Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 2701: Mark Antony’s Treasure
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Under everyone's extremely hot and reluctant gaze, Ye Tian took back the Conqueror's Staff and put it into the gold box.
Immediately afterwards, he put the gold box into the backpack behind him. Only in this way did he feel relieved.
Following his movements, a burst of sighs immediately sounded from the scene, and every voice was filled with envy and even jealousy.
Especially the Italians at the scene were in agony and almost crazy with jealousy. Everyone's eyes were so red that they were about to bleed.
Next, Ye Tian discussed with everyone the turbulent ancient Roman history in BC, speculated on the true nature of that ancient Roman history, and the reason why the Conqueror's Staff was hidden here.
Of course, everyone's discussions and speculations are still at the stage of conjecture, and there is not enough evidence to support it.
But it doesn't matter, they quickly found corresponding evidence in this underground secret room to support this kind of speculation and conjecture that is very different from the existing "History of Rome".
When everyone's emotions calmed down a little, Ye Tian led them deeper into the secret room.
Behind the bronze bust of Caesar and close to the back wall, there are two human sculptures more than one meter high, several large and small boxes, and other things.
As he approached, Ye Tian first observed the situation here to prevent any unexpected situations.
After making sure it was safe, he began to clean a bronze statue in front of him.
With his movements, this ancient Roman sculpture that had been hidden deep underground for more than two thousand years finally revealed its true appearance.
The figure carved in this bronze statue is Gaius Marius, who built this underground chamber.
Due to the long-term isolation of this underground chamber from the outside world, the bronze statue of Marius is almost perfectly preserved, with only a thin layer of green patina on the surface.
In addition, the full name of Marius is also engraved on the base of this bronze statue, as well as the year when the statue was created, and the name of the sculptor, who was a famous sculptor in ancient Rome.
Compared with the first three-headed alliance statues discovered previously, this bronze statue of Marius was created much earlier, but its sculpture style is closer to ancient Roman sculpture art than to ancient Greek sculpture.
There is no doubt that this bronze sculpture of Marius is another priceless top antique cultural relic. It is also one of the oldest and best-preserved ancient Roman sculptures discovered so far.
After carefully admiring the bronze sculpture of Marius for a while, Ye Tian walked to another sculpture next to him and began to clean the dust and moss on that sculpture.
It is also a bronze human sculpture, only a little smaller than Marius's sculpture. It is also almost perfectly preserved, and the carving skills are also very high. It is obviously the work of a master.
The figure engraved on it is none other than Lucius Sulla, Marius' life-and-death enemy and the first lifelong dictator in the history of ancient Rome.
He pioneered the Roman military dictatorship and laid the foundation for the establishment of the Roman Empire. He is an extremely important figure in Roman history and Western history, with a very high status!
The appearance of the bronze statue of Sulla was somewhat unexpected, making everyone feel a little surprised.
You must know that Sulla was not only Marius' life-and-death enemy, but he also almost killed Caesar. After Marius died of illness, it was under his pressure that Caesar had to flee Rome in a hurry.
This is an underground chamber built by Marius, and later belonged to Caesar and his cronies. No one expected to see a statue of Sulla here.
While everyone was surprised, they also cheered for this discovery.
Everyone here knows that this bronze statue of Sulla is another priceless top antique cultural relic. Its discovery will definitely cause a sensation.
If analyzed from the perspective of historical status, this bronze statue of Sulla is even more valuable than the bronze statue of Marius!
After cleaning and inspecting the two bronze statues, everyone turned their attention to the ancient boxes. Everyone was guessing what was in those boxes.
Soon, the first box was opened by Ye Tian. To be more precise, it should be said that it collapsed.
The moment Ye Tian started to clean up the dust and moss attached to the box, the ancient wooden box suddenly collapsed and fell apart.
The things packed in the box were scattered out and appeared in front of everyone's eyes, making everyone dizzy.
That is a box full of ancient Roman gold and silver coins, and most of them are extremely rare antique coins. Each one is worth a lot of money and is extremely rare to see on the market, but there is a box full of them hidden here.
In addition to a large number of ancient Roman gold and silver coins, this wooden box also contains some gold utensils, such as wine glasses, tableware, etc., which are also valuable.
The appearance of this box of ancient Roman gold and silver coins and other gold vessels was expected by everyone, so everyone was not too surprised!
How could the ancient Roman nobleman or general who hid Caesar's sword and the Conqueror's staff and other antique relics here not make use of this place and hide a large amount of gold and silver treasures? This is human nature.
Since everyone has seen too many priceless antiques and experienced too many huge surprises before, facing this box of gold and silver treasures of astonishing value, everyone can take it calmly!
Next, Ye Tian and the others walked to the next box, which was slightly smaller.
Similar to the previous situation, when Ye Tian was about to clean up the wooden box, the fragile wooden box that had existed for more than two thousand years also collapsed in an instant.
What then appeared in front of everyone's eyes were seven or eight marble slabs of various sizes and specifications engraved with ancient Latin inscriptions and various exquisite patterns.
In addition, this wooden box should have originally stored some parchment rolls and the like.
It’s just that because of their age, those sheepskin rolls had long since rotted and been completely decomposed by microorganisms, leaving only patches of black marks on the inner walls of the wooden boxes and the stone slabs, which looked like patches!
On the stone slabs that were lucky enough to be preserved, Ye Tian saw at a glance the Roman eagle emblem symbolizing the Roman army, and also saw the names of Caesar and Mark Antony.
As for other ancient Latin texts, he did not know them, so he naturally had no way of knowing the meanings of those words.
The Bishop of Kent and several other people who were proficient in ancient Latin who were also at the scene trembled with excitement the moment they saw the stone slabs, and almost threw themselves at the ancient stone slabs. .
Seeing this scene, anyone who is not an idiot will instantly understand how valuable those few stone slabs are. They are the history books of ancient Rome!
By studying the ancient Latin inscribed on those stone slabs, Bishop Kent and the others quickly concluded that this treasure was buried by Mark Antony!
In other words, after Caesar obtained the building that once stood above this secret chamber from Marius, he gave it to his henchman, Mark Antony!
After Caesar was assassinated in the Senate, Mark Antony used some means to get all of Caesar's relics, including the Conqueror's Staff and Sword, into his own hands.
After he escaped from the Senate and escaped from Rome disguised as a slave, he hid all of Caesar's relics, the statues of the first three allies, and a large amount of gold and silver treasures in this underground secret room. !
To be on the safe side, and to avoid arousing suspicion from others, especially to avoid arousing suspicion from Octavian!
After confirming that Rome was safe, Mark Antony returned to Rome again. As soon as he returned, he completely sealed the underground chamber and the secret passage above for safety.
And he also left behind several stone tablets, which recorded this **** history. At the same time, he also left behind a lot of historical documents from that period, namely those completely rotten parchments!
When doing all this, how did Mark Antony know that his letter was more than two thousand years old!
It wasn’t until today that this underground secret room was discovered by Ye Tian and the others, and the immeasurable value of Caesar’s relics and other antiques in the secret room were finally revealed to the light of day!
As Bishop Kent and others translated the ancient Latin texts on the stone tablets, the answer to the mystery that had been puzzling everyone was finally solved!
This amazing treasure that has been buried deep in the ground for more than two thousand years has an official name, and that is the 'Treasure of Mark Antony!' ’