The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Hundreds of kilograms of gold want to exchange atomic bombs with Israel?

Ordinary gold is of course not possible, but this huge gold candlestick is really possible-it is even more likely that Mossad will take the candlestick from Zhang Nan like crazy, provided that he must replace it with an atomic bomb.

But as Andre said, if Zhang Nan wanted other items that the Israelis could get, he would be full of what he really wanted.

This candlestick is very important to Israel!

It’s a long time ago. It’s said that a famous man made this huge candlestick with seven branches out of pure gold 3200 years ago. It is six Roman feet high. The middle one of the seven lamps is slightly higher than the six on both sides. It represents Shabbat, the remaining 6 branches represent the 6 days of creation.

Later, this candlestick became a sacred instrument in the Jerusalem Temple. The first temple was destroyed by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC. At that time, the whereabouts of the golden candlestick were not stated and there is no record.

In 539 BC, the Persian Empire destroyed the Kingdom of New Babylon. The Persian King Cyrus the Great issued an decree that the Jews should return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple in 537 BC.

However, due to the unsuccessful reconstruction process, the second temple was completed in 515 BC. By 37 BC, the temple was expanded by Herod the Great. The golden candlestick was kept in the temple during this period.

In 70 AD, the Jews rebelled against the tyranny of the Roman Empire. As a result, the Roman general Titus led an army to besiege Jerusalem. The Second Temple was burned down, the Romans looted the sacred objects of the Temple, and the golden candlestick was taken away as a trophy by the Romans. Only a wall to the west of the temple remains.

More than 1900 years have passed. Since the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple, these seven pure gold candlesticks have been lost and disappeared in the past 1400 years: the most widely spread is that they have been kept in the Vatican.

In Rome, there is a Triumphal Arch of Titus built in 81 AD to commemorate the victory of Titus, the second emperor of the Flavian dynasty in the Roman Empire, to suppress the Jews before he came to the throne. The Triumphal Arch still retains the ancient Romans at that time. After plundering the gold candlesticks from Jerusalem, returning to Rome, eight strong men carried the candlesticks in a triumphal deep-relief scene.

In fact, it is not only the relief image of this giant candlestick on the Triumphal Arch of Titus. There are 7 candlestick patterns on some ancient Jewish coins, Jewish tombstones, and mosaic floors in Jewish synagogues. In fact, This unique golden candlestick has become the symbol of Judaism.

The record says that it is six feet high. This measurement shows that it is in line with the record: the length is 175 cm, and the Roman ruler is 29.6 cm long, the difference is less than three cm.

It's very heavy. Under the candlestick is a hexagonal hollow base, with mission reliefs on the sides of the base. The part has been squashed, but even if it is empty, when the photo is taken, it feels that the overall weight of the candlestick will not be less than 300 kg!

The candlestick was moved to the ground, and Andre found that the reactions of the people present were very interesting: a group of Americans were watching the lively state, not fanatical.

Bodyguards do not need extremes, very qualified.

Those guys from Huaxia looked like a slightly strange thing, and the look in their eyes seemed strange. They just heard two experts say that this thing has a history of 3,000 years, and then heard one or two "oh".

It's not that I haven't seen gold. Besides, I have dug all the pyramids in Egypt. It is obviously trivial in 3000.

There are many Israeli veterans in the "United Forces", but Andre has long discovered that there are not only Israelis in the boss’s core bodyguard group, but even Jews. This is not because the boss hates Israelis. It's more like a deliberate avoidance.

Except for the Red Devils, Andre, everyone else is not surprised by the huge gold candlestick and the pit of gold coins, even Jerry Goodenkorn and Rick Becker. The two guys who study history and cultural relics are like this!

What can this explain?

Andre knows that there is only one reason for this reaction: it is numbness, numbness after habit becomes natural!

These people should have seen treasures that are much more exaggerated than this, and it doesn't matter long ago.

In addition, deliberately avoiding the Jews and the Nazi BRICs that sent Andrei and others before...

Well, the boss has obtained 100% of the hidden treasures of the Third Reich. Compared with the items searched by Hitler, this pit thing does not seem to be a big deal except for religious reasons.

The candlestick was temporarily laid flat on the grass. Someone went to take the cart carrying the large wine barrels in the chateau. Jerry and Rick took advantage of this effort to clean the dirt on the candlestick.

Jerry also cleaned up and said: "It was originally said that it was secretly stored in the Vatican, and that it had been hidden in a cave in the Galilee in northern Palestine..."

Now it is clear, but Zhang Nan has a question: after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD, the Romans transported the candlestick back to Rome as an important trophy. Then where did it go in the past 1900 years? ?

Zhang Nan had doubts, and Rick Becker, who was covered in mud, said: "The Jewish historian Joseph of the first century made a record of this, saying that the candlestick was later stored in the Temple of Peace in Rome.

It is most likely that the candlestick was taken to the Carthage region of North Africa when the ancient German Vandals sacked the city of Rome in 455 AD.

Later, according to Procopius, the historian of the Eastern Roman Empire, in 533 the candlestick was transported to Constantinople by the Byzantine army under the command of Justinian I’s general Belisarius. At that time, for this candlestick, the Byzantine army A triumphal parade was also held deliberately.

The candlestick was sent back to Jerusalem by the Eastern Roman Empire, and there was no written record of it.

Many people think that it was very likely to be destroyed when the Persians looted Jerusalem in 614 AD~www.readwn.com~ Now it seems that it was not looted or melted down at the beginning, and it is most likely that it was hidden.

Later, they were found by the Knights Templar, and before Saladin conquered Jerusalem, the candlestick was secretly transported out again..."

From the very beginning, the Knights Templar used the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as its headquarters. Many of these are because the Knights learned that the legendary Temple Mount has hidden treasures. It may be in that section of the temple. Within the time of the mountain, I got the hidden candlestick.

Zhang Nan didn't comment on Rick's statement, but instead said: "There is also another possibility. For some reason, the Knights Templar copied a candlestick by themselves. They have this financial ability."

Only 300 kilograms of gold is a trivial matter to the Knights Templar in the era of victory.

Rick smiled, "That's going to take some time to research."

The metalworking craftsmanship of the 13th century BC and the 13th century AD is very different. This is not difficult to distinguish. It just needs evidence that can convince the boss. Rick and Jerry are not in a hurry.