Holding a small flashlight to light it carefully, Lucas squinted his eyes and muttered to himself: "Looking at the transparency, it is similar to jadeite, which is jade, but with a vitreous luster."
He moved the flashlight to the side, and when he brought his eyes closer, he could see the crystal particles of the same size inside, and there were also some dark spots.
Seeing this, Lucas' pupils shrank suddenly, and he quickly shouted, "Give me the Charles filter in the bag!"
His student was stunned for a moment, then reacted, quickly put down the big bag he was carrying, opened the zipper, and rummaged through the piles of scattered gadgets inside.
"faster!"
Lucas shouted anxiously.
The students finally found the items they were looking for and handed them to the instructor.
It was a finger-length black plastic with a small circular lens embedded in one end.
And Chen Shuo also realized something from the keyword "Charles filter", stood up and watched all this closely.
Lucas lit the light, then moved the Charles filter to his eyes, and the faint green jade appeared red in the filter.
When this scene appeared in front of him, his mouth opened little by little, and then he turned his head a little stiffly, with a look that seemed surprised and incredible.
"This jade turns red under the filter, indicating that it is not jade, but Dushan jade that is very similar to jade!"
This sentence detonated like a bomb in everyone's mind.
Dushan jade, produced in Dushan, 8 kilometers north of Nanyang City, Yuzhou, Yan Kingdom, is also known as "Nanyang Jade".
Although it is not as famous as Hetian jade now, in fact, it has a very long history of application in the Yan Kingdom. Seven pieces of Dushan jade have been unearthed in the Yin Ruins.
However, this kind of jade material unique to Yuzhou of the Yan Kingdom actually appeared in the newly discovered ruins of the old capital of the Olmec civilization more than [-] kilometers away.
what does this mean?
The Indian Professor Lucas's hands were shaking, with an unspeakably bitter smile: "Twenty years! Twenty years! I have never felt that the truth of history is so close to me at that moment."
"The Olmec civilization, which started in the tropical jungle of the San Lorenzo highlands in 1200 BC, was destroyed by violence in 900 BC, and then the center moved here, a place called La Venta."
"At present, the discovery of Dushan Jade does not mean that the Yin people crossed eastward and established the Olmec."
"However, it is a very strong proof that during the period when the Olmec civilization was still alive, there might have been exchanges between two civilizations separated by an ocean and a distance of more than [-] kilometers."
Lucas looked at Chen Shuo, raised his head excitedly, and looked around again: "To be honest, I can't wait to see the depths of this site, what more amazing discoveries are there!"
After this reminder, everyone else's eyes couldn't help but look at the dark corridor guarded by the two stone statues.
"Be careful, let's keep going inside." Although there are few traps in the ruins here, Chen Shuo still instructed.
The crowd nodded in response.
The group crossed the guard stone statue and groped to the depths of the corridor.
Parts of the ground were broken and gaping, tripping over someone, and overhead were the withered roots of many plants hanging like a curtain.
Their arrival alarmed the hiyin bugs living in the ruins, they all fled, and made a creepy rustling sound in the darkness left by the interlaced flashlight.
In such an environment, with the sound of his footsteps and exhalation, it is even more deadly.
Finally, the echo became obviously empty, and the corridor was over!
The flashlight beams shine in different directions, reflecting the odd-shaped space made of mottled stones.
"From the inside, it looks like a typical Olmec pyramid." Lucas looked at it for a moment and affirmed.
"Two teachers, look next to you, there are murals on the surrounding walls." Suddenly a student exclaimed in surprise.
Tang You, who has been observing, smiled faintly, the real focus of the layout here is coming!
Hearing the students' words, Chen Shuo and Lucas hurriedly looked.
Compared with words whose shape will gradually evolve, paintings are undoubtedly more able to convey information across a long time, and can be read directly without difficult deciphering.
Under the white light of the flashlight, the first thing that catches the eye is a pair of phoenix totems painted with some kind of red paint.
Seeing this painting, the hair on Chen Shuo's back stood up instantly, his eyes widened, and he almost blurted out: "Fu Hao Yufeng!"
He completely ignored the curious glances of the others, and rushed to the mural with a stunned look, for fear of missing the slightest incomparably careful study.
After a long while, Chen Shuocai nodded excitedly, looked at the others and explained excitedly: "In Yan Guo's Book of Songs, Shang Song, Xuan Niao, there is such a sentence 'Destiny Xuan Niao, born into Shang. '"
"The "Historical Records", "Chu Ci", "Lu Shi Chunqiu" and "Huainanzi" all recorded that Jian Di gave birth to the first ancestor of Yin and Shang after eating the egg of the mysterious bird."
"This is the legend of 'The Mysterious Bird of Destiny descended to Shang'. The Yin people also claimed to be descendants of the Mysterious Bird."
"The so-called mysterious bird, according to research, should initially refer to the swallow, but with the later evolution, adding other characteristics, it gradually became a phoenix."
"In the Yin Ruins of Yecheng City in the Yan Kingdom, there is a tomb of Fu Hao, the owner of the tomb is the spouse of King Wu Ding of Shang, and in this tomb, jade and phoenix decorations have been unearthed."
"Although the phoenix pattern here is different from that of the jade phoenix in terms of artistic style and body shape, the overall image is exactly the same."
In the past, although archaeologists have always known that the Yin merchants and the Olmec people both worshiped phoenix birds, the two phoenix birds are actually different in image.
And now, the pure phoenix bird worshipped by Yin merchants actually appeared here!
At present, there is Dushan Jade in the front and a phoenix pattern in the back. More and more evidences in this site point to an amazing historical truth!
Both groups of students were so excited that they couldn't help themselves, and being able to participate in such a major archaeological discovery would undoubtedly add a splendid touch to their academic careers.
Lucas came over and patted Chen Shuo's arm, trying hard to suppress the surging in his heart: "Old friend, calm down, there are still many murals, we haven't finished reading this enough to shake the discovery of Blue Star's historical circle."
Taking a few deep breaths in the gas mask, Professor Chen Shuo said loudly, "Let's go, let's continue to look at the past."
The second mural depicts a large cauldron split in two. On the map, a group of sergeants are walking eastward, weeping near the coast.
The outline of the map was obviously similar to some of the coastal areas of the Yan Kingdom.
Lucas and Chen Shuo looked at each other. The content depicted in this picture was extremely familiar to both of them.
Before the decisive battle between King Wu of Zhou and King Zhou of Shang, King Zhou once sent a general named Hou Xi to bring a regular army to pacify Dongyi, but after the collapse of the Shang Dynasty, this army disappeared mysteriously.
The main protagonist of the Yin people's eastward crossing is this army, but there has been a lack of key evidence in the past.
Everyone's eyes are extremely hot, and the truth of history is ready to come out.
"continue!"
Everyone present thought that the next picture must be a group of people crossing the sea in a boat, but the reality completely exceeded their expectations.
In the fresco, a person flying down from the air appears in front of the crying sergeants, giving a piece of vellum with one hand and pointing in the direction of the sea with the other.
And in the palm of his hand, there is a scarlet logo with a long and narrow eight-sided shield and a ring inside! .
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The mythological color that suddenly appeared in the documentary mural made Chen Shuo, Lucas and others a little confused.
But the meaning is clear:
The wailing attracted a "person" who fell from the sky. He told the desperate sergeants that they could go overseas, and gave them a scroll of animal skins for writing or drawing maps.
"I think this may be the same as the shattering of the cauldron to represent the collapse of the Shang Dynasty. It is some kind of symbolism." Some students tried to say.
Chen Shuo, who studied the history of archaeology, was too aware of the habits of the ancients, shook his head and said, "At present, we can't make a conclusion easily."
"The ancients always liked to associate world affairs with deities in their imaginations, or to cover up many things in the name of deities."
"So, it may also be the leader at that time, under the guise of the guidance of the gods, persuaded others to follow him and flee overseas."
Lucas observed the sign with a magnifying glass for a long time, then turned around and said suspiciously: "I have studied the ancient civilization of Meizhou for so many years, and I have never seen the sign in the palm of this 'man'."
"The oracle bone inscriptions that have been unearthed in the Shang Dynasty, as well as other cultural relics, have never appeared in this symbol." Chen Shuo added thoughtfully.
The students quickly took pictures.
The two professors continued to go deeper. Under the white light, a new mural appeared in their eyes. It was a number of sergeants and military civilians crossing the ocean in bamboo boats.
Some details are clearly shown in the frescoes.
For example, the bamboos used to make the boats are very thick. They always follow the direction of the flow of the sea water. There are small islands in front of them, and on a larger island, there are many erupting volcanoes.
Later, some people chose to stay on the island, while some people drowned because their boats were overturned by the wind and waves.
There are also people lying on the bamboo raft with their legs outstretched and their calves bent inward like a frog, apparently suffering from scurvy due to a long-term lack of vitamin C.
In short, the people on the murals are becoming rarer.
In the end, after countless trials and tribulations, this group of people who were unwilling to submit to the Zhou Dynasty's rule landed on a vast land that was sunny but full of snow and ice.
"That's right! It's all right!"
Lucas suddenly shouted furiously, startling the students who were taking pictures behind him.
"In 1863, a scholar named Bo de Boer found an ancient document in the archives of the Royal Academy of History in Madrid, Spain."
"There are many legends of the Maya recorded by Bishop Randa 300 years ago, saying that 12 peoples with high culture came from the 'God of the Sea' and they brought advanced civilization."
"And the Mayans who lived on the Yucatan Peninsula in Central Magnesia claimed to be peasants who traveled from Heaven to the Pontoon Islands in a bamboo boat three thousand years ago to plant beans, wheat and millet on the banks of the Copan River."
"Look! The broad bamboo that makes the boat is clearly the snot bamboo that originated in the Yan Kingdom and Fujian, but for some reason it disappeared in the original place, but appeared in the Meizhou."
"In the early years, some people speculated that the route of the Yin people's eastward crossing was probably from the East China Sea, through the Goryeo Strait, to the Neon Islands, to the Kuril Islands, through the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula, to the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific, and finally to Alaska. ."
"As long as you open the world map and take a look, you will find that this is a complete island chain, and the distance between the islands is mostly only ten or twenty nautical miles. "
"And if you look at the details on the murals, the island with many volcanoes is clearly Neon Island."
"The active volcanoes on one of his islands accounted for one-tenth of the total active volcanoes in the world. For the Yin people at that time, it was indeed everywhere. It is no wonder that they used the expression form of painting full of volcanoes."
"Furthermore, in the picture, the boats of the Yin people are clearly following the direction of the flow of the sea water, but they can see the island all the way, which once again proves that they are the above-mentioned island chain."
"Because not far to the south of this island chain, are the famous Kuroshio and Pacific warm currents that flow eastward for many years."
Lucas's long-term wish was almost over, and his mood was so excited that he kept talking and pacing back and forth with his head down.
"Did you know that more than [-] years ago, Xu Hui, a professor at Central State University in Oklahoma, USA, discovered that many of our Indian tribes have the legend of 'the ancestors crossed the ocean' 〃々."
"According to legend, the founder of the Sunrise Kingdom, King Hosi, brought acupuncture and moxibustion from the Kingdom of Heaven and used snot and bamboo shoots to treat traumatic scrofula."
"And the "Hosi King Song" that sang his praises is like this: The twenty-five tribes are brothers, follow the hosi to cross the pontoon bridge in the sky, the journey is difficult and unforgettable, distribute the wheat and millet on a blind date, brothers don't humiliate brothers, the kingdom of heaven will meet again Winter returns to spring."
"It is these inseparable evidences that prompted me to embark on the difficult road of exploring the relationship between the Olmec civilization and Yinshang. And today, there may finally be a result."
Having said this, he paused for a while, smiled at the others, and then resolutely walked towards the mural in the dark.
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