Chapter 730 The relics of a once glorious civilization!
Chapter 730: Relics of a once glorious civilization!
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Unfortunately, perhaps because it is too old, or because the native Indians living there have not encountered enemies for hundreds of years, this magnificent city wall has long been covered with various vines, making it look very desolate.
But the structure of the entire city wall was not damaged!
"It seems that some amazing underground ruins have been discovered this time!"
Looking at the huge city in front of him, Liu Dong's heart was already trembling with excitement.
For anyone who likes collecting, this kind of civilization relic is the best treasure.
At the moment, Liu Dong didn't care about anything else and hurriedly chased after the back of the Indians in front of him.
Between the entrance of the cave where Liu Dong appeared and the gate of the ancient city is a bluestone path about 2,000 meters long and 10 meters wide! On both sides of the bluestone path are many majestic stone statues of sword-wielding warriors about 3 meters high!
Perhaps because they have existed for such a long time, these stone statues of sword-wielding warriors and the bluestone paths have been somewhat mottled by the erosion of the surrounding plants.
But what surprised Liu Dong was that he didn't encounter a single guard along the way?
But think about it, if there are no enemies for hundreds of years, no matter how vigilant a nation is, it will relax.
But what surprised Liu Dong was that when he approached the city, he actually found corn stalks nearby, and they must have been cut down not long ago. It is obvious that there is still very primitive agriculture here!
"A nation that can build such a magnificent ancient city must have a splendid civilization!" Liu Dong thought to himself as he looked at the six statues with human faces and tiger bodies on both sides of the city gate, more than five meters high and completely gilded.
"It's just that such a glorious civilization has no primitive people anymore!"
After shaking his head, his eyes noticed the two huge stone tablets erected on both sides of the city gate. However, no matter how hard he tried, he could not understand what the strange words on the stone tablets meant.
"But this should be a hieroglyphic character originating from the Mayan civilization in America!" This was Liu Dong's only judgment.
Regarding issues that he cannot understand, Liu Dong never dwells on them and wastes time.
So he quickly followed those primitive people into the city.
After entering the city, very ordinary stone buildings began to appear on both sides of the Bluestone Avenue. These buildings were painted with many abstract decorations, but among them Liu Dong discovered Quetzalcoatl, a very famous god in American Indian civilization!
Quetzalcoatl is a god commonly believed in Mesoamerican civilizations. It is generally depicted as a snake covered with feathers. It was first seen in the Olmec civilization. It was later called Quetzalcuato by the Aztecs.
, the Mayans called it Kukulkan.
According to legend, Quetzalcoatl dominates the morning star, invented books, legislation, and brought corn to mankind.
Quetzalcoatl also represents death and rebirth and is the protector of priests.
Quetzalcoatl's status in Mayan culture can be observed from many aspects. In the classical period, the scepter held by the Mayan "real person" had an exquisite small shape at one end, with one leg of the villain in the middle turning into a snake body, and a snake head at the other end.
.In the post-classical period, there have been many deformations, but the basic form has completely changed, becoming the image of Quetzalcoatl with a feather fan shape on the upper part, a snake body in the middle and a snake head at the bottom.
"Is this a city built by the ancient Mayans?" Liu Dong couldn't help but secretly guessed.
But after thinking about it, he quickly overturned his conclusion, because the Mayan civilization appeared in Central America, and this is Arizona in the United States. Although it is very close to Central America, the Mayan civilization has never been found.
traces of the past.
After shaking his head and temporarily putting aside these confusions, Liu Dong chose to continue walking inside, believing that he could find the answer he wanted in the center of the city.
The further you go, the more primitive people you see around you. However, most of them are old people and children, and there are almost no adults!
But in a civilization, adults are the main body. So this discovery made Liu Dong feel very strange.
Unable to find an answer for the time being, Liu Dong focused more on the surrounding buildings.
As we get closer to the city center, the form of the buildings also changes significantly. Double-story stone buildings and even three-story stone buildings appear in height, and these higher-rise buildings often have exquisite reliefs.
In addition, Liu Dong also discovered their different functions from these buildings.
What is certain is that there should be taverns, shops, brothels, public baths and other places among them. Of course, these were all guessed by Liu Dong from the reliefs and some hieroglyphs. I don’t know whether they were Liu Dong specifically.
"However, looking at the size of this city, it can accommodate 200,000 people to settle down. But why are there only this few people now and almost most of the buildings are abandoned? Is it the result of the degradation of civilization?"
In the absence of a better explanation, this is the most realistic conclusion.
At this time, Liu Dong followed these people and came to a square. The square was as big as a football field and a half. There was a place surrounded by stone steps in the center of the square. It should be a fountain-like place. However, although there was still water in it, it had already been
No more spraying!
Around this pool, there are many round stone statues about two meters high. Most of the stone statues have thick eyebrows, big eyes, broad faces, and obvious Indian characteristics, but they are slightly different in details and have different movements.
However, after passing through this exquisite square, there is another city wall about 1,200 meters high, 6 meters high and 5 meters wide. There are many intricate and gorgeous reliefs on the city wall, most of which are images of Indians wearing feathers.
Some are human nature, and some have the characteristics of various beasts, but no matter what kind of reliefs they are, they are all lifelike, and we can see the extraordinary features of this civilization.
After crossing this city wall, you should have entered the inner city of this city.
The buildings in the inner city have obviously become more ornate, with basically no house below two floors.
It can be seen that the part outside the city wall should belong to the residential area of civilians, and what Liu Dong sees now should belong to the residential area of nobles and royal families.
Moreover, in this part of the aristocratic residential area, the house is no longer a single building, but is divided into a complex of houses with different functions such as living, entertaining, and sightseeing. It is the same as the courtyard house in ancient China, but the structure
It’s just different from the architectural form!
In addition, Liu Dong also discovered that there are obviously more entertainment venues here than outside, and there are many buildings similar to parks and squares. Of course, now they have become a mess because they have not been taken care of for a long time.
"This is a tribe that has lost its own civilization in the long history!" Along the way, Liu Dong came to his own conclusion.
Most of this city, which shows its owner's highly developed civilization, has been abandoned, and only a few parts are still inhabited. But it is like primitive people suddenly living in a modern villa. The house is nice, but the inside is really messed up.
The group is terrible.
Letting them live here is a waste of this glorious civilization!
"It's so magnificent. It's hard to imagine which nation in North America could build such a great miracle!" When Liu Dong came to the city center, he looked at everything in front of him and couldn't help but exclaimed.
Compared with the exquisite buildings he just walked over and saw, the buildings in the center of the city in front of him are the essence. Without these, the beauty of the entire city would be lost by at least 70%!
The reason why I say this is because the scene in front of me is so magnificent!
I saw that surrounded by a long river about 15 meters wide, like a moat, a huge stone platform 800 meters long, 500 meters wide, and about 30 meters high, with an obsidian structure rising from the ground, towering like a cloud.
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Liu Dong even discovered that the stone platform was not made of obsidian, but a polished original stone platform. Before there was this obsidian platform, this place should have been a low mountain made of obsidian!
It was only later that the civilization that built this city spent an unimaginable cost to process it into the huge rectangular stone platform it is now.
Moreover, a magnificent building was built on this huge stone platform that would shock the world.
Looking up at this huge obsidian platform and the exquisite yet majestic buildings on it, Liu Dong felt like he was seeing the legendary Heavenly Palace in China.
In terms of exquisiteness alone, perhaps only the Forbidden City, where ancient Chinese emperors lived, can compare with this place.
After sighing for a long time, Liu Dong remembered that he wanted to go up.
Soon, Liu Dong crossed the moat through a 30-meter-wide straight obsidian bridge with exquisite stone carvings on the railings on both sides, and then walked up a 120-story obsidian staircase that was also 30 meters wide and climbed to the ground floor.
Top of stage.
At the angle between the river side of the platform and the obsidian steps stand two huge tiger-shaped beasts that are 6 meters high and 12 meters long, because they have two more legs than ordinary tigers, and the corners of their mouths are on both sides.
Two tusks like saber-toothed tigers stuck out!
And these two tiger-shaped beasts guarded the upward passage to the left and right like door gods. Their huge eyes seemed to be watching every worshiper who walked up the stone platform. They were extremely powerful and gave people unimaginable pressure, not even...
Consciously want to surrender!
However, although Liu Dong admired the beauty of these two tiger-shaped beasts, he had no other emotions at all.
On the edge of the stone platform along the river on both sides of these two tiger-shaped beasts, every 10 meters apart, there is a round sculpture head of a beast with a wide mouth. The image of the beast is similar to that of one of the nine sons of the dragon in Chinese mythology.
They are similar to Bixi, except that the eyes of these strange beasts are much larger than Bixi!
Judging from the shape of these strange beasts and the wide-open mouths, this should be a kind of water outlet. It can be imagined that when this city was first built, the water conservancy facilities built raised the water in the distant river to a high platform.
Then it branches out and passes through hundreds of exotic water outlets, dropping thirty meters into the moat. What a spectacular sight it is.
It is a pity that after a long period of erosion, these stone water outlets are still there, but the design of water lifting has decayed! (To be continued)