There is a zigzag-shaped pit about fifty meters in diameter and about twenty meters deep in the center.
The excavators pushed the carts through the back-shaped ramp, pushed the excavated soil out of the deep pit, and then transported the soil out of the shed.
Leon followed Ada and Sears to the edge of the pit and looked down, and found that in the center of the pit were two rows and three columns of stone formations, consisting of a total of six giant stone pillars.
More than thirty Oxford students carrying satchels or backpacks, holding cameras, lighting equipment and other tools, stood at the edge of the stone circle.
Leon turned his head and looked to the right, and saw workers pushing carts walking out of a tunnel one by one.
Tunnel?
Lyon did not expect that Sears' archaeological team actually dug a tunnel that could lead to the bottom.
The three of them went through the ramp to the bottom of the pit and met the waiting group of Oxford students.
As soon as they arrived below, the students immediately "surrounded" the three of them and expressed their excitement one after another.
To be precise, Ada and Sears.
After all, in the eyes of the students, without these two people, they would have never had the chance to discover ruins of this scale.
Lyon was squeezed out of the crowd.
However, Leon doesn't care about this at all. Archeology and history are indeed not his areas of expertise.
Instead, he focused on Ada.
I saw Ada, who was surrounded by the crowd, always keeping a friendly smile and having a great time communicating with the students.
How did she change her face so quickly??
Leon was confused by this.
"Hey, woman." Leon, who couldn't figure it out, shook his head with his hands on his hips.
"Children! Be quiet for a moment!" Sears raised his right hand to silence the interested students for the time being.
After calming down, he continued: "Now that Miss Wang has arrived, it's time for us to lift the veil of this ruins and see its true appearance together!"
"Woohoo!" The students couldn't help cheering.
"Okay! Let's go!"
After Sears finished speaking, he turned and walked towards the tunnel, followed closely by the students.
Ada took off her sunglasses and put them away. After showing her full face, she reminded Leon in a low voice:
"Rookie, cheer up and be alert to what's going on inside."
"Yeah." Leon had given up explaining to Ada the fact that he was not a rookie and just responded softly.
Before he and Ada were about to enter the tunnel, Leon took out the agent's exclusive mobile phone and reported the latest situation to his superiors.
A lighting lamp is installed every three meters at the top of the tunnel, making the inside of the tunnel less dark. It took about seven or eight minutes to get out of the tunnel.
After walking out, Lyon felt suddenly enlightened.
The underground area at the end of the tunnel has been dug very wide by workers, and the strong lighting equipment built around it makes it look like daylight.
What is covered in the soil in front is a city wall made of huge square stones.
Lyon roughly estimates that the height of the city wall is at least 20 meters high.
Directly opposite the tunnel exit is a city gate about five meters high and seven meters wide.
I saw more than a dozen workers doing the final cleaning work in front of the city gate, transporting the excess soil outside immediately.
Leon once again took out his mobile phone to take pictures, and then uploaded the photos.
Immediately afterwards, he and Ada followed Sears' team to the city gate.
"Hoo~." The faint sound of wind came into my ears.
The closer Lyon gets to the city gate, the more he can feel the air flowing from the cracks in the door.
This shows that the side of the city wall and city gate is not a closed space.
However, for safety reasons, everyone still wore professional masks and took corresponding protective measures.
Everything is ready.
Sears asked the students to assist the workers present, and together they opened the city gate made of fir wood.
"Hoo——!" The moment the city gate opened, it caused a violent flow of air.
Looking forward, everyone found that there was a cave on the other side of the city gate.
It is a relatively well-preserved ancient city!
The city is completely located in caves under the hills, and they can use natural light sources for archaeological work without installing strong lighting equipment.
The sunlight passes through the small opening at the top of the cave, or the area that they cannot observe, and shines into the entire city in beams of light.
"Oh my god...I didn't expect...I didn't expect it at all."
Sears stepped through the city gate and came to the street, sighing with a trembling voice:
"This city is clearly at our feet, but it cannot be directly observed in any way. However, only after discovering the stone formation can we continue to discover this city that seems to have been deliberately hidden...
What has it experienced in history that made ancient people do this?"
"Professor." At this time, Ada walked to Sears and smiled softly: "You can't guess."
"Miss Wang is right." Sears, who came back to his senses, turned to remind the students loudly:
"Children! Take photos and record them later. Don't touch the items here at will. Remember not to act alone. Safety first!"
"Got it, Professor!"
"Professor! Let's start!"
The students made no secret of their excitement and couldn't wait to go deep into the city.
Archeology is indeed a very boring subject in ordinary times, but if ruins can be discovered, especially in such a large city, it will definitely satisfy human beings' desire for exploration and curiosity.
Reminder after speaking.
The workers continued to clean up near the city gate, while Sears led everyone on the main road in the city, heading towards the city center and the end.
Ada and Sears walked at the front, the students walked in twos and threes in the center, and Leon walked at the end of the team to stay alert.
"Click!" In an instant, the city was filled with an endless stream of shutter sounds.
The students took photos and videos of everything along the way.
The urban buildings have obvious Middle Eastern style domes. The main materials of the buildings are stone and very rot-resistant fir.
The deeper you go, the more things you can discover.
Skeletons, a lot of skeletons filled the streets.
Through the different styles of leather armor and weapons, and the degree of man-made destruction of the city, it is not difficult to guess that a tragic war seemed to have occurred here.
This is normal.
Everyone in the archaeological team has long been accustomed to it. It would be abnormal if there were no human skeletons in such a large ruins.
Therefore, there will never be a scene in the movie where people will shout "Ah! Ah!" when they see a skeleton.
However, when they continued to move forward for a while, they discovered an extremely strange phenomenon.
Some of the skeletons were wearing heavy armor from ancient Greece, and the height of these skeletons that looked like heavy armor from ancient Greece reached a staggering three or four meters.
In addition to these, they also found skeletons that resembled humans, but were definitely not human!
It seems that the war taking place here seems beyond the scope of their understanding.