The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

This is Africa, not China! This really shocked Zhang Nan-the thought even flashed through his mind for a moment: "Did someone cross to North Africa more than 2,000 years ago?

wrong! If you cross, could it be from China to North Africa? Contemporaneous Teleport?

Alien abduction?

......"

For a moment, a mess of thoughts jumped in my mind: If this is a North African tomb that is only a few hundred years old, it wouldn’t be too strange that a Chinese-style copper tripod appears, because Zheng He should have been to the coast of the Red Sea, let alone At least since the Tang and Song Dynasties, China has also had some economic and trade exchanges with distant Africa.

This kind of trade even existed in the above-mentioned Han Dynasty, and even if there was no direct trade, there were many "international middlemen" at that time, at least in the Tang Dynasty there were big black-clothed and white-clothed merchants in China. Northern Sudan seems to be the territory of the Arabs.

But this is an ancient tomb about 2500 years ago!

What period was China 2500 years ago?

Confucius seemed to be forced to leave Lu State and began a fourteen-year exile life traveling around the world, running around preaching; Wu State should also defeat Yue State, Gou Jian was preparing to humiliate and seek perfection, and go to Fu Chai to pretend to be his grandson.. ...

At that time, China had direct or indirect contacts with Africa?

"That's not right, then there might be a powerful Persian First Empire stuck in the middle of the road. How did this bronze cauldron come over?..."

Zhang Nan's brain is running fast enough to catch up with the supercomputer: let alone other things, at that time there was a huge first Persian Empire stuck in the current position of Iran.

The Persians occupied India to the east, waged several wars with Greece to the west, and destroyed ancient Egypt and Babylon to the southwest, but they did not seem to have reached Kush.

How did this bronze tripod come from?

William Brin is a historian and expert in ancient Egypt, but not limited to this, at least typical oriental cultural relics are still recognized.

So just now when the "Aya Cha Cha" stepped aside and saw the bronze cauldron in the tomb, he was taken aback.

The first time I thought of looking for Mr. Allen-Mr. Allen is a Chinese, but also a collector and lover of antiques and cultural relics. In the previous chat, William knew that Zhang Nan has a high level of knowledge on Chinese cultural relics.

Now Zhang Nan can see at a glance that the copper tripod placed near the huge coffin is a China Southern style copper tripod, three-legged, small in size, at most 30 centimeters in diameter, and its height is a third more than the diameter. What one looks like.

And even if there is still some distance, you can clearly see the beetle patterns and three-dimensional dragon decorations all over the head.

There is a three-dimensional dragon-pattern appliqué on the tripod, coupled with the "slender waist and tall" shape, you can see that this is 100% of the Chu country from a few glances: the three climbing beasts are unique to the Chu country.

The tomb is about 20 square meters. The huge coffin occupies a large area in the east, and the copper tripod was placed on a wooden table in front of the coffin.

There are burial objects with ancient Egyptian styles nearby, and the bronze tripod is such an eye-catcher.

Guan Xingquan was also nearby, looking at the bronze tripod a few meters away, a little stunned-he had moved Chinese bronzes many times and had seen more in the museum, and he could see that there was a problem.

"Anan, it's a bit strange."

When Zhang Nan heard it, there were 10,000 alpacas jumping in his head!

I didn’t expect that even Guan Boss would be funny...

There were several jars from the cut to the copper ding, and Zhang Nan took out a pair of gloves and put it on.

Upon seeing this action, Guan Xingquan on the side said: "Be careful inside, the mercury vapor is basically gone, but there may be on the surface of the item."

Zhang Nan nodded.

William on the other side wanted to say something, but he opened his mouth and didn't say anything in the end.

Behind them, several Sudanese officials and people from the United Nations did not express anything to Zhang Nan's actions: they were eager to clean up the tomb soon.

Moreover, they still don't know that there is an unreasonable thing here: Everyone will be an official, how many are professional?

Putting on the gloves, Zhang Nan was preparing to walk in.

So I stepped in cautiously, Guan Xingquan stared at the back, and Alyosha, who came in to "join the fun", stopped in the opposite direction-the boss wants to see things, whether you are from the United Nations or any official from the Sudanese Ministry of Culture, I will leave it to Lao Tzu outside. Wait!

The light inside the tomb is not very good. First, check if there are any cultural relics scattered on the ground, so as not to step on it.

The ground was very clean. After walking a few steps, I arrived in front of the Tongding. Instead of touching the Tongding, I took a flashlight and took pictures everywhere.

Enter the ancient tomb, don't just stare at the most conspicuous thing, there may be new discoveries nearby.

Surrounded by North African specialties, I squatted down and checked the place where the bronze tripod and the painted wooden shelf were connected.

Very good, just put it on top.

He got up and took the flashlight, and looked around Tongding again.

Unlike the high ancient bronzes unearthed in China, which often have a layer of patina or patina similar to "black paint ancient", this bronze tripod has the original bright color of bronze and is slightly silvery white~www.readwn.com~ Of course, this does not mean that this bronze tripod is a new item placed here by aliens. It only maintains the original color of the bronze and was smoked by mercury vapor: last time I dug the Western Zhou bronze wares in Yangjia Village, West Qinmei County. , There are also some blocks on the surface of several pieces of copperware that have similar conditions.

Because it is dry and isolated from oxygen.

And from the surface of this bronze cauldron, it has been "used" for a long time now. There is a layer of sleek patina formed before entering the tomb-the tomb is so dry that people can become mummy, and the bronze cauldron is well preserved. very good.

As for mercury vapor, it seems to have some reaction when it encounters copper, but Zhang Nan, a liberal arts student, doesn't understand what it will produce. Anyway, it should not be a highly toxic substance.

Then...

Inside the copper tripod, Zhang Nan saw what he wanted to see most: inscriptions!

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there are at least dozens of characters in the bird seal script of Chu.

But the problem is... Nima, I still don’t know him!

After using my spare time to study the Bronze materials for such a long time, the characters of the northern countries can be recognized seven or eighty-eight, but this bird seal script still basically makes myself confused.

This can't be regarded as ordinary text at all, it is more like painting!

However, this is definitely a copper tripod from the Chu Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period of China, and this cannot be wrong!

After recognizing it for a while, he finally recognized two words: Chu X Wang.

I don't know the word in the middle.

No matter what, he carefully picked up the copper cauldron and walked out, and handed it to Guan Xingquan, who also put on his gloves.

As soon as they came out, and saw everyone in the front hall of the tomb looking at him, Zhang Nan took a breath and said in English: "This artifact is a bit special. I will study it for two days.

William, you start to clean up now, gentlemen have to hurry up and report up. "

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