"Are you saying that my live broadcast this time was very popular?" Liang En asked somewhat confusedly. In his impression, although live streaming has a low threshold—anyone with a decent phone can do it—doing it well is quite challenging.
To attract more viewers, one must either have a special skill, an outstanding appearance, or both. In short, you need to show something that people want to see.
Of course, mastering some communication skills is also very important. After all, there are people behind the screen, and making them willing to watch and even pay for you naturally requires some effort in interaction.
Liang En's live broadcast this time could definitely be called a negative example in the live streaming world because he hardly interacted with the audience behind the camera. In these ten days of live streaming, he spoke less than twenty sentences to the viewers.
It wasn't that he was unwilling to communicate, but he was indeed too busy with work during this period, finding no time for interaction.
"At least I think it's very good. The average number of viewers is 600,000, and it peaked at over a million." The editor nodded, "Mainly because live archaeological excavations can really pique people's curiosity."
"Especially when you discovered what appeared to be orichalcum and speculated that this place might be the prototype of Atlantis described by Plato, the audience numbers soared, as this is something everyone is very interested in."
"More importantly, the contrast between your identity as a well-known writer and now as an archaeologist and historian makes people even more curious about you."
"You are right. That is indeed one reason, but I think another reason is that you have helped a lot in this live broadcast," Liang En smiled at his editor.
Liang En knew that his social media accounts were managed by this editor during this time, and it was thanks to his help that such a seemingly boring content could attract so many viewers.
So, in the following period, Liang En brought the newly obtained books to the excavation site and signed them during breaks.
Although this might get the books dirty with soil, feedback showed that readers not only didn't mind but seemed to like the books even more this way.
Since a series of valuable items had been excavated, Greece also agreed to their request, allowing foreign archaeological teams to enter the site for excavation besides their own archaeologists.
So, in the following week, many valuable things were discovered, such as a large number of mural remnants near the triangular plaza residences.
Considering the fragility of these murals, the archaeologists had to slow down their work, allowing more personnel to be allocated to the metal refining factory discovered by Liang En.
With more hands, the excavation progress accelerated, leading to the discovery of some very crucial items in the workshop behind the refinery used for metal finishing.
To lock down target locations conveniently, Liang En and his team used metal detectors before digging. Although most of the time they only found waste metals or ores, occasionally, they did find valuable items.
"This is—an ancient Egyptian-style amulet." After cleaning the dirt off a piece of metal, Liang En found a semi-finished amulet made of precious metal in his hand.
From the position of this amulet, it seemed to have fallen into the corner during an earthquake and was ignored by the fleeing craftsmen, remaining there until today.
After cleaning, Liang En was surprised to find an ancient Egyptian inscription on the back of the gold amulet, which read: "Our friendship is witnessed by gold, silver, and orichalcum."
Given the close interaction between Cretan civilization and ancient Egypt at that time, it was not surprising to find jewelry made for ancient Egyptians here.
However, the most valuable aspect of this amulet compared to other items was that the inscription directly indicated that one of its materials was orichalcum.
Unlike Linear A script, ancient Egyptian is a language that has been universally translated, so excluding the gold and silver on the amulet, the copper alloy on it can be confirmed to be the legendary orichalcum.
"A great discovery. This means the legend is not just a legend." The scholar from the Greek National Museum responsible for early Greek civilization research, now in charge of the work here, said.
"Considering other artifacts, we can boldly speculate that this place indeed represents the prototype of the legendary Atlantis in the real world."
The other artifacts mentioned were some black soil found in the smelting site. Initially, everyone thought it was ordinary soil, but Liang En pointed out that the soil in the jars was different from the surrounding soil.
So, the black soil was sent for testing, and through observing the organic matter in it and analyzing its overall composition, it was confirmed that this soil came from the Black Sea coastal region in Ukraine and contained a considerable amount of zinc.
This means that ancient people might have accidentally discovered that combining soil from the Black Sea coast with copper ore could produce shiny brass. They then consciously made this copper alloy and named it orichalcum.
However, the zinc content in the soil was not fixed, causing most smelting attempts to fail, further associating this copper alloy with deities and supernatural phenomena.
"So, the magical orichalcum in legends is this stuff. It's quite—surprising," Harry said, somewhat disheartened. As an enthusiast of the occult, this conclusion was quite a blow to him.
"But we also learned that ancient legends are not purely fabricated. At least most of them seem to have some factual basis," Liang En turned to Professor Harry.
"This means that finding legendary items is not entirely impossible. Maybe one day we will discover those truly mythical contents."
Of course, Liang En didn't mention that although there were no deities, the collective human thoughts converging in these legends could bring him divine-like powers.
At least from his extensive card-drawing experience, those myth-related cards were valuable because they granted Liang En some magical abilities.
Professor Harry naturally didn't know this, but he was encouraged by Liang En's affirmative tone, quickly becoming more spirited and began explaining the Atlantis legend to his students.
Unlike Professor Harry's somewhat awkward mindset, the others on site were purely joyful because they had discovered a very significant piece of history.
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