Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 964 History
In another world, the ruins of Mohenjo-daro are also known as the Hill of Death because of the large number of remains of the dead, and in another world, the destruction of this ancient city is also an unsolved mystery.

The reason why it became an unsolved mystery is mainly because the first excavation of the entire city was in the 20s, and the technical limitations of that era caused many important materials to completely disappear.

To give the simplest example, it was difficult to preserve the organic matter in cultural relics in that era, so they could not test the cause of death of the human remains that were found.

But now the situation has changed, and with the advancement of technology, it has become much easier to solve such problems.To give the simplest example, they are now able to fully preserve the excavated bones and find some clues from them.

Judging from the clues found so far, many people here died of killings, which means that a large-scale war did break out in the city and produced a large number of dead.

On the other hand, the traces left by the floods in the city are also extremely obvious. Many places in the city, especially those near the river, have obvious signs of flooding and flooding.

However, after taking samples from many places in the city, the people of the scientific expedition team can basically confirm one thing, that is, the deaths of a large number of people after the invasion and the occurrence of large-scale floods are not in the same stratum.

Judging from the current archaeological situation, the mass death should have occurred earlier than the flood, but the gap between the two should not exceed ten years.

At the same time, Liang En and the others were basically able to determine that apart from the city, there were a series of supporting facilities around the city, and the most important of which was undoubtedly the water conservancy project along the river bank.

There are various benefits to living near a river, especially for agricultural societies where adequate irrigation and domestic water are essential.

More importantly, there are often fertile alluvial plains in the middle and lower reaches of the river. Whether it is planting or grazing, it is very good land and can support a large number of people.

However, there are also disadvantages. For example, it is easy to encounter floods that wash away a year's harvest near the river, especially for seasonal rivers such as the Indus River.

Therefore, if you want to live in this kind of place for a long time, it is necessary to repair the water conservancy, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to form an important settlement.

This can also be regarded as a commonality of ancient civilizations. For example, the earliest civilizations in the world, whether they are Mesopotamia or ancient Egypt, have a common feature, that is, they have large-scale water conservancy facilities.

It can even be said that the reason why those countries became the earliest civilizations is related to the need to build various water conservancy projects.

This is actually an inevitable thing. If you want to feed a large population, you will need more farmland.And only when the amount of farmland reaches a certain level, it is worth investing in the construction of water conservancy projects.

In addition, if you want to build a large-scale water conservancy project, you will naturally need a large number of people to move in an orderly manner, and this obviously exceeds the upper limit of people that those ancient tribes can mobilize.

Therefore, under this demand, the earliest countries were also established, and then became the beginning of modern civilization, and this ancient Indian civilized city-state in front of us is naturally no exception.

In the long time, the Indus River has been diverted, and the original river course has dried up.This is naturally good news for archaeologists like Liang En, because they can easily check the situation along the river.

Upon inspection, they found that the ancient water conservancy had generally suffered extensive damage, which at first the archaeologists believed to be modern, but later found to be distributed throughout history.

"Mr. Liang, this is our final investigation report." A professor from Peshawar University came over and said to Liang En. a preliminary understanding.

Especially after Liang En proposed the reason for the destruction of the ruins, they deliberately checked some relevant information during the inspection process, and they found something that could support Liang En's theory.

"According to our inspection, the entire water conservancy project has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. But from the traces, the damage is mainly from the flood."

"It's just that after the last flood broke out, the residents of this ruin were not able to rebuild it, and the entire water conservancy project has been destroyed since then, until today."

"According to our inspection, the last damage to this water conservancy project was at the same stage as the large-scale massacres found in the ruins of the city before. From this point of view, your judgment is completely correct."

Liang En believed that the destruction of this site was caused by multiple reasons before, and now it seems that this is indeed the case. Through the existing clues, Liang En quickly outlined the reasons for the destruction of the city:

Back then, the Aryans invaded the east on a large scale. Although they encountered a hard nail in China in the north, they made important achievements in the south and occupied the entire north of India.

Among them, Mohenjodaro, located in India and downstream, stepped up its defenses after learning of the attack from the north, but still failed to resist the crazy attacks of the Aryans.

However, although the Aryans who were the victors burned, killed and looted in the city, the possibility of killing all the people is not very high. More importantly, after the plundering ended, this group of nomads left the city with their spoils , without stopping.

After all, ancient times were not like modern times, and there were not many high-level detection methods, so most looters except human settlements would not spend too much energy on hunting down escaped survivors.

Because if you want to find everyone, the time, energy and resources consumed far exceed what you can get, so even if the ancients robbed, they basically only looked for fixed targets like cities or villages.

And for those ordinary people who don't have much money in scattered activities, as long as they don't happen to run into those attackers, they can basically save their lives, and the possibility of being hacked to death directly is unlikely.

However, this does not mean that they can survive the robbery comfortably, because the various resources they need after leaving their homes cannot be met, and most of them are likely to die on the way to escape.

Therefore, for these people, they left their hometown at most to avoid the sharp edge of the enemy, and it was absolutely impossible for them to leave their hometown easily.

So after the looting ended, the surviving people in this city returned to their hometowns to continue their lives, especially most of the people in the surrounding villages survived, and soon resumed their past lives on this land.

But what I didn't expect was that because all the original organizers were killed in the last attack, the original organization degree no longer existed.

This directly led to their inability to repair the destroyed water conservancy facilities when another flood came, and had to abandon their hometown, which was no longer inhabitable.

In the next thousand years, the ruins were completely destroyed, and then lost in time, and it was not found and excavated until today.

(End of this chapter)