mchenry-crisis.org Chapter 389 Clues and Discoveries
Chapter 389 Clues and Discoveries
Chapter 389 Clues and Discoveries
Crete has been an important olive producing area since ancient Greece, let alone modern times.The Greek government has always regarded the olive oil industry as a fist industry.
So if you run an olive plantation here, there will naturally be a lot of good news. For example, the olives planted will be directly sold to the state-owned agricultural association after primary processing in the plantation, so you don't have to worry about sales.
Another example is that the planting industry government will provide a large amount of subsidies, which can guarantee the income of plantation investors to the greatest extent possible and reduce the risk of operation.
Therefore, Liang En felt that he could still take a gamble on this plantation, especially since he had a corresponding card in his hand that could solve the current problem with a high probability.
But this also means that Liang En's bonus this time will basically be used up here, because in addition to the money for buying the land, he still needs to leave 40 million euros as operating funds.
This is mainly because the seller of the land has restrictions on the use of the land, for example, at least 60 hectares of the 40 hectares of land must be guaranteed as agricultural land.
This also resulted in workers having to be hired all the time, and various equipment also needed to be paid for maintenance, which was quite a burden on the whole.
So it took a week to go through all the procedures and pay the money to complete the transfer of the property. Liang En, Joan of Arc, Fan Meng, and a farm worker discussed the situation about the hill in the farm conference room. .
Because of the reason for obtaining the excavation permit, the farm worker naturally knew everything about Liang En's inquiry, and he could talk endlessly.And this also allowed Liang En to get a lot of valuable information.
"You mean, you once picked up ancient-looking pottery around here." Liang En asked curiously after hearing what the worker named Angelos said.
"To be precise, it is a fragment of pottery." The worker said with a sigh. "The biggest ones are no bigger than my palm, and there's absolutely no telling what they're supposed to be for."
"We reported our findings to the archaeological department as soon as possible. Unfortunately, these things were so badly damaged that the archaeological department allowed us to keep the things we found."
With that said, Angelos opened the drawer in the room, and took out the things they found and gathered here one by one, and put them on the table.
These things were all broken parts, and Liang En could only judge that some of them should have been a whole jar or cup, but it was broken due to various reasons later.
"The archaeological department told us that this may be the ruins of some wealthy people's villas in ancient Rome." Just as Liang En was inspecting the pile of things, Angelos explained to Liang En everything they knew about the pile of things. .
"You should know that this place is very close to the port of Heraklion, and there is also a source of water available. So in ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, there were indeed rich people who chose to build summer houses in the mountains."
Although the current Heraklion was founded by the Saracens in 824, the Greek historian Herodotus once praised Heraklion as a magnificent city in the 5th century BC, and many ancient Roman documents also marked this city.
Therefore, historians searching around this port turned their attention to the sea and coastline, trying to find the port city of ancient Greece and Rome.
Just over ten years ago, a French archaeologist discovered the old city of Heraklion, which was completely submerged underwater due to an earthquake around 500 AD, under the water near the port.
They found several huge statues one after another, including: the Egyptian goddess Isis, the god Hapi, and an unidentified statue of an Egyptian pharaoh, which was in very good condition and completely encased in mud.
In further excavations, the importance of the ancient city of Heraklion was further confirmed - 64 ships were found, which is the largest number of ancient ships found in one site, and more than 700 anchors were also found.
Other discoveries have shown the importance of the ancient city of Heraklion to the ancient economy, with the discovery of a large number of gold coins, lead, copper and stone weights from Athens, confirming that Heraklion was once the most important trading port in the Mediterranean.
Therefore, the archaeological department on the island put almost all their energy on the underwater city, so they naturally subconsciously took the thing found on the hill called Mount Kefla in the suburbs as the underwater city. Subsidiary of the ancient city.
"I don't think this place will be that simple." Liang En said through the window, looking at the hills covered with shrubs and trees, "The terrain and geographical location of this mountain are so good, it's hard to believe that it's just a summer resort." villa."
"Actually, we think so too." Angelos agreed with Liang En's words, "I heard that someone dug some semi-precious stones from this mountain before, with strange portraits and patterns carved on them, a villa would not There are so many beautifully carved semi-precious stones."
"Do you have a sample of that thing?" After hearing what the other party said, Liang En immediately cheered up.Compared with these clay parts that only retain monotonous colors, those semi-precious stones carved with figures and patterns are obviously of higher historical value.
"No, after all, we didn't take the initiative to dig that thing, so the amount dug out is not much, at least in our grandfather's generation." Angelos shook his head.
"In our legend, this kind of thing is called prolactin, and it is said that it is good for pregnant women. It's just that some of these things were sold later, and some were handed over to the archaeological department of our country. Basically, no one owns this kind of thing."
"That's okay." Hearing what he said, Liang En quickly changed his plan. "Even if we can't be sure, we can do exploration first and then dig."
In another world, the Englishman Evans directly hired a group of workers to level the plants on the mountain, and then started digging down from the top of the mountain, but there is obviously no need to do this now.
Compared with the technological level at the end of the 19th century, today's technology brings them more choices.For example, with the help of ground-penetrating radar, it is possible to grasp the situation underground without large-scale excavation.
This is the case with the 18000-pound ground-penetrating radar they brought this time, which can detect the situation up to 8m below the ground and produce a 3D visualization map.
So for the next three days, the three of Liang En and the ten workers who stayed behind took turns scanning the ground penetrating radar back and forth on the hill called Kevlar during the day, while Liang En Analyze the collected data.
For these workers, it is very easy to work now because the trees have not yet bear fruit, but the wages can only be paid a small amount, or even the basic wages that cannot support their families.
Therefore, when Liang En recruited staff among them, except for two people who found jobs in the urban area and could not return for a short time, the others all joined in the search for the hill.
When there are enough people, the efficiency of the search will naturally be greatly improved, and it can even search for [-] hours a day without stopping the machine.
It was during this kind of work that Liang En gradually figured out the current situation of the entire ruins.Obviously, what is discovered now should be the legendary Minoan palace.
(End of this chapter)