Chapter 1262: Splendid Civilization and Ashes of Time (46/66)
"Really?"
Andy smiled disapprovingly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he stretched out his fingers to carefully caress the pattern of the statue in front of him.
Now that it has fallen into his own hands, this group of precious historical witnesses will be completely silent in the years to come, and he will create some unsolved mysteries with his own hands, as for whether his subordinates will leak the news, he is not worried, even if it leaks, he will not admit it, who can do anything with him!
"What about the other one?"
Andy withdrew his hand, with a big smile on his face, turned to look at Joseph and asked.
"Here it is. Joseph led Andy around the headless statue to a sealed wooden box placed in the center of the warehouse, bent down, and carefully opened the side of the wooden box, revealing an oversized bottle shaped like a grenade, because the bottom of the bottle was a sharp arc, which could not be placed on the ground, and a holder wrapped in a wool blanket held the whole bottle.
"More than 5,000 years old Sumerian alabaster sacrificial bottle!" Andy's eyes radiated a bright light, the Sumerian cultural relics are the cultural relics he values the most, and its value belongs to all mankind, and it is also the most precious.
The Sumerians were the creators of the early cultures of the Two Rivers Valley. Cuneiform was created first. It is the world's earliest verifiable civilization. It is also recognized as an "early high civilization" in the world.
Each of their gods represents a star, and each star is surrounded by a number of different planets, large and small, and the whole astrological map is almost exactly the same as that of modern people!
The story of the Great Flood in their myths and legends, which was later adapted by the Jews into the Old Testament, is the story of Noah's Ark.
They are also black-haired, who have conquered the valley of the two rivers as outsiders, and they also have a dragon culture, with a dragon with two horns on their heads, and Nyingma, (read it a few times like whom?) is called the "goddess of fertility" in Sumerian mythology. She led the project of creating man ...
"These are Sumerian mythological reliefs found with sacrificial bottles, all of these ten chests. β
Andy stood up, followed Joseph to the ten long wooden boxes stacked on metal supports, and said with some excitement, "Which one has a flying ball pattern with people flying with wings spreading?"
Joseph seemed to be prepared, pointed to a wooden box with a red triangle pattern on the top and said, "This is the piece, after you asked, boss, I asked them to put this piece on the top." β
"Very good, open. Andy took a deep breath, stepped forward, and looked at the box lid opened, showing in front of him a meter wide, about one meter long, about one meter and a half long, with a broken relief on both sides, the figure shape of the body is in the shape of a round crutche, the facial expression is calm and uniform, the eyes are wide, the relief has a sense of movement and space, and it depicts some people driving flying balls with wings spread and stars on their heads.
"Oh God, how is this possible?" said Lima, too, as he poked his head over the relief and screamed in disbelief.
"Hehe, nothing impossible, there are also humans in spacesuits found on the reliefs of the Egyptian pyramids, not to mention the pattern that looks like an Apache helicopter, some things are inexplicable. If you can't understand it, just treat it as a myth and legend, don't bother with it. Andy patted Lima on the waist and explained with a smile.
Lima's somewhat shocked expression slowly calmed down, hugged Andy's arm, and said in an incredulous tone: "Honey, these... β
"These are all rescued from war-torn areas, these are all treasures of human civilization, since I have the ability, I naturally want to do my best to protect them, so that they will not be destroyed, and leave this precious and splendid civilization testimony for future generations, I have this responsibility!"
Andy's face was solemn, with a compassionate look, and he reached out to caress the relief that was isolated by the vacuum bag, but he withdrew his hand as if he was afraid of damage.
"My dear, your idea is so great that you can build a museum in the future, so that everyone can feel the grandeur of human civilization... β
Listening to Lima's admiration and looking at the little star in her eyes full of admiration, Andy coughed unnaturally twice and nodded.
Joseph and Kenny on the side looked at each other, and they both saw a trace of embarrassment in each other's eyes during eye contact, and they were speechless for the great kindness of their big boss who was serious and shameless.
"Ahem, boss, these boxes are Sumerian handwritten manuscripts, relics from the Babylonian period... Joseph coughed lightly and continued to introduce his boss.
"Oh?" Andy carefully opened the more delicate small suitcase, showing some scraps of paper in front of him, took the white glove belt handed over by Joseph, picked up a piece of tweezers, looked at it, tsk, I don't know...
It's all cuneiform, and if you don't study it alone, you won't want to recognize this ancient script.
"Which of these Sumerian artifacts made it took us a lot of effort to 'protect' them?" Andy asked with some embarrassment as he put the pieces of paper away, then closed the suitcase.
Joseph nodded with a grim face, for this batch of things, two employees were wounded by grenade shrapnel, eliminating 12 people on the other side, and the strength of 'protection' can be seen.
Ahem, that's right, this is how the jackals eat and rob from the underground black marketγγγγγγ
"Is the bonus in place?" Andy asked lightly, he naturally wouldn't treat people who worked hard for him.
"It's all sent down, and they are all very happy to be able to serve the boss. Joseph replied with a nod.
"That's good. Go ahead and let's see what else is good. Andy chuckled.
"These seven chests contain a large number of necklaces, daggers, and pottery made of gold. It was the precious artifacts that were stolen in the museum theft that caused a sensation in the world, about 300 pieces, we went a little late, and 10 of them were transferred to Syria...
These ten are the jewels in the palace of the Azov people in Iraq and the Tomahawks of the Sumerians...
362 cuneiform tablets...
These are all from Afghanistan and include porcelain, stone carvings, Buddha statues, bronzes, and ancient coins from the 3rd century BC, weighing about 3 tons...
The 11 wooden boxes here contain stone statues, sacrificial vessels, bronzes, clay pots, and jewels that are more than 2,000 years old. β
Andy took the exquisite catalogue and atlas, looking at the photos on it, the corners of his mouth turned up more and more, this is the real war money, all the things in the album in his hand come from the Kabul National Museum, if it weren't for him, a great good man who has rescued the treasures of human civilization, these things would have flowed to the black market, were resold again and again, and finally disappeared in the long river of history.
"Whew-"
Andy exhaled a breath of turbidity, squinting his eyes slightly, and sincerely felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier, he couldn't watch the catastrophe of civilization happen in front of him, he decided to let Joseph officially issue the task of 'rescuing' the treasure of civilization after that...
"How many are there here, have you counted them?" Andy closed the album and handed it to Lima, who was already dumbfounded and a little numb.
"I haven't counted it specifically, after all, some gold coins, jewelry, gems and something are too fragmentary, excluding these small pieces, there should be more than 2,200 pieces of scale, when Afghanistan installed the machine, it was directly stacked in a wooden box and sealed for shipment, so it was very messy, and it could only be calculated by weight. β
Joseph's answer made Andy shake his head helplessly, and after making a round, Andy stood in front of the headless statue of King Ntimmena of the Lagash Dynasty, and after a moment of silence, he said leisurely: "It seems that I need to build a separate modern 'palace' to preserve them." β
"There is also the need to find some Zhongdong archaeological professionals to sort and restore
The construction of the treasure room also requires the advice of these professionals. At this point, Kenny spoke.
Andy nodded, and said disapprerovingly: "It's easy to build a museum, just find an expert to design it, but sorting and repairing it requires real senior experts, or find it from Argentina and Iraq, and you can't make mistakes." β
"I understand, don't worry, boss, I'll take care of this matter. Joseph's face returned to coldness.
"Well, there's no rush in this matter, let's build a place first!" Andy glanced at Joseph indifferently, then smiled and took Lima and walked to a box with various colored gems, "Let's go, let's go back and pick up gems." β