Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 2868: Well-preserved ancient weapons
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Father Harris and the deputy abbot of St. Catherine's Monastery discussed in a low voice, and then consulted the deputy minister of culture of Egypt before making a decision.
In line with the results expected by the three-party joint exploration team, St. Catherine's Monastery agreed to dig out the ancient armory buried deep underground.
However, care must be taken during the excavation process 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 artifacts and gold and silver treasures, except for religious relics, the rest will be divided equally between the Egyptian government and the Brave and Intrepid 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 send out people to form an excavation team to excavate this ancient armory buried deep underground!
The exploration team that discovered the ancient armory, as representatives of the Valorant Exploration Company, stayed on site to supervise but did not participate in the excavation.
After deciding on the action plan, Joshua and Bishop Kent immediately called their respective people, and soon transferred several exploration team members into the monastery to form an excavation team.
Next, Ye Tian gave these guys a few more words and then asked them to start digging.
When the excavation operation officially started, Ye Tian and his party left here and walked to the monastery library to continue their exploration.
Similar to the previous exploration of St. Helena's Church, Ye Tian also discovered something in this ancient library, but he did not reveal the discovery, but kept 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 rare and even priceless hand-written rare books, such as the oldest surviving "Codex Sinaiticus" of the Bible.
The secrets hidden in these hand-copied rare books, such as the secret letters in 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. They even record some major secrets in the history of Christianity, which are almost the same as religious relics!
Once such a thing is discovered, it will definitely be collected by St. Catherine's Monastery or the Vatican, and will never fall into Ye Tian's hands.
And these things are extremely sensitive. They can be said to be hot yams. Even if they were given to Ye Tian for free, he wouldn't take them. He didn't want to cause trouble!
Because of this, he did not tell the secrets hidden in the library. He just pretended to explore them seriously, then left the library and walked into the adjacent museum!
Like the rare ancient books in the library, each of the ancient paintings, paintings, and other antique artifacts and artworks collected in this museum is closely related to religion.
At the same time, these antique cultural relics and artworks collected in the museum also reflect the history and life of Europe in the past, 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 antiques and art collected here, rather than 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 were also closely related to religion, but they were not Solomon's treasures and the Ark of the Covenant. Since he could not obtain them, he had lost interest in making them public.
While he was admiring the top antique artworks, Derek and the others took pulse metal detectors and thoroughly scanned the walls and floors of the museum, but found nothing. 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 and were ready to explore the next place.
At this moment, an excited voice suddenly came from the intercom.
"Steven, you'd better come and take a look. We dug out the ancient armory you mentioned. There are indeed many ancient weapons buried in it, and they are all in good condition!"
Hearing the announcement, Ye Tian immediately stopped and turned to look at the other people at the scene.
The rest of the people also heard the announcement, with excitement on everyone's face and a bit of admiration in their eyes.
Although what was discovered was not Solomon’s treasure and the Ark of the Covenant, it was still a small surprise and worthy of celebration!
What everyone admired was Ye Tian's sharp eyesight and judgment. Everyone was secretly amazed!
Next, Ye Tian led everyone over to the city wall, and everyone's footsteps were extremely brisk.
When the group of them walked near the base of the city wall, still seven or eight meters away, they saw several Roman daggers that had just been cleaned up.
Several archaeologists and historians from Israel, the Vatican, and Egypt were studying carefully with several Roman daggers, and everyone's eyes were shining with excitement.
Because the area where St. Catherine's Monastery is located is extremely arid, has a relatively high altitude, and is inaccessible, these Roman daggers are in very good condition!
Although they have been buried underground for more than a thousand years, these Roman short swords do not have many traces of rust on their swords. Even the guard wood on the hilt looks intact!
The gentle **** at the base of the city wall has been dug out, and a large pit about two meters deep has been dug.
The bricks and slates originally laid on this barren **** were pried up and moved aside. The sand and gravel dug out from the ground, as well as the wood that was about to carbonize, were piled around the big pit. One hill after another.
While talking, Ye Tian and his group had arrived at the edge of the pit, and they all looked towards the bottom of the pit.
At the bottom of this large 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 entrance of the pit, Ye Tian and the others saw some Roman daggers, shields, spears, and many broken arrows, all buried by sand and ruins, with only a small part exposed.
Like the Roman daggers that have been excavated, these ancient weapons buried at the bottom of the pit are also in very good condition. Except for some carbonization of the wooden parts, the metal parts are almost intact!
Seeing this scene, everyone was so excited that they almost cheered.
At this moment, an archaeologist from the Vatican suddenly interrupted and said:
"Stephen, your previous inference is very correct. This is indeed an armory. At some time in ancient times, it collapsed for unknown reasons and buried all the ancient weapons inside.
In this ancient armory, we found the standard dagger used by the Egyptian provincial army of the Roman Empire, 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 in good preservation condition and have certain research value. They are a batch of antique weapons of very good quality and 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 casually took the ancient Roman dagger and admired it with interest.
Joshua and Bishop Kent did the same. They each picked up an ancient weapon that had just been cleared from the bottom of the pit and admired it with great interest!