Section 72 Homesickness
What's even more incredible is that the Acre people have mastered the solar eclipse cycle and the movement of the sun, moon and Venus a long time ago, and even accurately calculated the time of the earth's revolution around the sun is 365.2424, and the error rate is only 0.0002, which means that the error in 5000 years is only one day.
It's incredible, and it's hard to imagine how the Aka people did it.
Ten thousand years is just a very short time compared to the millions of years that have elapsed since the birth of mankind.
In this short period of more than 10,000 years, the Aka people have created a splendid and brilliant civilization, which made Chen Rui puzzled at first.
But from this stone tablet, Chen Rui found the answer.
The Acre people are descendants of Atlantis, and they carry on the legacy of the Atlantean civilization.
Just as miraculously as the Acre civilization rose and developed, its decline and disappearance are equally mysterious.
It seems to have suddenly disappeared into the long river of history.
Chen Rui wanted to know the answer.
Chen Rui walked down the pyramid and came to the center of the ancient city.
As the descendants of the Atlanteans, the architectural layout of the city is based on the urban pattern of Atlantis in many places.
The architecture of Atlantis is in the shape of concentric circles, arranged from low to high in the center of the layer, and as it progresses deeper into the center, the hierarchy is differentiated, and the status restrictions are gradually stricter.
The central part of the city is the base camp, and the most important buildings are the Temple of Poseidon, the royal palace, the temple, as well as public buildings such as the arena, the amphitheater, and the public baths.
In the center of the ancient city of Acre, the architectural layout is also a very important location, and some important buildings and core buildings, such as the pyramid of Acre, squares, statues, temples, palaces, etc., are built here.
Chen Rui came to the statue.
The statue is made of marble material, and when you look at it, it is more than 20 meters high, including a base that is more than 6 meters high and 15+ meters wide.
Chen Rui stood under the statue, feeling extremely small.
With such a large statue, it is hard to imagine how the Akha people carved it a long time ago. How did the Acre erect it in ancient times, when there was no lifting equipment.
Chen Rui's footsteps were a little closer to the statue, admiring the statue carefully.
The silhouette of the statue is fresh, soft and subtle, and the details are excellent, the bones, muscles and hair appear smooth and elegant, especially the folds and ornaments of the statue's dress, which are almost impeccable.
From this point of view, it can be seen that the Akha people possess a very exquisite and superb carving art.
The statue depicts a man of the prime of life, dressed in a military uniform, holding a spear of the sea in his left hand and a shield carved in relief in his right hand, with a giant serpent inside. The helmet is carved with a Pegasus sea beast, and the cuirass is a relief of the waves of the sea.
He stood on his legs, his arms were muscular, and the green tendons on his hands were exposed, as if he had accumulated infinite strength.
What made Chen Rui strange was that the direction of the statue was not facing the people below, but facing the west, looking and gazing in the direction of the Atlantic Ocean.
Chen Rui noticed the statue's facial expression and the look in his eyes.
The Akha people, who have extremely superb carving technology and exquisite carving technology, have carefully carved the face and eyes of the statue through special carving techniques, and the longing expression and eyes of the people of the statue are extremely expressive, and a stranger who misses his distant hometown is almost carved alive.
Chen Rui also found that there was a line of text on the bottom of the statue.
Chen Rui didn't recognize the Akha characters, but he did know one of the numbers.
Numbers are made up of a dozen strokes, one horizontal and one vertical.
Chen Rui had no trouble interpreting it, and it was the same as the numbers on the pyramid stele.
One horizontal represents 1, one vertical represents 0, and like the binary numbers of modern computers, the two numbers 1 and 0 can be translated into any number.
Chen Rui translated this number, and the result was 7845.
7845!
Based on this number alone, Chen Rui couldn't guess anything.
Chen Rui wanted to know what this number represents?
As for why the statue faces west, in the direction of the Atlantic Ocean.
Chen Rui combined the third pattern on the pyramid stele and had some guesses.
The statue may have been a leader of the Acre, most likely the first generation of the Akha people, who led the first generation of Akha people to escape from the tsunami, earthquake, and sunk in the West, crossed the sea to the American continent, and then, along the Amazon River, upstream, and finally, settled in the Artka Mountains.
Because there is their homeland on the other side of the Atlantic, the Akha people spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build this huge statue, which faces the direction of the Atlantic, and there is an expression of infinite longing on its face and eyes, which proves this.
The spear on the statue's hand, the shield of the giant serpent relief, the armor of the sea wave relief, and the helmet decorated with the Pegasus sea beast were most likely not forged by the Akha people after they came to the Artka Mountains, and the level of metalwork of the Akha people was not enough to forge such a beautiful and ornate equipment.
It is likely that these were the standard equipment of the Atlanteans, brought here by the first generation of the Acreans-
After leaving the statue, Chen Rui came to the temple.
The temple is a rectangular white marble building, the scale is very grand, more than 100 meters long, more than 50 meters wide, more than 20 meters high, covering an area of thousands of square meters, equivalent to the area of a large playground.
The temple is surrounded on three sides by two rows of more than 100 huge columns, all carved from marble, each nearly 20 meters high, which support the massive roof above.
The lower part of the column body of the marble cylinder has different forms of sea beast reliefs, the shape is beautiful, the form is realistic, and it is lifelike.
The column top plate consists of a frame with three plate seats, which are decorated with a row of lace-like tooth ornaments, and above the frame are reliefs carved with Pegasus sea beasts, which are delicate and exquisite.
The interior and exterior of the shrine are decorated with elaborate reliefs made of copper, silver, and gold.
This temple is not dedicated to gods in the usual sense, such as the common god of the sun, rain, grains, death, war, wind, and corn in South America, which are closely related to practical daily life, but a sea god, holding a spear and riding a sea beast with three heads, crisscrossing the sea in the blue waves.
You know, it's very far from the ocean, and ordinary indigenous tribes have lived here for generations, and the concept of the ocean is fundamentally there.
This further confirms that the Akha people came from the sea.
There was a room next to the temple, and Chen Rui pushed the room open.
Suddenly, I was shocked by the house full of gold and silver treasures.
As described in Fred's expedition log, it was splendid, splendid, and full of gold and jewels.