The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The discovery of a large number of uncirculated gold coins in the early 7th century AD can confirm from the side that the Knights Templar had obtained a number of treasures hidden before Jerusalem was captured by the Persians. This is a major discovery!

Similarly, it also indirectly proves how the Knights got the seven-branch candlestick: the candlestick disappeared for almost 1400 years. It turned out that 600 years of it were hidden by the Jerusalemites in the 7th century, and later by the Knights Templar.

As for why the Knights did not disclose the existence of the Seven-Branched Candlestick at the beginning, it may be because Jerusalem is not just their family, or because it does not want the Candlestick to be taken away by the Vatican...

They are the most powerful army in the hands of the Pope. What if the Vatican wants a candlestick?

Give or not?

People are always selfish.

This "why" is very likely to be an eternal mystery, and there will never be a correct answer!

The major discovery here can also provide a side explanation for the large-scale expansion of the Knights Templar soon after its formation. Perhaps not only was it grown by the privileges granted by the Pope, but they also unexpectedly received a huge amount of start-up funds. .

You must have money for bidding!

Even if you can collect taxes and rob, it will take time and luck. Obtaining a large sum of wealth at a time, of course the rate of explosion will be faster.

Of course, it is also possible that when they get the treasure, they are already not short of money, so they have strategic reserves.

For this, perhaps it is a mystery that will never be solved.

But in any case, this discovery is very interesting. Zhang Nan and Jerry still need to digest them, and they didn't think that Rick had made more important discoveries.

Seeing him in such a hurry, Zhang Nan asked back: "What's the situation?"

"It's text, boss.

The base of the candlestick was originally on the lower side, but there was a lot of text on the buried side, which we hadn't seen before. "

The base of the candlestick is a hexagon, which is buried in a pit after being laid down. The upper part is less than 30 cm away from the water pipe in the 1920s.

Because of this distance, the result was not discovered before.

When it was dug out just now, the hexagon has one side down and it weighs about 300 kilograms. It’s not convenient for everyone to turn it over. During the process of lifting it on the ground and putting it on the cart, the side is covered with the most soil. The "bottom" is always downward.

The other five sides are all embossed character patterns and religious stories. I originally thought that the sixth side would be the same. I didn't think that when Rick was cleaning up, he found out that all of that side was actually written!

In this level of cultural relics, words are basically more precious and important than pattern stories, because words may solve many historical mysteries, if those words record historical content rather than religious stories.

Not to mention, Zhang Nan climbed up the pit along a small aluminum alloy ladder and signaled with his hand. Naturally, a few bodyguards covered the pit with a piece of plastic cloth, and then four people entered the enclosed pit with their backs to the pit. car.

Look!

Zhang Nan and his group walked to the wine castle and asked as they walked: "What text?"

Rick Becker said with excitement: "It may be ancient Hebrew, very primitive writing, or even ancient Canaanite.

I'm not familiar with this kind of ancient writing. Jerry should be better than me. "

Zhang Nan hasn't said yet, but Jerry Goodenkorn on the other side hurriedly said, "Don't be funny, Rick, how can I know the ancient Hebrew in the early days? At best, guess.

In ancient Canaanite, you because I am God?"

What Jerry wants to express is very simple: don't talk about him, there are not many people on earth who can know the ancient Hebrew script 2500 years ago. As for the earlier ancient Canaanite?

"Hehe" directly!

It is estimated that even God his old man will have a headache when he comes!

The reason why Jerry said this, Zhang Nan knew the reason: No way, it was too early, and this early writing seemed to have been cut off for 2500 years!

The Canaanite script, of course, is the Canaanite script, and the Canaanites are actually what the Phoenicians call themselves. They are the northwestern branch of the Semites in the west. They lived on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea more than 3000 years ago. A highly civilized ancient country was once established along the coast of Lebanon and Syria.

The 10th century BC to the 8th century BC was a period of prosperity for the Phoenician city-state, and there was also a long history of civilization before it.

Time passed, the Phoenicians had long since disappeared in the sea of ​​smoke and clouds. The records about them were all written by the ancient Greeks and Romans who had suffered from the Phoenicians. Therefore, modern people treated the Phoenicians. Little is known about the situation.

As for the ancient Canaanite script, there are currently two theories. One is that it is a kind of hieroglyph; the other is that it appeared around 1500 BC, and the Phoenicians changed the original on the basis of cuneiform writing. Dozens of simple hieroglyphs are alphabetized to form letters.

Almost all modern alphabets can be traced back to the Phoenician alphabet, such as Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin...

And like other ancient writing system scripts, the earliest ancient Hebrew letters considered by modern people are also hieroglyphs. The Phoenician alphabet in the first statement can be regarded as a brotherhood. To put it bluntly, it is the continuation of the Canaanite alphabet. The same evolution.

The earliest Hebrew script was used from the Kingdom of Judah until the Babylonian period, until it was replaced by the cubic Hebrew alphabet around the 6th century BC. Later, the Hebrew script went through many changes. Today’s Hebrew The text is very different from the original Hebrew text.

To put it simply: the earliest ancient Hebrew script, now it is not fully recognized by the gods, basically rely on guessing!

There are too few cultural relic entities for systematic analysis.

As for the pronunciation of ancient Hebrew, it is even more interesting: in 70 AD, the Romans destroyed the Jewish capital of Jerusalem, and the Jews were expelled from their homes and exiled all over the world.

Since then, Jews began to use the language of their country of residence, causing Hebrew to gradually disappear as a spoken language, but it continues to exist as a written language.

In the second half of the 19th century, a Lithuanian Jew named Yehuda determined to resurrect Hebrew. His first child became the first child to speak Hebrew as his mother tongue in 1800.

He also started to compile a Hebrew dictionary to actively expand his vocabulary.

At this point, it can be understood that after a word of spoken language disappeared in 1800, the spoken language was miraculously resurrected. How much can this pronunciation be similar to 2000 years ago?

There will be no recorder!

Wisdom has no limits, and imagination has no boundaries. It has to be said that Jews are tenacious and creative!

What text is on the base of the candlestick?

A group of people walked quickly into a garage in the wine castle, and the huge candlestick was temporarily placed here: it was lifted up by a roller, and then a few strong wine barrels were used against it, and people drilled down and watched with a flashlight. .

Zhang Nan also went down to observe: dozens of rows of words were cast on the surface of the gold plate. I just glanced at it twice, and came to two conclusions in my mind: First, the text on the base is a word by itself and I don’t know it!

Second, this should be alphabetic characters, not pictographic goods.

Jerry on the other side took a few more glances and said, "This is an Arami alphabet~www.readwn.com~ not a cube Hebrew alphabet!"

major discovery!

The Amila alphabet can also be regarded as the embryonic form of the ancient Hebrew alphabet. It was used from the kingdom of Judah to the rule of Babylon, although it was not only used by the Jews.

Later in the 6th century BC, the Aramaic alphabet used by the Jews began to be replaced by the square Hebrew alphabet. At that time, an important event happened: The Solomon Temple built in 960 BC was replaced in 586 BC. The Babylonians burned on fire, and the Jews began to be expelled!

This shows one thing.

Zhang Nan said: "If it weren’t for posterity to make up letters, then this candlestick should have been in Solomon’s First Temple. After the Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem, even if the Jews could insist on using the Aramaic alphabet for dozens of hundreds of years, they I don’t have the financial resources and ability to cast this candlestick!"

This candlestick is the original in the first temple, not a copy!