Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Dr. Liang, apart from pure speculation, do you have any evidence to prove your conjecture? A student from the University of Peshawar asked Liang En.

For these students, being able to communicate with professionals at the forefront of historical research is definitely an opportunity that needs to be grasped, so they will naturally take the initiative to ask various questions.

Perhaps because everyone was of similar age, the conversation went smoothly. At the same time, the students also began to ask questions that they did not understand.

For example, this is the theory proposed by Liang En. Although others have put forward similar views when excavating similar ruins, there is not much evidence.

This is mainly because the previous ruins were excavated too early, and the ruins were also severely damaged, so there were not many traces left, and it was difficult to determine some things.

If we want to talk about evidence, I do have some evidence here. Liang En smiled, then pointed to the ruins below and said: I think everyone should have checked the general situation of this ruins during this time, right? .”

Yes, that's right. The young student who asked the question nodded, At least the entire city in general. The map has been drawn, and the uses of many buildings in it have been determined.

Although all that is left now are dilapidated ruins, many things are very easy for professionals to judge.

Finding some important information from some kind of tiny clues is a basic skill for professional archaeologists and historical researchers, and many important histories have been pieced together in this way.

To take the simplest example, the walls of the residences in the ruins are very thick, so it can be simply inferred that these buildings used to have two floors, so more time, energy and materials were needed to build thick walls.

After all, the overall climate in this place is hot and humid. If it were not to support the upper floor, then people would prefer to build thinner walls to cool down the temperature.

Another example is that during the exploration, we discovered that most of the ground floors of the ruins, which were confirmed to be residential remains, were facing the road and had a complete wall with no windows——

This urban custom, designed to protect against bad weather, noise, odors, neighbor harassment, and bandit invasion, is still followed in many places in the Near East, especially in some old towns of ancient cities.

In addition, the main entrance of all residential houses is located in the alley at the back, facing a spacious foyer, and a courtyard in front. The lighting and ventilation of the house are very good.

One conclusion that can be easily drawn from this design is that this city must have a very professional construction plan and carry out unified overall planning and construction.

Because only in this way will those buildings reflect a large number of consistent places, which is a phenomenon that ordinary people will never see when they build alone.

Very good, then you will find that the construction of this city is very unique. After confirming that everyone understood the general situation of the city, Liang En expressed his opinion.

Because he had lectured for a long time before, Liang En also summed up his own set of explanation methods. For example, he now uses inducement to make those who ask questions take the initiative to think, which will naturally help them master knowledge.

Judging from the current exploration, the ancient city has a circumference of about 5 kilometers, and the population is estimated to be at least 30,000-35,000. It is divided into two parts: the acropolis and the lower city. The acropolis is for the rulers to live. There is a very complex underground drainage here. Systems and Water Systems.”

The most important thing is that the acropolis is surrounded by tall and solid walls. For example, the acropolis wall in the ancient city of Harappa in the north is 15 meters high. It is like a solid fortress. In addition, it also has tall towers.

Yes, this is what we found, but what does it mean? The student was a little confused after hearing Liang En repeat what everyone had found before. He didn't know why he mentioned it again like this.

Don't forget the 15-meter-high city walls, towers, huge barns, and a population of more than 40,000. Liang shook his head slightly, and then said seriously.

This means that this ancient city has solid city defenses, sufficient food reserves, and can recruit 8,000 troops in wartime based on a population of 40,000. This all represents the city's defense capabilities.

Obviously all of this was not prepared for wild beasts, not to mention that several cities of the same size have been discovered in the Indus River Basin, which clearly shows how tense the situation was back then.

In such an era of war, it is very common for cities to be destroyed, and it is not impossible for a civilization to disappear as a city is destroyed.

Whether in ancient times or today, cities are the concentration of human activities and the core of productivity in a region, so as these cities are destroyed, a civilization will gradually dim.

For example, this was the case with ancient Indian civilization. As these cities that were the core of civilization were destroyed, the entire ancient Indian civilization also experienced significant degradation.

Those people no longer remember the honors of their ancestors, and they also lost the various skills their ancestors had. In the end, the entire civilization completely disappeared into history.

This is actually not a rare thing in world history. For example, the Mycenaean civilization that Liang En excavated before completely disappeared from history in this way.

The reason for the disappearance is also very simple, that is because the rise of a large number of maritime peoples obviously affected the transportation lines of the Mediterranean at that time, thus cutting off the channels for the Greeks to obtain ancient Egyptian goods.

Although ancient Egypt, as an ancient civilization, exported a variety of items, there were only two important items for the Greeks at that time, one was food, and the other was tin.

Needless to say, the importance of food goes without saying, especially for Greece, which has a small land and mostly mountainous areas. Planting cash crops such as grapes and olives for processing and exchanging food can be said to be the lifeline of this civilization.

As for tin, it was an absolute strategic material in the Bronze Age. Unlike copper mines and fuels that could be produced everywhere, there were not many tin mines produced in the ancient Mediterranean region, mainly concentrated in Egypt.

Once there is a lack of tin, it will be difficult to make various bronze tools and weapons, which will naturally put the entire country at a disadvantage in war.

After all, it is almost impossible to win without food and weapons, and the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization in the Mediterranean was related to this situation.

It seems that the reasons for the destruction of civilizations are common in many cases. After listening to Liang En's first-hand information about the Mycenaean civilization, the scholars present nodded and said.

After this matter was recognized by everyone, Liang En continued to talk about his analysis, but compared with more orthodox analysis content, Liang En's analysis can be regarded as a hodgepodge.

For example, he now believes that the reason why this ancient city was abandoned should be a combination of both, that is, the city's destruction was due to a combination of war and floods.