After finishing the salvage team, Wu Tianyuan returned to the capital, repaired for two days and went to find the National Archives through Niu Feng, borrowed a lot of information about Awa Maru, and finally found a lot of clues in a Japanese army diary. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"You're going to salvage the Awa Maru?"

Niu Feng was a little surprised at first, but soon became excited and said, "Okay, this thing can be done!" ”

"Awa Maru has always been missing, and there is a huge wealth on it, not only gold jewelry, but mainly Peking skulls, which are also national treasures among national treasures."

Peking Man skull fossil, discovered by Chinese paleoanthropologist Pei Wenzhong in 1929, and later archaeology officially named this ancient man: Chinese ape man Peking species, referred to as "Peking Man", but this fossil was mysteriously lost in 1941, and the loss of Peking Man skull became one of the "world strange cases" in the history of human archaeology. Since then, there have been various theories in the archaeological community about the whereabouts of the Peking Man skull fossil.

On December 2, 1929, on the Dragon Bone Mountain in Zhoukoudian, Beijing, Chinese paleoanthropologist Pei Wenzhong discovered for the first time a complete, 500,000-year-old Peking Man skull.

In 1936, under the auspices of Chinese archaeologist Jia Lanpo, three other complete Peking Man skulls and one complete human mandible were excavated in Zhoukoudian.

In 1937, Japan launched a war of aggression against China, and archaeological work was forced to stop.

The greatest of these was that it fell into the hands of the Japanese, and in the early morning of December 5, 1941, the Peking skull boarded a special train to Qinhuangdao with the U.S. Marines. The train arrived as planned on the morning of the 8th. On this day, the Japanese army raided Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese troops stationed in North China quickly occupied the American institutions and facilities in the Beijing-Tianjin and Qinhuangdao areas, and the trains and military personnel of the American Marine Corps became prisoners of the Japanese army, and the supplies and baggage, including the skulls of the Pekingese, became the trophies of the Japanese army. All concerned believe that the Peking Man skull fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders.

The second is that there are rumors among the people that the US Legation played a "contract transfer plan" with the Japanese, and on the surface the fossils were sent to Qinhuangdao on a special train, but secretly they were secretly sent to Tianjin, preparing to go to sea from Tianjin.

In the fall of 1980, Dr. Shapiro, an American anthropologist, came to China and found out from the archives of the U.S. Marine Corps that the Peking Man skull had indeed been parked at the U.S. military camp in Tianjin. In the 90s of the 20th century, a veteran who participated in the war of aggression against China revealed that the skull fossil was hidden in the center of Beijing. But the results of the excavation were disappointing, and after nearly three meters of excavation, no buried objects were found.

In the March issue of Science South Africa, experts from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researchers from South Africa jointly published a study that found new clues to the whereabouts of the skull of "Peking Man". Based on the recollections of Richard Bowen, a U.S. Marine Corps soldier during World War II, they came up with a speculation that the "Peking Man" skull might be buried under a parking lot somewhere in Qinhuangdao, China.

In 1972, when then US President Richard Nixon visited China for the first time, in addition to expressing friendship on the political side and seeking communication at the economic level, Nixon and his entourage also provided a special gift to the Chinese side. The specific location of the sinking of the Japanese Awa Maru in Chinese waters and the list of loaded cargo.

The U.S. side wants to cooperate with the Chinese government in salvaging the Awa Maru, and the archives on the Awa Maru record that the Awa Maru contained handicrafts, artworks, and valuables that Japan smuggled out of China during the war. According to expert speculation, the fossilized Peking Man skull may be on the Awa Maru.

In 1977, a project later identified as "713" was officially launched. The goal of the project is to salvage the Awa Maru and unravel the mystery of history. Due to the technical conditions at the time and the physical limitations of the divers, it was discontinued in 1980. Among the recovered items, no clues related to the Peking Man skull were found.

There are also various rumors, such as that in 1996, before his death, a Japanese veteran sent a message to the Chinese authorities that the fossil was buried under a pine tree in Ritan Park, and the pine tree was also specially marked, and the relevant personnel did find the pine tree later.

However, when digging to a depth of more than 2 meters, the experts still did not find any buried objects, let alone any groundbreaking. Subsequently, the excavation area was expanded again, but no buried objects were found.

Later, news came out in Zhoushan, Zhejiang, that the fossilized skull of Peking Man may be on the shipwreck of the "Lisbon Maru".

According to relevant records, in the early morning of October 2, 1942, the transport ship "Lisbon Maru", which was carrying more than 700 Japanese officers and soldiers, as well as more than 1,800 British prisoners and belongings, was torpedoed and sunk while passing through the waters near Zhoushan.

In the 80s of the last century, the American anthropologist Shapiro said in the book "Pekingese" that a former Marine once told him that the fossils had been transferred to the United States Marine Corps barracks in Tianjin.

On October 21, 1971, according to Feeley, an American doctor who carried out the mission to escort the Peking Man fossils abroad, the box containing the Peking Man fossils was placed under the wooden plank floor of Building 6 in the basement of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks compound in Tianjin.

It is reported that the old barracks have changed hands several times, and now belongs to the Tianjin Health School, Building No. 6 collapsed in the 1976 earthquake, and then razed to the ground and changed into a playground, and even the foundation was dug up when the building was repaired, and there was nothing. One thing is certain, however, that the fossils were indeed transported to the barracks.

Niu Feng has specialized in studying the whereabouts of Peking skulls, and he personally believes that it is on the Awa pill, and today he heard that Wu Tianyuan is finally going to hunt for treasure, and he is very excited.

"Leave the formalities to me, since you personally contributed money and efforts to salvage, plus your current reputation and status, there is absolutely no problem."

"Once other treasures are found, they can be displayed in the Tianyuan Museum, but the skulls of the Pekingese must be handed over to the state, which is ......"

Wu Tianyuan said indifferently: "No problem, if you find it, it will definitely be donated to the National Museum, I don't need it much here, it's a big deal to borrow the exhibition for a few days." ”

watched Niu Feng rush to go through the formalities, and waited for Lao Qiao's side to start salvage directly. Wu Tianyuan really has no interest in skulls, fossils belong to another type of collection, its research and academic value is higher, but the aesthetics are average, what is so good about the skull of an ancient? (To be continued.) )