Chapter 474 Bloody Lion's Den

The Middle East Pavilion on the second floor is next to the European Pavilion. The Middle East Pavilions on the first floor from No. 6 to 10 exhibit Asian-Syrian civilizations, while the No. 52 exhibition hall on the second floor mainly displays Central Asia and West Asia, which belong to ancient Iran. civilization.

The Oxys Treasure is the general name of a group of Persian metal products unearthed in the Tahtikuwad region of Tajikistan. Most of them are classified as produced from the 5th to the 4th century BC. It is the most important extant Achaemenid dynasty. Most of the gold and silver wares and treasures are kept in the British Museum.

  Like the stone sculptures of the Parthenon, Tajikistan also hopes that the British Museum will return the Oxus treasure and take all means to retrieve the treasure if necessary.

The entrance of the   Assyrian Hall is a winged statue of a human head and a bull-body. They were originally the patron saint of Assyria. During the removal process, the British archaeological team was blocked by guerrillas. Now bullet holes can be found in the sculpture.

  Behind the two stone statues is the row of stone sculptures on the wall of Nineveh’s palace, engraved with reliefs of royal deeds such as hunting and warfare. It is the only place in the British Museum where you can see so many and so well-preserved series of stone sculptures.

  The relief of Assyria is equivalent to the sculpture in Greece. Assyrian kings are bloodthirsty and slaying. They have a strong desire to conquer and kill. Their cruel killings in the war are appalling. After the Assyrian king Arthur Banipal attacked the kingdom of Yilan, he once made a relief sculpture: King Yilan's head was hung from a tree, and he stood proudly in front of his head, with corpses behind him like a mountain.

  The size of the merits of the Assyrian soldiers is based on the number of the enemy’s heads, so most of the prisoners of war were beheaded. The experience of the defeated nobles was even more tragic. Some of them were cut off their ears and noses, some were cut off their hands and feet, some were divided by five horses, some were skinned and fleshed, and some were tied and stabbed on a picket to slowly die. , They even show children the scene of stripping prisoners of war alive, and after three thousand years of time and space, they can still smell the strong smell of blood.

  In the nineteenth century, because of unplanned and random discovery, although the British Museum added a lot of diluted treasures, it destroyed a historic city.

The Oxus treasure displayed in Hall 52 belongs to the first dynasty of Persia, the Achaemenid dynasty. Among them is a model of a chariot pulled by four golden horse chariots, which is one of the treasures of the British Museum. , It was hundreds of years earlier than Qin Shihuang’s bronze horse-drawn carriage.

  The Huxuan dancer girls who appeared in Chang'an City of the Tang Empire were white people, but they were not from Western Europe, but Sogdians who came to Central Asia with the migration of the population.

  The Sogdians have a very close relationship with the Persian Empire. The Persians are actually not a nation, but a general term referring to the Persian-speaking West Asia and Central Asia generations.

The Persians believed that the Aryans migrated along the grasslands of South Russia and Central Asia to Iran around 2000 BC. Cyrus II unified the ancient Persian tribes and established the Persian Empire, and then began to develop in the direction of the East and West. In the great empire that spanned Asia and Africa, China was still in the Spring and Autumn Period when many countries were growing, and its strength was not as strong as Persia. At that time, the Persians of Western Iran conquered the Sogdians of Eastern Iran.

  The Persians are good at wielding sticks, while the Sogdians have used their commercial talents to the extreme. From Byzantium in Europe to India in the south, to the Mongolian plateau in the east and the Central Plains, the Sogdians are active.

In the Middle Ages, the second dynasty of Persia, Sassanid Persian, rose, and Persia began to rule centrally. The Sogdians played the role of internal and external intermediaries for a long time. They brought silk from the Central Plains to Persia, and the Northern Dynasties and Sui and Tang Dynasties. The imperial court is in charge of horse administration, diplomacy, and arms trade. The Chinese are proud of the Tang Knife that the Sogdians transported the Uzi steel produced in India to China and then tempered it into iron.

  This kind of steel and later Damascus steel are homologous brothers. Both use Uz steel as the basic raw material, and then two completely different materials are produced according to different technologies.

  When the Second Persian Empire ended and the last Persian prince fled to Chang'an, he gave the vassal states that originally belonged to the Persian Empire to Tang Gaozong Li Zhi. These vassal states were the land of the Sogdians in Eastern Iran.

The nine surnames of Zhaowu are the surnames taken by the Sogdians according to Chinese habits. Due to the fragmented terrain of the river and the entire Central Asia, the Sogdians have never been able to form a strong large-scale group. They are in their respective oasis agricultural areas and business fort Or establish their own city-state on the water source pasture, and because of these attributes, they became a vassal of the latter when Persia was strong.

The Iranians are Aryans, not Arabs. After the rise of the Arab empire, the Arabs and the Tang Empire had territorial disputes due to the issue of dependent countries. At that time, the nine surnames of Zhaowu believed in Zoroastrianism and the religion of the Arab Empire. It's not the same.

Zoroastrianism believes that white is a holy color, and the Arabs do not allow Sogdians to wear white clothes unless they are willing to convert to the Prophet.

  The crusades carried out in the 11th century not only brought disasters to the Middle East, but also brought wars to Europe, which to a certain extent hindered the progress of history.

  There are many reasons for the Crusades, the most important of which is interest and religious reasons. Failed diplomacy has caused conflicts. Until today, the Muggle government still puts all the blame on others and does not look for problems on its own.

The Gulf War and afterwards used various excuses to start wars in the Middle East for oil. Those coalition soldiers are no different from the medieval crusaders. If you don’t disturb the peaceful life of the Middle Easterners, there won’t be so many devastated cities, and neither will There are so many homeless people who are being used by those who are interested.

  Muggle politicians take blood and killing wherever they go. The Renaissance made Europe briefly move from a dark and isolated era to an open world, and now it is beginning to move toward darkness and isolation.

  The pieces of Lewis Island are very similar to wizard chess, except that there are not so many patterns on the back of the wizard chess. Among them, the chess piece representing the bishop has a dragon pattern on the back.

The bishop, who was supposed to bring peace, partnered with the king and launched a raid against the East under the banner of "jihad", but was beaten back by Saladin. Not only did he fail to achieve his goals, but he suffered heavy losses. I do not know how many people died. Exotic.

Lies are everywhere. The king and the bishop colluded together. Later, more and more people obeyed the orders of the church, so the church in turn persecuted the king, just like Harry played the last move on the chessboard under Ron’s instructions, and the bishop will die. The king.

If the Black Death didn’t allow people to see through the true colors of those scammers, they would continue to be deceived, but the magic stick is still much better than the secular regime. If the magic stick is stripped of its hypocritical cloak, no one will believe it, but the government No, people cannot live without them. The Americans can’t count on them. They can’t take care of themselves. Every time there is an earthquake near Huangshi Volcano, the danger is a little closer. Humans cannot control earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and they cannot even predict them. Otherwise, the Indonesian tsunami will not kill more than 200,000 people. .

  It’s like a bomb. Instead of praying to God that it won’t explode, it’s better to find a way to deal with practical problems, leave a way out for yourself, and stop letting people with low IQ become presidents.

   "Some people say that the British Museum is an encyclopedia of civilization, what do you think?" Iris looked around the treasures and said with a smile.

   "I haven't seen civilization, but I have seen a lot of **** wars." Pomona rubbed her arms, she felt goose bumps were all over her. "No wonder Marx would say that capital has been filthy since the moment it was born."

   "Is there not an exhibit that you like?"

   "There is one." Pomona decided not to look at these golden exhibits. "Let's go, I don't want to see it. Oh, I heard that the afternoon tea in the British Museum is very good."

   "Can I know which one it is?" Iris asked.

   "I really hope they have delicious Scones." Pomona smiled and said, "Maybe I am the only fool who just wants to eat in this hall of civilization."

   "I have one." Iris smiled and said, "The only food here is not disappointing."

  (End of this chapter)