Treasure Hunt all over the World

Father Harris discussed with the vice-principal of St. Catherine's Monastery in a low voice, and then consulted with the vice-minister of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture before making a decision.

As expected by the tripartite joint exploration team, St. Catherine's Monastery agreed to excavate this ancient armory that was buried deep underground.

However, care must be taken during the excavation not to damage the nearby monastery walls, and representatives of the Egyptian government and St. Catherine's Monastery will be on site to supervise.

As for the excavated ancient weapons, or other antique cultural relics and gold and silver treasures, except for religious holy objects, the rest will be shared equally between the Egyptian government and the Bravery Exploration Company in accordance with the previous agreement.

A considerable part of the half allocated by the Egyptian government will remain in St. Catherine's Monastery, which has nothing to do with the tripartite joint exploration team.

Ye Tian was very satisfied with this result, it was exactly what he wanted.

According to the previously agreed division of labor, he asked the Vatican and Israel to form an excavation team to excavate this ancient armory buried deep underground!

The exploration team that discovered the ancient armory remained on site to oversee but did not participate in the excavation as representatives of the Intrepid Exploration Company.

After determining the action plan, Joshua and the bishop of Kent immediately called their respective people, and soon transferred several exploration team members into the monastery to form an excavation team.

Next, Ye Tian told these guys a few more words, and then let them start digging.

When the excavation operation officially started, Ye Tian and his party left here, walked to the monastery library, and continued to explore.

Just like when he explored St. Helena's Church before, Ye Tian also found something in this ancient library, but he didn't tell the discovery, but hid the secret in his heart.

The books collected in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery are basically religious classics, and many of them are extremely precious and even priceless manuscripts, such as the oldest surviving "Bible" "Sinai Codex".

The secrets hidden in these hand-copied rare books, such as the secret letter in the interlayer of the cover, etc., even if Ye Tian tells these secrets, it is impossible to open the covers of those rare ancient books on the spot to reveal the answer!

More importantly, those secrets are closely related to religion, and are of great historical and cultural research value, and even record some major secrets in the history of Christianity, which are almost the same as religious holy objects!

Once such a thing is discovered, it will definitely be acquired by St. Catherine's Monastery or the Vatican, and it will never fall into Ye Tian's hands.

And these things are extremely sensitive, it can be said that they are hot yams, even if they were given to Ye Tian for free, he would not take them, he doesn't want to ask for trouble!

Because of this, he didn't tell the secrets hidden in the library. He just pretended to explore it seriously, and then left the library and walked into the adjacent museum!

Like the rare ancient books in the library, each of the ancient paintings, painted paintings, and other antique relics and artworks collected in this museum is closely related to religion.

At the same time, these antique relics and works of art collected in the museum also reflect the history and life of European dynasties, and almost every piece is a treasure.

The reason why Ye Tian entered this museum again was more because he wanted to carefully appreciate the top-level antique artworks collected here than to discover the secrets hidden here.

In fact, when he visited this museum for the first time, he discovered something and discovered some secrets hidden in this museum.

Those secrets are also closely related to religion, but they are not Solomon's treasure and the ark of the covenant. Since he can't get it himself, he loses the interest in making it public.

While he was admiring the top antique artworks, Derek and the others took a pulse metal detector and scanned the walls and ground of the museum thoroughly, but found nothing, and there were no hidden metal objects here.

It didn't take long for them to finish exploring the museum, and then they came out of the museum, ready to explore the next place.

At this moment, an excited voice suddenly came from the intercom.

"Steven, you'd better come and have a look. We dug up the ancient armory you mentioned. There are indeed many ancient weapons buried in it, and they are in good condition!"

Hearing the notification, Ye Tian immediately stopped in his tracks, and turned to look at the other people present.

The rest of the people also heard the announcement, and everyone's face showed excitement, and there was a bit of admiration in their eyes.

Although it was not Solomon's treasure and the Ark of the Covenant, it was a small surprise and worth celebrating!

What everyone admired was Ye Tian's incomparably sharp eyesight and judgment, and each of them secretly admired it!

Next, Ye Tian led everyone over to the city wall, and everyone's footsteps were extremely brisk.

When they walked to the base of the city wall, seven or eight meters away, everyone saw a few Roman daggers that had just been cleared.

Several archaeologists and historians from Israel, the Vatican, and Egypt are studying carefully with a few Roman daggers, and everyone's eyes are shining brightly with excitement.

Because the area where St. Catherine's Monastery is located is extremely arid, and the altitude is relatively high, and there are few people, these Roman daggers are in very good condition!

Although buried in the ground for more than a thousand years, these Roman short swords did not show many traces of rust on their bodies, and even the handguards on the hilts looked intact!

The gentle slope at the root of the city wall has been excavated at this time, and a large pit about two meters deep has been dug out.

The bricks and stone slabs that were originally paved on this barren slope were pried away and moved aside, and the sand dug out from the ground, as well as the wood that was about to be carbonized, were piled up around the big pit, forming hills. .

While talking, Ye Tian and his group had come to the edge of the big pit, and they all looked towards the bottom of the pit.

At the bottom of this big pit, several exploration team members from Israel and the Vatican are carefully cleaning up the ancient weapons buried in the sand and ruins.

Looking down from the mouth of the pit, Ye Tian and the others saw some Roman daggers, shields, spears, and many broken arrows, all of which were buried by sand and ruins, with only a small part exposed.

Like the few Roman daggers that have been unearthed, these ancient weapons buried at the bottom of the pit are also in a very good state of preservation. Except for some carbonization of the wooden part, the metal part is almost intact!

Seeing this scene, everyone was so excited that they almost cheered.

At this moment, an archaeologist from the Vatican suddenly interjected:

"Steven, your previous deduction is very correct. This is indeed an armory. At some point in ancient times, it collapsed for unknown reasons, and all the ancient weapons placed inside were buried.

In this ancient armory, we found the standard short sword used by the Egyptian provincial army of the Roman Empire, as well as several spears from the early Arab Empire, and other ancient weapons!

This is enough to show that the ancient armory of St. Catherine's Monastery did collapse shortly after the Arabs conquered Egypt, so there are weapons from the Roman Empire and the Arab Empire here.

More importantly, these ancient weapons are well preserved and have certain research value. They can be regarded as a batch of very good quality antique weapons, which are worth collecting. This is also a surprising discovery! "

With that said, the archaeologist from the Vatican handed the Roman dagger in his hand to Ye Tian.

Ye Tian took the ancient Roman dagger casually, and admired it with great interest.

The same goes for Joshua and the Bishop of Kent. They each picked up an ancient weapon that had just been cleared from the bottom of the pit, and admired it with great interest!