According to the scientific expedition team's plan, they will excavate the palace in the capital of Sumer today. This is the main purpose of this scientific expedition. For this reason, the seminar meeting was held for several consecutive days before finally making a plan and plan.

Because everyone in Wenger's team believes that the top priority of Sumerian civilization is in the palace. If you don't dig it out, you will never be able to understand the history of the Sumerians.

Moreover, the palace is likely to contain all the wealth of the Sumerians when they perished, as well as some research results on metallurgy, agriculture, science and technology.

The approximate address of the palace has been determined, just in the middle of the capital, but because thousands of years have passed, the palace must have been buried deep under the plain. Just digging will have to be a very heavy project, and it is very likely to last for two months, or longer.

Previously, before the excavation work began, Wang Zan and Wen Yong were both doing nothing. They were basically resurrected with a rest of their lives, but at the beginning of the excavation work, they had to tighten their strings. After all, the previous accident was very likely to happen again, so the two followed Ye Huichen, almost reaching the point where they were inseparable.

Wen Yong is mainly responsible for external dangers, while Wang Zan wants to help her with various threats from the underground palace, so from this point of view, Wang Zan is relatively nervous.

Next, the twelve people in Wenger's team were divided into four groups, each of which was three, and then led some people to dig in four directions.

This is a very long and boring and careful work. The four teams must first determine which area of ​​the Sumerian Palace is above them based on the records in historical books, and then open the topsoil layer at their feet until the buildings of the palace below are exposed. When excavating, you must pay attention to not destroying the facilities in the palace.

In this case, the progress speed would be quite slow. I took a break from the early morning at noon. Before dusk, the digging and abuse work of Ye Huichen was only about a few square meters, and the depth was only about a hundred meters, and there was no discovery. Even a brick and tile in the palace was dug out.

If this continues, the construction period of two months will be very difficult. After all, according to historical documents, the area covers an area of ​​70 to 100,000 square meters, and the construction area should be about 40,000 square meters. What does this mean? Take our Forbidden City as an example. The construction area is 150,000 square meters, more than 70 palaces and more than 9,000 houses, which means that the Sumerian palace is equivalent to about one-third of the size.

Don’t underestimate one-third of the Forbidden City. Anyone who has been to the Forbidden City knows how big it is. If you just rely on your feet to visit all the places in the Forbidden City, it is impossible to go without ten or eight days. Someone once laughed at the emperors and concubines who lived in the Forbidden City, you may never have visited all the places you live in in your life.

Therefore, if the Sumerian palaces were converted into this way, the palaces and houses would have to be about one or two thousand rooms added up. This can be imagined how huge the excavation work was.

It was a very boring job, but Wang Zan found that Ye Huichen, Wenger and others in the team were doing it very seriously and cautiously, and there was always a look of excitement and longing on his face. He didn't seem to be doing archaeological excavation, it seemed like he was digging a vault.

One day passed, after dusk, and after dinner in the evening, four engineering vehicles were loaded with high-power searchlights on the excavation site. The scientific expedition team, which had been resting for a while at about seven o'clock, will continue to excavate at night, and will not stop work until midnight, and then will be underway the next day.

Ye Huichen wore a certain safety helmet on his head and was equipped with a strong light flashlight above him. He squatted in the pile of soil and used a small shovel to pull the soil below bit by bit. According to normal expectations, it is very likely that the palace buildings would be excavated about two meters below the soil layer.

"Ye, be careful..." Wenger walked over and reminded Ye Huichen in his ear: "Van delva seems to have dug up the top floor of a palace, but his subordinates didn't pay much attention to it. Some damage occurred. The area here will probably belong to the direction of the main hall, so..."

Ye Huichen nodded and signaled that he knew. Wang Zan, who was following her, didn't hear what the two of them were saying. Instead, he suddenly squatted down and rubbed the dust with his hands, then leaned in front of his nose and smelled it carefully. The other hand was in the soil layer under him, and he kept plucking it with a shovel.

Wang Zan's actions immediately attracted a lot of people's attention. Ye Huichen did not react much, but Wenger and the others frowned a little after seeing it.

"Oh, my god, Ye, what is your companion doing?" Not far away, a woman in her thirties covered her mouth and said in surprise.

Wang Zan's casual behavior seemed quite abrupt to them and was absolutely not allowed. It was just like when you were working hard next to you, a dead child had to make trouble for you. If you were not careful, you might damage all the fruits of your labor.

Ye Huichen smiled awkwardly, nodded apologetically at them, and was about to signal to Wang Zan softly, but he suddenly stood up and clapped his hands, and said to Ye Huichen: "No, this does not belong to the main hall of the Sumerian Palace. This is very likely to be a tomb..."

Ye Huichen was stunned and shook his head and said, "This is impossible. According to the literature and our research, this is the place where King Sumer and ministers discuss matters, which is equivalent to the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City. How could it be a cemetery?"

"You also said that it was inferred based on the literature and records, and you don't know it," Wang Zan said with his hands spread out.

"But what we said is reasonable and well-founded!" Ye Huichen said with a frown.

Wang Zan breathed, took out a cigarette from his body, pulled out a piece of it and stuffed it into his mouth. His action caused a wave of "Oh my God" movement from the people next to him.
Chapter completed!