Chapter 495 How are you going to get on the fire?!(2/2)
The Mayans were invaded by Spanish colonists in the 16th century. After ruling the area where the Mayans were located, the Spanish colonists burned all the Mayan books that recorded their culture.
The Spanish colonists did this because they saw that the Mayans had their own cultural system, so they wanted to completely destroy this civilization through this method. After all, the New World was only discovered at the end of the 15th century, and the brutal colonial rule
For those who are interested, it is natural to use all means to interrupt the development of civilization in the New World.
However, this kind of "book burning" incident will eventually slip through the net, so during later excavations, four surviving manuscripts recording the Mayan civilization were finally discovered.
To this day, these manuscripts are treasured in the countries of the colonizers and are precious historical and cultural relics.
But obviously, the book in the picture is not any of these four books.
At this time, Xiaomi suddenly said: "I found it. The person who took this picture is a Mayan descendant! He is over 70 years old this year. This is passed down from his family."
"In order to prevent the manuscript from rotting completely, he photographed every page of the manuscript and stored it in his personal space."
"However, these photos have been encrypted by him and have not been made public. Probably because he does not want these things to be made public. He is afraid that they will be robbed after they are made public. In addition, he also hates the colonial countries in Europe very much.
.”
Lin Xiao's brows suddenly raised, but he didn't expect such a gain.
The Mayan civilization was extinct, but the Mayans were not completely extinct, because for the original Spanish colonists, they wanted to achieve better rule over the Mayans by cutting off the culture of the Mayans, so naturally the Mayans also
Descendants of humans survive to this day.
Of course, this kind of hatred that belongs to the annihilation of civilization must not be forgotten by these Mayan descendants.
Therefore, it is natural that some descendants of the Mayans kept the things they inherited secretly and did not disclose them at all.
Lin Xiao immediately couldn't help but guess: "According to this, there are nearly two million Mayan descendants in the world now. Maybe there are just a few of them who are like this person and have passed down some secrets.
Mayan artifacts have been preserved?”
"Well, it's very possible." Xiaomi replied, "I'll search on the Internet again."
Although its computing power is amazing and it can easily scan huge human databases, unfortunately, the premise is that Qiankun One can be completely controlled by it.
At present, it can still only mobilize one percent of the computing power.
And what is involved now is the work that requires the identification of pictures, so it still takes a certain amount of time.
Of course, at least the current search scope has been limited to the more than two million remaining Mayan descendants, so for it, it can be regarded as saving the time that originally needed to search the whole world.
However, Lin Xiao could not help with this matter.
After all, he is not an artificial intelligence.
"However, the pictures of this new manuscript can be given to Professor Ji Yang. Maybe they will be of greater help to his deciphering work?"
Lin Xiao thought this in his mind and then made a decision.
After he saved these pictures into a USB flash drive, he took these things to the Yueshi Division headquarters and found Professor Ji Yang's office.
After entering this office, he was stunned.
This office was not very big to begin with, but now it is filled with all kinds of books, making it almost impossible to find where to go.
As for these books, they are all in foreign languages, and some of them look very old.
Lin Xiao picked up a book from the ground, Good Guy, it was published in 1956 by a publishing house in Spain.
"Huh? Chief Lin, why do you have time to visit this old guy like me?"
At this time, an old man appeared among a pile of books. It was Ji Yang. At this time, he was sitting on a pony, wearing reading glasses, probably studying a book in front of him.
Lin Xiao waved his hand and said helplessly: "Professor Ji, is this how you usually study?"
"Haha, I'm used to it. It was like this when I was young."
Ji Yang smiled, then stood up and said to Lin Xiao: "Come in."
Lin Xiao worked hard to find a few places to stay, and finally came to the desk.
"Tell me, Chief Lin shouldn't be here to chat with me, right?"
Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Professor Ji, you must not get excited about what I am going to show you next."
Ji Yang laughed, took off his reading glasses, took a glasses cloth from the side and wiped it slowly, and said at the same time: "I am an old man, there are not so many things that can make me excited."
"That's good."
Lin Xiao nodded, then took out the USB flash drive and opened the contents on the computer in Ji Yang's office. The first thing was the first photo.
"Professor Ji, look at this thing."
Ji Yang nodded and looked at the picture on the display screen with some curiosity. He wanted to know what it was that made Lin Xiao feel excited.
He didn't believe there was anything in this world that could excite an old man in his eighties.
However, when he took his first look, he was stunned, and then focused his gaze upwards.
Then he quickly took his reading glasses from the side and put them on, then his eyes widened in disbelief and said: "It's not the "Paris Codex", not the "Madrid Codex", nor the "Grolina Codex" and
Codex Driston... This is this... this is a new codex of the ancient Mathematics?!"
"Oh my God, is this a miracle?"
His eyes widened in disbelief.
Then he snatched the mouse from Lin Xiao's hand and looked behind him. Every picture in it was the same as the first picture, recording Mayan characters.
For this master of linguistics, especially a master of research on various ancient characters, this kind of thing is a rare treasure that belongs to him.
"And... what is recorded here is actually... some scientific achievements of the Mayans. This is really true..."
Suddenly, Professor Ji Yang turned to look at Lin Xiao, then grabbed Lin Xiao's arm and said, "Chief Lin! Where did you find this thing?"
Lin Xiao shook off the old man's hand, and then said: "When I was studying in France, I met a person of Mayan descent. Then I asked him about it some time ago, and he came from his grandfather's house.
Turned out."
Ji Yang was stunned, "Descendants of the Mayans?"
"Yeah." Lin Xiao nodded slightly, and then said: "So, I have reason to believe that among the descendants of the Mayans who still exist in the world, it is very likely that one of them may have some genes inherited from the ancient Mayans.
The ancient cultural relics that came down.”
"this……"
After hearing Lin Xiao's words, Ji Yang temporarily forgot to ask about the Maya descendant Lin Xiao met.
Then Ji Yang nodded and said: "Indeed, what you said is not impossible. No matter how hard the Spanish in the 16th century searched, there was no reason to destroy everything."
"When I was doing archeology abroad, I also met and communicated with some Mayan descendants. My in-depth research on Mayan writing was really thanks to those Mayan descendants, and I did find that some of them had preserved in their homes.
I have found some ancient Mayan cultural relics, but I have never seen this kind of classics with written texts before."
"If you say so..."
Thinking of this, Ji Yang's eyes lit up.
Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Well, I think we should try to send people to contact those Maya descendants. Maybe we will get unexpected gains."
"That's right! It just so happens that I also know some friends who are descendants of the Mayans. Maybe I can get their help."
Lin Xiao nodded slightly and said with a smile: "Then I'll trouble you."
"I still have to thank Chief Lin." Ji Yang waved his hand, and then suddenly asked: "By the way, Chief Lin, that Mayan descendant you know..."
"Don't bother that person. He said that he would give this thing to me in the hope that I could help them spread this glorious history of the Mayans in the future. However, their family does not want others to know that their family has inherited it.
Got a classic book.”
Lin Xiao made up the reason he had already prepared.
When Ji Yang heard what Lin Xiao said, he had no doubts and then nodded solemnly.
"I see."
…
In this way, the Moon and Stone Division began to mobilize resources to try to contact those descendants of the Maya.
But after all, they were in their own country, so their actions couldn't be too obvious, and they couldn't send too many people, so the progress was very slow at the beginning.
Of course, after all, there are still millions of Mayan descendants, so they are not in a hurry and just proceed slowly.
As for Professor Ji Yang, he also started to translate the new manuscript. The progress of this process was also relatively slow, but it was still proceeding normally.
In this way, time passed quickly.
Until early May.
…
The Mars landing rocket has been flying in space for more than a month.
On the lunar base, the six team members are still living a vacation-like lunar life.
However, at this time, a piece of news from the Chinese Space Administration broke this short-term peace.
[Our country will implement the manned mission plan on June 1st!]
As soon as this news came out, other countries were stunned.
Chapter completed!