The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Lykergus, which represents a person's name, was a politician and legislator of Sparta in ancient Greece. His laws and regulations laid the foundation for Sparta to become a military-power state.

　　 Legend has it that he implemented the "good law" in 610 BC to militarize the Spartan country and determine the powers of the king, the inspector, the council of elders, and the citizens' assembly.

In Greek, the name Lykergus means very masculine and tough. Indeed, if nothing else, Western legends like the "Three Hundred Spartans" can explain everything, and the founder of all these traditions He is indeed a resolute and strong man.

　　 As for the "Lakegos Cup" that Jerry Gooden Cowan exclaimed at this time, it was not a product of ancient Greece, but ancient Rome, because as far as he knew, ancient records called it that way.

　　 As for the reason, maybe the prototype of the character on the cup is Lykergus.

　　 However, its appearance in the record was not in the heyday of ancient Rome. It would take several hundred years at night, and it should appear after the division of East and West Rome.

It’s hard to say which Roman Empire’s craftsmanship is, because this legendary cup was only mentioned in the early Middle Ages. The cup appeared in the early or mid-fifth century. Of course, it’s not ruled out that there was an earlier one. , This is not clear, otherwise it will not be a "legendary thing."

The magic of the 　　 Lakegos cup is that it is said to be made of two-color color-changing glass, which has very unique optical properties-the cup appears green when light is irradiated from the front, which means that it is usually dark green.

　　 But when the light shines from behind, the cup appears bright red!

　　 Well, color separation with light is a feature discovered by modern people. For example, Zhang Nan, there was no flashlight in ancient Europe. At that time, the legend did not use light to send this wine glass to a legendary altar!

　　 How did the ancient Romans embody the magic of this cup?

　　 There are records in ancient books, but no one has tried it before—how can you try without a cup?

　　 Even if there is a cup, who is willing to try?

　　 Someone in the workshop didn't know what the Lakegos Cup was. After Jerry Gooden Cowan's preliminary explanation, it was a general idea.

　　 Amazing craft!

　　 How did Zhang Nan find out?

　　 is a flash, he noticed the red at that moment just now, and then thought that this time he should have got a few rare objects that he would like!

　　I'm in a good mood, as for Jerry, it's all excited!

　　 "Boss, the Lake Gus Cup has long been lost. This is the first one found in modern times. The other cups here should also be..."

　　 Zhang Nan shook his head and interrupted him: "No, Jerry, there is a similar one in the British Museum, but they haven't made it public."

　　 Jerry Gooden Cowan was taken aback, "Why not make it public? This is a remarkable discovery."

　　 Ancient European black technology, almost all nations in this world like to show off their own history, including all magical craftsmanship.

　　 "I guess it is to prevent some people from being upset, regretting, or not caring about their family's big business, there are too many good things."

regret?

　　 Where does this start?

When everyone has questions, Zhang Nan had to say again: "The Lake Gus cup in the British Museum, I remember it was given to you by the will of someone from the Rothschild family a hundred years ago, but at first it was probably only precious. Ancient Roman glass goblet, I don’t know it is the Lykergus cup.

　　 The person has collected it for a long time without discovering the magic of the cup, otherwise it should be made public, at least in a small circle.

　　 By the way, it may be that the people in the museum still want to figure out why the cup can change color like this. Who knows the specifics. "

　　 Zhang Nan said that, no one knows why there is such a cup in the British Museum. It is normal to have a secret that the boss knows but doesn’t know. If the boss tells you, just listen and don’t ask more.

Some secrets can be said, some secrets Zhang Nan will never say—the peculiar discoloration effect of this goblet was discovered in 1990, but the museum staff worked with some scientific researchers for more than 20 years, and it was not solved until 2013 Mystery: The glass fragment of the goblet was observed under a microscope, and it was found that gold and silver metal particles were dissolved in the glass, the diameter of which was about 50 nanometers.

　　 The ancient Romans used their wisdom to interpret one of the unique applications of nanotechnology, which is a different concept from the modern common use of color-changing glass containing silver bromide and trace copper oxide.

　　When the metal particles in the glass of the Lakegos glass are irradiated optically, the electric charge vibration of the metal particles can change the color of the glass. The color change depends on which angle the observer views from.

This is the conclusion drawn by experts in the direction of glass and optics, but the Lykergus Cup is not so simple: Archaeologists analyzed that the Lykergus Cup was used to serve drinks on special occasions in ancient Rome. The charge vibration of the metal particles changes when the foot cup is used, and at the same time changes their color.

　　Unfortunately, after discovering the magic of that cup, those scientists and archaeologists couldn't fill the Lykergus cup with liquid for testing. What if there is any chance?

　　 But there are exceptions, what if UU reading www.uukanshu.com dare to do this?

For example, Zhang Nan would drink a bowl with rice wine in a Chenghua chicken cylinder cup, and eat a meal with an enameled enamel bowl with Xinglin Chunyan map made by the Qianlong Emperor. The guy who put the big plate in the manor’s study room as a fruit plate, if not sure, will restore the Lykergus Cup to the role it should have been 15 centuries ago.

　　 There are fruit plates in the study?

Normally, Zhang Nan likes to eat fruits. Besides, he has a lot of blue and white plates. It’s not too ridiculous to put a sturdy low coffee table in the study—he has two study rooms, and the one with the plates is really quiet for reading. It’s hard to throw a plate in a place.

　　 But this time Zhang Nan doesn't know how to drink from the cup, at least wait until it is completely cleaned up.

　　 "Take it away first."

That said, Jerry immediately brought a plastic storage box of the right size, and separated it with a new towel at the bottom, so that interesting cultural relics should be treated specially, and the cleaning work is not in a hurry. At least wait until the next construction site. .

The magic cup was stored, and Zhang Nan took out the second cup from the silver box. After seeing the pattern on the outer wall of the cup, he smiled and said to the side: "It seems that I can change the name of this cup. It caused a chaos in academia."

At first glance it looks exactly the same as the previous cup, but the main body of the relief pattern on the outer wall of this cup is no longer the naked-naked-man who may represent "Like Gus", but replaced by a man fighting with a lion. The image is also very different: this should be Hercules, the Hercules in ancient Greek mythology!