Chapter 3008 Statues that Are Rivals

After opening the hole of the cave with hidden treasures on the cliff, the master rock climbers from Israel and Sudan began to drill pitons around the hole and install rope drop equipment.

However, they did not wantonly destroy the entrance of the cave, such as expanding the entrance, but tried to protect the Shandong as much as possible, and they did not immediately drill into the cave to explore the treasure.

The work of entering the cave and exploring the treasure will be completed by the subsequent exploration team members who climbed the cliff, including all excavation and cleaning work.

After installing the cable drop device, the few rock climbers came down from the cliff and rested in the valley.

Immediately afterwards, Peter and another Israeli security guard climbed up the cliff over there, and successfully reached the hole in the anti-bow area in the middle of the cliff.

But they did not enter the cave. Instead, through cooperation with ground security personnel, they hung two young archaeologists from Israel and Sudan from the cliff and sent them into the cave.

As the two archaeologists entered and as the light entered, the interior of the cave hanging high in the center of the cliff was finally presented to everyone.

The treasure that has been hidden in the cave for an unknown number of years has finally unveiled its mysterious mystery.

After climbing into the cave, the two archaeologists first wiped off the dust on the stone walls on both sides of the cave entrance, and cleaned up the gravel on the ground of the cave entrance.

With their movements, the ancient characters and patterns engraved on the stone walls on both sides of the cave finally appeared, which was much clearer than the pictures taken by the beetle drone before.

As you have seen before, many ancient Hebrew characters, some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and ancient Syriac characters are engraved on those two stone walls.

Among them, the ancient Hebrew texts basically tell the stories in the "Talmud", and the "Talmud" version quoted is even older.

In addition, the two stone walls are engraved with the patterns of Mount Sinai and the "burning thorn" respectively, with strong religious colors.

The temple building carved on the cave wall on the left looks like the famous Second Temple.

This discovery caused cheers in the valley and thrilled all the Israelites.

"My God! Why is there a pattern of the Second Temple here? Could it be that the ancestors of this Israelites have always been in contact with Jerusalem?"

"If this is really the Second Holy Temple, it is enough to show that at least before 70 AD, the ancestors of the Israelites lived in this valley and discovered this cave on the cliff!"

Compared with these excited Israelis, those senior officials of the Sudanese government who were present at the scene were more concerned about what treasure was hidden in this cave, and how much was it worth?

After cleaning the entrance of the cave, the two archaeologists climbed into the cave and went deeper into the cave.

At the same time, the lighting equipment they carried also illuminated this extremely hidden cave.

Compared with the pictures taken by the miniature beetle drone before, the area inside the cave is more than doubled.

Entering from the entrance of the cave, there is an open space, which is equivalent to the front hall, and there seems to be a lot of space behind.

It's just that because the cave is winding and winding, blocking the line of sight, I don't know for the time being how deep and how big is the cave?

On the ground of the front hall of this cave, there are many things piled up, piled up into a hill, covered with dust.

Through some of the gaps, it seems that one after another can see bright golden light.

It can be seen that there must be a lot of gold or gold products hidden under the thick dust.

And around the front hall of the cave, on those naturally formed stone walls, there are many niches of different sizes, the number is as many as ten or twenty.

Each alcove was filled with items, mostly statues, but also what appeared to be some pottery and religious objects!

In addition, the front hall of the cave is facing the entrance of the cave, and there is a small altar, but it is empty and there is nothing on it.

On the stone wall behind this altar,

It seems to be engraved with a six-pointed star symbolizing Israel, with a thick layer of dust on it, which is not very real.

The discovery of this altar once again excited many Israelites in the valley.

Because this shows that this cave is not only a very hidden treasure place, but also a small religious place where the Israelites hidden here can pray.

Seeing these contents on the video surveillance screen, everyone was shocked.

The same is true for Ye Tian, ​​while looking at the video surveillance screen, he analyzed the situation here to the people around him.

"Judging from the situation of this cave, the people who hid those treasures in this cave are very likely to be some children around ten years old, and the maximum is no more than fifteen years old, or dwarfs.

Only the children's small and soft bodies can freely enter and exit the gap outside the cave without getting stuck. Those children should be hung from the cliff by adults and then enter the cave.

It is not even ruled out that the ancestors of the Israelites living here would choose a few young and flexible boys and let them live in the cave in turn in every turbulent age!

In this way, there is no need to go up and down this steep and abnormal cliff frequently, and it is relatively safer! Whenever there is danger, they can quickly transfer the tribe's property to this cave.

Because of this, there will be an altar in this cave, and in the next exploration, maybe you will find things like stone beds, and maybe some other utensils in life! "

Listening to Ye Tian's analysis, everyone at the scene nodded their heads one after another.

And the following exploration actions also confirmed his judgment.

After the two archaeologists explored the area at the entrance of the cave, they carefully walked into the cave and continued their exploration.

After walking inward for only about three meters, they found a platform on the ground that resembled a stone bed, about 30 centimeters above the ground, and about 1.56 meters long.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the valley turned their heads to look at Ye Tian, ​​and everyone's eyes were filled with admiration.

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Soon, the time has come to the afternoon,

After several hours of exploration, the situation in the cave on the cliff has basically been clarified.

As for this treasure hidden in the cave, the preliminary exploration work has also been completed, and it is time to excavate and clean it up.

Now everyone has confirmed that this unknown treasure is not the legendary Solomon's treasure.

One of the most holy relics of Christianity and Judaism, the Ark of the Covenant, is also not in this cave.

In other words, this unknown treasure belongs to the Daring One Exploration Company and the Sudanese government, and they are jointly owned by the two parties, each accounting for 50% of the equity.

The half of the treasure owned by Intrepid Quests has been sold to the Israeli government.

The next treasure excavation and cleaning work will be completed by a joint exploration team composed of the Israeli government and the Sudanese government, which has nothing to do with the brave exploration company.

All Ye Tian has to do now is to stay on the sidelines and watch the show, and then pick out a few top-notch antiques and art collections from the treasures that have been cleaned up.

Of course, his harvest is far more than that.

The proceeds from the sale of half of the treasures will soon be transferred to the bank account of the Fearless Exploration Company, which is definitely a crazy and shocking wealth.

The two young archaeologists who had entered the cave to explore had already descended from the cliff and returned to the bottom of the valley.

Along with them, there was also a five-branch gold candlestick and a bronze statue.

They were replaced by a six-person exploration team.

Three people each from Israel and Sudan have entered the cave in the middle of the cliff and started excavating and clearing the treasure.

At this time, Ye Tian and the others were sitting under a huge parasol, admiring the five-branch gold candlestick and a bronze head in front of them.

This bronze head is engraved with the national leader of the Israelites, Moses.

The five-branch gold candlestick is one of the symbols of the Jews.

Compared with King Solomon's seven-branched gold candlestick found in Tomar and Herod's seven-branched bronze candlestick found in Jerusalem, this five-branched gold candlestick is relatively rough.

Both the manufacturing method and the engraving process are far inferior to those two seven-branched candlesticks.

Its status in Jewish history is even more incomparable with those two seven-branch candlesticks. It can even be said to be unknown. No one knows the existence of this five-branch gold candlestick!

However, this does not prevent it from becoming a priceless top antique cultural relic.

The same is true for the bronze head of Moses. Although the carving is relatively rough and has some ancient Egyptian civilization colors, it is also a priceless top-level antique cultural relic, which is rare!

Seeing these two nearly well-preserved top-level antique cultural relics, all the Israelis at the scene were very excited, and they all stared at these two treasures, not even willing to blink their eyelids.

But in the eyes of the Sudanese, these two top-level antique cultural relics radiating bright light mean a huge amount of wealth, and the eyeballs of each of them are almost red when they look at it.

As for Ye Tian, ​​he looked at these two top-level antique cultural relics more with appreciation.

Of course, half of the value attached to these two top-level antique cultural relics belongs to him, and even less!

While talking, some things were transported out of the cave on the cliff, packed in a metal box, and slowly lowered to the bottom of the valley.

Several exploration team members waiting at the bottom of the valley immediately stepped forward to take the metal box, and transported it to Ye Tian and the others immediately.

Immediately afterwards, several representatives of the Israeli and Sudanese governments stepped forward to check the appearance of the metal box and the seal affixed to it.

After confirming that there is no problem, the box was opened.

What appeared in front of everyone were four or five pieces of gold products, radiating bright rays of light, a small stone sculpture, and a bronze statue.

What's interesting is that the bronze statue and the small stone sculpture, the characters carved respectively, happened to be a pair of opponents!

The bronze statue is carved with David, but this David statue from the ancestors of the Israelites is very different from the David statue created by Michelangelo.

That small stone sculpture is the head of a person.

The figure carved is the legendary chief warrior of the Philistines, the giant Goliath!

According to the "Bible", Goliath was the chief warrior of the Philistines, leading troops to attack the Israeli army. He possessed infinite power, and everyone who saw him would shy away and dare not fight.

But the one who defeated Goliath in the end was the shepherd boy David.

He hit Goliath on the head with a slingshot and severed his head. David later unified the whole of Israel and became the famous King David.

What this head portrait of Goliath shows is exactly what Goliath was like when his head was cut off, with a painful expression, despair and fear in his eyes, full of tragedy!

Ye Tian's eyes lit up when he saw these two ancient and rival statues.

He asked people to bring the two statues in front of him and admire them carefully.

Several other archaeologists who were also here were also admiring these two statues, as well as several other gold artifacts, and everyone was very excited.

Pretending to appreciate it seriously for a moment, Ye Tian smiled and said:

"It is very rare and very lucky to find the statues of David and Goliath in the same place and in the same treasure.

According to my identification, the two statues come from different eras. The head of Goliath was carved between 50 and 100 BC, and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

This bronze statue of David was cast around the second century AD, a little later, and it has a certain North African cultural color, which is also very rare!

Although they come from different eras, it is very interesting to put them together. I want to keep these two statues and display them in my private museum in Beijing.

When these two statues are displayed together, it is easy to think of the story between David and Goliath, which is much more interesting than the introduction of tour guides and commentators! "

Hearing his words, the faces of all the Israelis at the scene changed, and a look of reluctance flashed in everyone's eyes.

Of course they knew the value of these two statues, knowing that they were valuable top-notch antiques, so they were willing to let Ye Tian take them away.

However, considering the agreement reached between the two parties, they can't say anything!

The excavation and removal of the treasure continues.

A large number of gold and silver treasures hidden in that cave, as well as many valuable top-level antique cultural relics, were carried out of the cave one by one, and hoisted to the bottom of the valley one by one!

All the things from this treasure, no matter gold and silver treasures or antique cultural relics, will be passed in front of Ye Tian.

He will conduct the appraisal immediately, give an authoritative appraisal conclusion and approximate valuation, and then ask his subordinates to record these things and take videos to keep the data!

During this period, he selected several very good top-level antique cultural relics for his own collection, and later entrusted the Israelis to transport them to Tel Aviv.

When these antique relics arrive in Tel Aviv, Ye Tian will arrange for his men to receive them in Tel Aviv, and then transfer these top-level antique relics to Beijing!

Of course, Ye Tian still followed the principle he always insisted on.

He didn't want any antiques closely related to religion and death, but left them to the Israelis and the Sudanese government!

As for David and Goliath, that's another matter!

Although the stories between them are recorded in the "Bible", they are all historical figures, not religious figures. It is not against the principle to collect their statues!

Seeing these top antique cultural relics he picked out, both Israelis and Sudanese feel distressed!

However, they all remained silent and did not raise any objections!