There are also ornaments on the head and abdomen, engraved with figures of the head and the birds and beasts, as well as daily necessities of ancient Indians, including pots, cups, bowls, pots, masks, G.o.ds, fish fishing and so on.These devices are made of gold foil and gold wire. The styles are rich and colorful, the craftsmanship is superb, the craftsmanship is exquisite, and the pieces are very valuable works of art.
Chen Rui put these gold devices into the pregnant sea pearl s.p.a.ce and continued to search.
An hour later, Chen Rui found a pair of gold armor in the mud at the bottom of the lake. The gold armor consisted of three gold parts, a golden helmet, a gold armor, and a gold leg. The most impressive thing was that Chen Rui felt inside incredibly wrapped gold armor there are human skeletons.
In order to search for the treasures of the ancient Inca Empire in the Golden Lake, Chen Rui has made a lot of effort. On the Internet, and the local library has reviewed a large number of doc.u.ments about the ancient Inca Empire, the Golden City, and the Golden Lake.
At this time, a pair of gold armor in front of Chen Rui wrapped of human skeletons, and soon let Chen Rui think of the legendary "Golden Man" mentioned in the literature of the Golden Lake.
The so-called "Golden Man" is a Man wearing a golden helmet, wearing a gold armor and tying gold leggings to his legs. He is sent to the heart of the lake by the tribes and is willing to sink the bottom of the lake as a sacrifice for G.o.d.
The most admired of the Inca culture is water. The Inca ancestor G.o.ddess Bachu came out of the lake. The Inca people believed that the G.o.ds lived in the lake, where life began and ended.
The story of the "Golden Man" still preserved by the ancient Indians.
Regarding the "Golden Man", it has always been a legend and a story about the "Golden Man" of the Inca.
But at this time, Chen Rui saw a human skeleton wrapped in gold armor, which undoubtedly confirmed the authenticity of this legend.
Once published, it will cause a shock to the world.
And the gold armor will also become a rare treasure.
In fact, the surprise for Chen Rui is still behind.
After a few months of searching at the bottom of the lake, Chen Rui found the gold products, gems, jade, pottery, stoneware, treasures of the ancient Inca Empire, beyond the imagination of Chen Rui.
Especially the gold products, more than a two thousand pieces, from the utensils of religious ceremonies, to the decorations of the head and chest and the abdomen, to the daily necessities, the style is rich and varied, each piece is fine, the craftsmanship is exquisite, with a simple and elegant style and strong pieces of religious color.
Through the previous information related to the ancient Inca empire, Chen Rui learned that the Incas in Guatavita Lake live a lot of senior craftsmen who made the gold. The artisans living on the sh.o.r.es of the "Golden Lake" were the worker of the Inca Empire.
Gold mines are abundant near Lake Guatavita.
It is not difficult to understand why there are so many gold products.
There are several pieces more expensive than the gold armor found before.
The gold boat, is gold bamboo pole nearly 20 centimeters long, stood with 11 golden glittering gold figures, and the golden jewels of different postures were exquisite and the craftsmanship was very exquisite.
The gold ship has one in the Columbia Gold Museum and is known as the treasure of the town hall, an invaluable treasure.
According to legend, the Indian leader painted gold powder all over the body and took all kinds of golden sacrifices to ride the "golden ship" to the sacred Lake Guatavita to worship the G.o.ds.
This gives the intangible value of the gold ship, which is called a rare treasure, and called the national treasure is not an exaggeration.
In addition, there is a statue of Inca.
This is the only true gold statue of Inca in Colombia. It is stood at 3-meter height and weight more than one tons.
The value of this statue can compare with a city.
A few days later, Chen Rui was full harvested the Golden Lake, confirm there are no gold product was left and then he left.
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Next, Chen Rui considers how to deal with this treasure.
Of course, before that, it was necessary to consider Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, etc. in the 11th to 16th centuries was the recourse of the countries of the Inca Empire to take back the treasures.
"Recourse" is also a problem that every treasure hunter must face.
For example, the Spanish government and government pursued the "Mercedes".
China recourse the Yuanming Yuan National Treasure and the South China Shipwreck.
Egyptian government recourse to ancient Egyptian artifacts.
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There are very few cases in which success can be pursued.
At the beginning of 2009, Christie disregard of the Chinese opposition to auction a Yuanming Yuan animal head incident reflected the difficulty of retrieving lost cultural relics from one aspect.
This is the case. There are two reasons, one of which is that the recourse party is able to provide too little evidence to prove its attribution.
The other reason is that the rules and principles of international law guarantee the interests of the treasure holders in many aspects.
For example, "the law of the location of the object", "the principle of good faith", "the principle of obtaining timeliness", "obtaining the statute of limitations", "the treaty does not go back to the past principles." and so on, the international and national laws and principles are guaranteed to the greatest extent the interests of the treasure holder.
For these two reasons, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, and other countries want to recover from the hands of Chen Rui to the treasures of the ancient Inca Empire is a pipe dream.
Because these countries cannot provide strong evidence that clearly defines their ownership.
Secondly, by eliminating the principle of statute of limitations, holding so-called "historically looted" cultural relics can obtain property ownership of these cultural relics or waive their possible return or compensation obligations in accordance with their national laws.
For example, most of the so-called "historically plundered" cultural relics in China have been freely transferred for more than a hundred years, and have long exceeded the limitation period for exercising the right to request.
In addition, the treaty does not go back to past principles and sets a time limit for retrieving cultural relics.
Also in China, because of this principle, it means that China abandoned the right of recourse for cultural relics that flowed out of war and smuggling before 1923 (China joined the 1995 Convention in 1997).
At the beginning of the 16th century, the Spanish colonists, driven by the golden dream, had carried out a large-scale expedition, searched for gilded people everywhere, set off a crazy tomb heat, and robbed countless gold, precious stones, and jade.
In the Golden City and Golden Lake, there were Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, British and German.
It can be said that the ancient Inca gold products, pottery, stoneware, and other artworks are like Chinese art being robbed by robbers and lost to the whole world.
Most of the artworks are outside the timeliness of the relevant laws and principles in various countries.
In addition, there is a lack of strong evidence in South American countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia.
International and national laws and principles will protect Chen Rui ownership of the treasure.