About 3,000 years later, a German merchant named Heinrich Schliemann, based on the two epics Iliat and Odyssey, excavated the site of Troy buried deep underground more than 2,000 years ago and found the “Treasure”. Priam treasure” in the northeast of the Xiasia peninsula. This German businessman also discovered the tomb of the Mycènes Royal Family in a ravine on the Borobennisa peninsula and dug up a treasure buried deep underground for 3,000 years, allowing the treasures to see the sunlight again. .
In Northern Germany, in a small town called Mekhbaobang, there lived a poor pastor. One day in 1832, he gave 10-year-old Schliemann a book on World History compiled by Yeleer as a birthday gift. I hope your baby will love this birthday gift. Schliemann was originally a boy who was very eager to learn, but because his family was poor, at the age of 14 he had to drop out of school and work for a grocery store. During his teenage and young adult years, he had to wander around to make a living.
In 1856, Heinrich Schliemann began studying Modern Greek and Ancient Greek. Because he has great intelligence, he learns very quickly. In a month and a half he finished learning modern Greek, then studied ancient Greek for two months. Once he had mastered the poetic rules in Homere’s epic, Schliemann had an unrealistic intention and decided to excavate an ancient citadel mentioned in the epic. In the spring of 1869, Schliemann realized his great dream.
According to the description in Homer’s epic, near Troy there are two underground streams: “The underground stream has hot water, steam rising rapidly, rising into the air like a hot smoke screen; but the other underground stream On the contrary, its water, even in summer, is as cold as ice and snow.
In April 1870, Schliemann received a permit to excavate that site from Turkish officials. He began excavating the sunken Troy at Mount Xisalihk with the hope of recreating the ancient Trojan civilization.
Schliemann undertook the excavation of Troy
Excavation work began in January 1871 and lasted 3 or 4 years because the work was constantly interrupted. In mid-March 1873, Heinrich Schliemann again excavated a large area of land north of Mount Hissarlik. But this time of excavation, he was a bit disappointed, because the site was a bit small, hardly enough to describe the monumental scale of the Troy Citadel that he had imagined through Homere’s description. But he also considered that, as a poet, Homer must exaggerate every incident many times over. Perhaps that is why in three times of digging, he has not found any gold bars or gold products.
One morning (the day before June 15) in the light sunlight, Schliemann and his wife stood next to an ancient city wall 29 meters deep. Suddenly, he saw an object made of green copper lying below the wall. When he stepped closer, he discovered that behind that block of green copper, there was something emitting a sparkling light like gold. Schliemann immediately called his wife closer and whispered in her ear, “Let the worker rest now, run quickly.”
After the workers dispersed, Schliemann gently used a knife to scrape off the soil around the green copper block. Finally, the ground revealed the sparkling light of gold and the light of ivory. His wife used a red shawl to wrap each treasure. Among these treasures, the most valuable are two magnificent golden crowns, whose beauty is captivating and captivating at first sight. The large crown made from 1784 gold slabs is truly beautiful. Around it are also hung 75 short strings and 18 long strings, each strand is made of peach-shaped gold pieces. Short strands hang down on the wearer’s forehead,Long strands hang down over the wearer’s shoulders. The face of the person wearing the crown is surrounded by sparkling gold light. The second crown is similar to the first, but the strings are hooked to the ends of gold leaves. The string at the back is relatively short, only covering two buns. The craftsmanship of these two crowns is very sophisticated and perfect. In addition, here, Schliemann also unearthed 7 gold rings, 2 gold cups, 3 agate cups, 4 large gold boxes containing 65 ear rings, 8600 small silver cups; There are also perforated prisms, buttons,… gold bars and small objects made of Cerium, vases made of silver and copper, weapons, and dumbbells.
To be contiued
