buried hastily.

On those gold products, there are more or less Mayan hieroglyphs engraved, as well as some decorative patterns and patterns, while the gold nuggets are bare.

The first time Ye Tian saw the gold artifacts deep underground, he could already see that this treasure had been buried here for a long time.

As early as around BC, these gold products and gold nuggets were buried deep underground. At that time, it was the era when the Mayan Empire used Copan as its capital, far earlier than the Copan Kingdom.

In addition to the inherent value of gold itself, those gold products also have a certain research value. Some of the Mayan hieroglyphs carved on them may not be known.

Once those Mayan hieroglyphs are discovered, it is likely to cause quite a stir and advance the research of Mayan civilization a big step forward.

Ye Tian secretly admired this treasure located deep underground, and then he retracted his gaze and ended the perspective.

Next, he turned into an ordinary tourist, admiring the ruins of this civilization while listening to Professor Delgado's professional explanation.

After visiting this Mayan temple, everyone continues to move forward, and then visit other ruins in the ancient city of Copan, and through these long-abandoned ruins, to spy on the Mayan civilization that has mysteriously disappeared.

After walking a few steps, on the gentle slope of a small hill and on the steps, everyone saw several huge stone statues with human heads with different expressions.

These human head stone statues are also engraved with Mayan hieroglyphs and patterns representing various meanings, which are worth studying.

After walking past these huge statues of human heads, Ye Tian and his group came to another altar and stopped to admire it.

This altar is not big, about 1.22 meters long and 70 centimeters high. There are four statues of priests sitting cross-legged on the altar.

Their bodies were engraved with Mayan hieroglyphs and various patterns. Each of them held a book in their hands, and seemed to be discussing something, with a focused expression.

Around this altar, there are also Mayan hieroglyphs and various patterns engraved, as well as some stone tigers and stone turtles inlaid with obsidian fragments, as well as other animals.

The stone tiger here is of course a jaguar unique to Central and South America, not a real tiger.

"According to legend, after the death of the first priest of the Mayans, Itsana, the inventor of Mayan hieroglyphs and calendars, he was engraved as the main god among the Mayan gods and enshrined in the ancient city of Copan by the Mayans.

It is a pity that we have never found the statue of Itsana. In the long history of two or three thousand years in the past, the statue of Itsana may have been smashed and disappeared completely.

Of course, there is also the possibility that the statue of Itsanna is not actually here, or it was hidden somewhere by the Mayans. It would be great, and I hope that someone can find this statue in the future.

The statues in front of us, the characters carved are the four priests of the Maya, and in the Mayan civilization, the priests are the most important cultural inheritors of the Mayan civilization..."

Professor Delgado introduced the sacrificial statues in front of him, with a bit of regret in his tone.

As for the others, they were admiring everything in front of them while listening to professional explanations. Everyone was very excited and enjoyed it.

Of course, Ye Tian would not let go of the opportunity to see through.

He thoroughly examined the altar in front of him and the hill built with earth and rocks under the altar.

Here, he also found something, but it was not a surprise.

After a while, the group of them came to the temple dedicated to the Moon God again, and began to visit and admire the ruins of the temple.

Where they entered the ancient city before, the first temple they visited was the Temple of the Sun, and there was a huge head of the Sun God on the steps in front of the door.

It can be deduced from this that there should have been a head of the Moon God in front of this Moon God Temple, but it is unknown where the head of the Moon God has gone, and the steps in front of the temple are empty.

The two temples are the same size, each 30 meters long and 10 meters wide, facing each other from a distance, just like the sun and the moon echoing each other.

In the open space between these two temples, there are 14 stone steles, which look like a forest of steles, quite magnificent.

At this point, Professor Delgado became even more excited, and the voice of the explanation was also raised a few degrees.

"The temple you see now is the temple of the Moon God. As the name suggests, the god it enshrines is the Mayan Moon God, corresponding to the Sun Temple we just visited.

Built between 613 and 783, these steles are all carved from a single block of marble, at different heights, and are filled with symbolic carvings and thousands of hieroglyphs.

Among the many figure statues on the stele, only one looks like a woman, indicating the low status of women at that time, and female images are very rare in Mayan carvings, and they are also very precious.

It is the patterns and hieroglyphs engraved on these steles that reveal to us how brilliant and brilliant the Mayan civilization that once existed in Central and South America was, how shocking it is..."

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