Soon, Dongfang Chen found the result he wanted. Originally, there were not only two columns of stone pillars, but the central axis of the entire temple mausoleum where the central pool was located, and there were four columns and eighteen rows of stone pillars on each side.

In other words, the Tower of Babel was nearly twenty meters deep underground, and a building dedicated to the enshrinement of spiral artifacts, as well as the burial of the kingdom and some of the top privileged classes, and the combination of sacrifice and mausoleum.

According to the detection data, it is about 138 meters long, 60 meters wide, and the total building area is more than 8,000 square meters, accounting for one-third of the size of the bottom floor of the Tower of Babel.

Such a huge underground project must be supported strong enough, so the 144 stout stone pillars that are hugged by four people are inevitably needed.

Previously, Dongfang Chen was first attracted by the pool he saw first, coupled with the lighting problem, so he didn't care too much about the number of stone pillars.

Now that all the images were put together in his mind, the general layout of the underground temple and mausoleum was revealed.

Suddenly, he was slightly surprised and let out a sigh. It turned out that by imagining the overall layout of the temple, Dongfang Chen found that the pool he found when he first entered here was actually located in the center of the temple.

Located in the very center, and on the way to the artifact, the pool must be weird!

Confident that he had not been wrong, he hurried to the edge of the pool.

Without a trace of hesitation, Dongfang Chen knelt on the ground and began to pick up the hard sand with both hands, rummaging through it carefully.

This kind of thing of starting to treat cultural relics and monuments violently without doing any preparation work is definitely an atrocity that is disgusted in the industry, and it is a typical tomb robber's behavior.

But at this time, Dongfang Chen didn't care about a lot, and the clues were almost a little bit emerging, how could he be pedantic and conservative? Only while keeping moving in his hands, he comforted himself in his heart: Who made me a student of Professor Mu? Is it a great tomb robber wanted in the world, a top gold master in the industry, and a master of the two halls of Moyu, Li Mu?

What kind of master there is, what kind of apprentice there is, this is normal!

After turning over three or five times, his fingers suddenly touched a hard object, and when he took it out, it turned out to be half a skull, and it was only a mandible, and there were a few teeth scattered on the half-moon-shaped skeleton.

Burial pits!

This was Dongfang Chen's first thought when he saw the skull. But soon, he reversed his idea, because as the excavation deepened, more and more bones were cleared.

The strange thing is that almost none of the bones are complete, and there are obvious traces of sharp blades chopping at the fracture, and each bone has been chopped into very small pieces.

I'll go, this isn't a burial, it's a corpse, right? Mass graves aren't so horrible!

How can the martyrs be treated like this?

Could it be that the ancient Babylonians had a different form of burial than in other places, and they used to chop people up and sacrifice them?

But the next digging became more and more wrong. Not only were more fragments of bones excavated, but large quantities of gold, silver, and bronze artifacts began to appear, as well as a variety of precious stones and rare ores of incredible beauty.

It seems that the bottom is almost dug up, and all the good things are sinking to the bottom.

Strange, this burial pit is too luxurious, isn't it? Ancient Babylon was so good for burial slaves?

After thinking about it for a while, Dongfang Chen had an idea, and opened his mouth to shout: "Hand shovel, hand shovel." Don't just watch, let all the probes outside come in, and clean up this big hole for me!"

Not long after the order was issued, hundreds of probe robots poured into the previously excavated holes, and after changing and combining with each other, they turned into teams of excavation and cleaning construction teams.

After nearly two hours of intense work, the excavation and clean-up work was basically completed. The result surprised Dongfang Chen.

The surface of this pool is no more than the size of an ordinary bedroom, but it is about 30 meters deep, and the amount of water that is removed from it is counted in tons. There are more than 20,000 gold, silver, copper, and bronze vessels alone. Due to corrosion and oxidation, many metal utensils have been glued together and become a lump of things with no artistic value.

There are also a variety of fine ornaments, metal vessels, stone objects, statues, pottery, precious stones, jade, hedrons, ores, and fragments of various materials.

There are thousands of other skeleton fragments, and the hand shovel is directing the younger brothers to try to restore those bones, and three have been pieced together. Interestingly, those bone fragments were not only human bones, but also the bones of many various animals. The bones of one of the most numerous animals, which can be determined at a glance, are two fingers wide and palms long.

Looking at the probes flying around like a swarm of bees, working hard to piece together the complete bones of the kings of the past, Dongfang Chen couldn't help frowning. After the death of other rulers, they were afraid that others would steal and humiliate their bodies, so they all took great pains to seal their bodies like an iron wall, so they gave birth to mausoleums, sarcophagi, coffins, and so on.

These buddies are good, and they directly chop themselves up and throw them into the pool to feed the fish. Alas, this fetish can't figure it out!

In fact, Dongfang Chen completely misunderstood, thousands of years ago, there must have been something he couldn't imagine. The reason why the successive Babylonian kings had such a strange burial form is, in the final analysis, the fault caused by the "infinite ladder". In the concept of life and death, which derives from the infinite ladder, the central doctrine is that death is new birth.

So how to die, this is very important. In the eyes of those priests and kings, death must be like the phenomenon that occurs at the "exit of the stairs", the focus is on "sudden disappearance", so it must be completely dead, without leaving any traces of the sun, so there is the act of chopping one's body into pieces.

But the broken corpse does not mean disappearing, so there is a pool dedicated to the burial of the king. The pond houses a species of fish that lives only in underground water veins. Because it only lives underground, it is called the fish of the underworld by the priests, and it is said that it is the messenger of the god of death, and is responsible for attracting the souls of the dead.

Only by being eaten clean by these fish can we truly remove the worldly flesh and mortal fetus, and try to conform to the "infinite ladder" method of death.

Among the cultural relics sorted out, Dongfang Chen was not interested in any gold, silver, and gems at all, but set his eyes on three flat columnar stone tools that were as black as ink and nearly one and a half meters high. Not only are there clear cuneiform inscriptions engraved on it, but there is also a seated bust of a human figure carved on the top of the pillar. It's so compelling.

Dongfang Chen walked over, squatted down and carefully inspected the three stone pillars, and with just one glance, he was like being struck by lightning, and his ears roared endlessly.

Because he was all too familiar with it: the famous Code of Hammurabi!

As the greatest achievement of the life of Hammurabi, the sixth monarch of the First Dynasty of Babylon, this code brought mankind a wealth ten thousand times greater than the two famous buildings left by the Babylonian civilization to later generations: the Tower of Babel and the Hanging Garden.

Now, Dongfang Chen has seen it here, plus the funeral goods of today's fainting people, then it can only explain one problem: the kings of the ancient Babylonian kingdom are buried in this big pit in front of them, including Hammurabi.

Moreover, Dongfang Chen also found that there were far more cuneiform characters on the three stone pillars than the one that the Elamites had robbed.

This should be the complete version of the Code of Hammurabi. At this time, by comparing the cuneiform characters on the rightmost piece of codex, Dongfang Chen was finally able to stumble and try to decipher the contents of the other two stone tablet codex. Because the stele on the far right is the same as the one on display in the Louvre, he can recite it backwards.

Finally, he learned from the three stone pillars how the entire social system of the ancient Babylonian city-state kingdom worked.

According to his popular understanding, the rightmost legal code was set up for the subjects of the whole country, and Dongfang Chen called it a human code. The one on the left is about the rules that mortals should follow when they enter the underworld after death, which he called the Hades Codex. And the middle one, the largest of the three stone pillar codex, describes the requirements of the gods for mortals, as well as some taboos, called the canon.

I see. The real Code of Hammurabi is not one, but three. And this feat was not the work of Hammurabi alone, as the three codes of law combined thousands of years of ancient Babylonian wisdom and knowledge. What has been handed down to the world is only a code of people that applies to the world. The canons and canons of the gods were reserved for the sacrifice of the kingdom and were not known to outsiders at all, or in other words, those who did not share the ancient Babylonian worldview and beliefs were not eligible for the protection of the two codes of the gods of the underworld.

In Dongfang Chen's view, the canon and the canon are not so much some kind of mysterious and strange taboo rules, but rather the ancient Babylonians' awe and worship of the reincarnation between death and eternal life. And the source of this kind of thinking comes from the mysterious "infinite reincarnation ladder".

For real life, the canon and the canon are far less meaningful than the canon of people, but for the people at that time, these two mysterious codes of law were definitely more authoritative and sacred than the canon of people.

Then Dongfang Chen spent a lot of time, coupled with intelligent help, and began to decipher the contents of the two codes of the Pluto God word by word.

When the decipherment was largely completed, he got enough of a secret that almost drove him insane......