Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 2444: Abandoned civilization
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Downstairs of the hotel, the security was extremely tight. Honduran military police with loaded guns and ammunition were everywhere, completely blocking off the area in front of the hotel.
Many vehicles of the three-party joint exploration team have been parked end to end at the entrance of the hotel, waiting for the joint exploration team to come out.
Although this town is very close to the ancient city of Copan and it doesn't take much time to walk there, for the sake of safety and the convenience of transporting a large amount of exploration equipment, the joint exploration team decided to go there by car.
Compared with when we arrived at Copanrinas two days ago, there were seven or eight more all-terrain vehicles in this convoy, which looked very conspicuous.
In the later exploration, we will inevitably enter the lush mountains and forests around the ancient city of Copan. By then, vehicles such as SUVs will be of little use and can only be parked outside the mountains and forests.
The only ones that can really play a role and carry a large amount of exploration equipment and various supplies are these all-terrain vehicles with extremely strong passing capabilities.
Not long after the convoy arrived in front of the hotel, the three-party joint exploration team walked out of the hotel.
The first to appear were the Honduran military police responsible for protecting the joint exploration team on the outside, followed by the heavily armed Matisse and others.
After confirming that it was safe outside, Ye Tian and David, as well as Professor Delgado, Professor Douglas, Hernando and others, just came out of the hotel.
The last ones to come out were the other members of the three-party joint exploration team. There were a lot of people in total, and there were more boxes filled with various exploration equipment and other equipment, which looked a bit impressive.
Especially Ye Tian, who was fully armed and carrying a short assault rifle in his hand, was even more eye-catching.
His appearance caused those guys who were watching the excitement in the distance to take a breath of air-conditioning and secretly feel frightened.
"I'll go! Is this **** Steven really going to explore the treasures of the Golden City of the Mayan Empire? Why does it look like he's going to fight in the tropical rain forest? It's too exaggerated!"
"It seems that this guy has been prepared for a long time. Anyone who tries to **** the treasure of the Golden City from him will become this guy's opponent, and he will kill those guys without hesitation.
If this three-party joint exploration team really finds the treasure of the Golden City of the Mayan Empire, then there is no doubt that there will be a **** storm around the ancient city of Copan, and even corpses will be everywhere! ”
While people were talking, Ye Tian and the others got on the car one after another and disappeared from people's sight.
Soon, the tripartite joint exploration convoy started with a bang and slowly drove towards the ancient city of Copan outside the town.
When this convoy drove through the streets and passed in front of the guys heading towards the Golden City, those guys immediately took action.
"That greedy **** Steven has made a move. Ramos, it's time for us to move too. Let's split up according to the plan we made before. We must not let that **** Steven sweep away the treasures of the Golden City!"
In a room on the second floor of a small hotel on the street, a Hispanic man standing in front of the window said in a deep voice. This guy's eyes were always fixed on the motorcade on the street below.
Two or three meters away from him, Ramos stood in front of another window with his arms folded, also staring closely at the joint exploration convoy on the street.
"Okay, Silva, I'm going to take the guys right away. We'll keep in touch at any time. Everyone should be careful. Steven is a notoriously ruthless guy and extremely difficult to deal with!"
Ramos nodded in response, then turned and left the room.
Looking at his leaving figure, the Hispanic man named Silva couldn't help but flash a look of jealousy, even mixed with a bit of hatred, in his eyes.
If Ramos looked back and saw this scene, he would instantly understand where Silva's jealousy and hatred came from. Of course it was because of the windfall that fell from the sky!
The crazy windfall hit him and several of his subordinates, but it had nothing to do with Silva. After the news was accidentally leaked, it immediately attracted jealous looks, and even There is hatred!
The ones who are jealous and hateful of these lucky ones happen to be other members of the Guatemalan Special Forces who came to Copanrenas to perform the mission, including Silva, the leader of another special operations team!
As Ramos and Silva left the room one after another, these guys from the Guatemalan special forces quickly launched into action.
The same scene is happening in different places in Copanrinas. This border town has once again made waves, and it feels like a storm is about to come.
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The ancient city of Copan is not far from the west side of the town, and the joint exploration convoy arrived soon.
For today's joint exploration operation and for safety reasons, the Honduran military police blocked the ruins of the ancient city of Copan early and prohibited any tourists from entering or exiting.
When the tripartite joint exploration team arrived, it was very quiet here. Not a single tourist could be seen, only many Honduran military police with live ammunition could be seen.
After the convoy came to a stop and the scene was safe, Ye Tian and the others got out of the car and stood in the square directly in front of the ruins of the ancient city of Copan.
The same goes for other members of the joint exploration team. Everyone got off the car and landed on this ancient land, standing at the door of the most glorious civilization in ancient American history, the Mayan civilization!
As soon as everyone landed, they looked up and saw the towering main pyramid in the ancient city of Copan, and a vicissitudes of history and mysterious atmosphere suddenly hit their faces.
The ancient city of Copan, also called the Copan Mayan Ruins, is located in Copan Reynas, in the west of the Copan Province, Honduras. It is connected to the small town of Balio to the west and is very close to the border between Honduras and Guatemala.
This famous Mayan civilization site is located in a square dense forest that is artificially isolated and protected, covering an area of 0.05 square kilometers. The main pyramid of the site is in the northeast corner of the forest.
In fact, this is only the central area of the ancient city of Copan, which archaeologists call the main building complex. As for other buildings in the ancient city, they are scattered in the surrounding mountains and forests, or have long since disappeared.
In more than 200 BC, this was the royal capital of the Mayan Empire. It was one of the most important cities in the entire Mayan Empire and the center of scientific, cultural and religious activities at that time.
According to research, the ancient Mayans came to the Copan Valley as early as more than a thousand years ago and lived and worked peacefully in this fertile valley.
The rich volcanic ash here makes the land quite fertile, so the Mayans were able to live here carefree for thousands of years.
Later, as the Mayans continued to expand and fight, the royal capital of the Mayan Empire changed several times and moved to other places in Central America.
However, the ancient city of Copan still plays a very important role in the Mayan Empire.
In 426 AD, a Mayan named Sapphire Blue Parrot, also known as the Blue Bird, came to Copán from Teotihuacan, the city of the gods in the north, and settled here.
The Sapphire Blue Parrot probably saw that the Mayan Empire in the highlands was beginning to decline, so it came to the Copan Valley, which is rich in jade, to seek development.
The sapphire blue parrot himself is not only a brave warrior, but also proficient in the art of sacrifice, and can help the locals live a better life.
In this way, the sapphire blue parrot quickly won the support of the locals, built the first large temple in Copan, and then established a Copan dynasty that has been hereditary for more than 400 years.
In the classical era of the Mayan civilization, the Copan dynasty founded by the Sapphire Blue Parrot lasted for fifteen generations, ruled the Copan Valley for more than four hundred years, and built Copan into one of the largest cities in the Mayan Empire.
Later, after a series of internal and external wars, as well as food shortages caused by population growth and crop failure, as well as other natural and man-made disasters that continued to occur, the Kingdom of Copan gradually declined.
In 822, shortly after the last king of Copan, Tuc, came to the throne, Copan, like other major Mayan cities, encountered a series of catastrophes.
Wars, diseases, floods and droughts ruthlessly claimed the lives of a large number of Mayans. As a result, farmers' faith in the ruling class was shattered, and everyone abandoned the city one after another.
The coronation monument to King Tuke was only half-finished when the craftsmen were already gone.
The royal family of Copán lost the support of the people and never ended up. The aristocratic temple rituals and hieroglyphics were lost, and the civilization declined.
Although the Kingdom of Copan has since completely disappeared, a small number of Mayans still live in the Copan area.
It is impossible to verify whether these Mayans came from the Kingdom of Copan, which once ruled here. Although they still grow corn on the land of Copan, they have forgotten their beliefs and temples.
Around 1200 AD, the once glorious ancient city of Copan gradually disappeared into the tropical rainforest and was completely swallowed up by the wildly growing rainforest plants.
In 1576, Spanish Diego Garcia discovered the ruins of this ancient city submerged in the grass on his way from Guatemala to the city of San Pedro Sula in Honduras.
The ruins of this ancient city at that time included pyramids, altars, squares, six temples, stone steps, thirty-six stone tablets and carvings, etc.
This is the first time that the ruins of the ancient city of Copan have appeared in the eyes of non-Mayans. However, this is a great archaeological discovery and has not attracted much attention.
In 1839, this place was rediscovered. At that time, the ancient city of Copan was already a desolate scene.
The stone tablets engraved with Mayan hieroglyphics have long been broken and tilted, the sacred and solemn temples have long since collapsed, towering trees have grown on the buildings, the cracks in the rocks are filled with fig tree roots, and ancient vines are covered with remnants. wall.
However, the rediscovered ruins of the ancient city of Copan finally attracted the world's attention.
Shortly thereafter, research and archaeological work on the ancient city of Copan began one after another.
In the 1960s, as many Mayan hieroglyphs engraved on stone tablets were deciphered one by one, people finally understood the history of the Kingdom of Copán and how glorious this abandoned ancient city once was.
In 1980, after realizing the great significance of the ancient city of Copan to the Mayan civilization, UNESCO included it in the World Heritage List as a human cultural heritage.
At this time, the three-party joint exploration team was standing outside the gate of the ruins of the ancient city of Copan, admiring the mysterious and glorious Mayan civilization!