Stories about merchants or cunning merchant Chapter 52

The historian said that you need to dig treasures near or along the roads, merchants, merchants, oins, robbers, travelers went along them . . . you can find a lot of interesting things . We have almost no forests, but many roads . Since the time of the 8th century BC . . .

. . . now I've been living here for 20 years . . . and I found a lot of interesting things . . .

it seems clear why he stayed here in the village, flashed through my head . . .

Here are my findings and he casually showed his hand on the shelf where some old coins were lying in plastic bottles with . . .
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I found copper coins of Alexander the Great, Chinese coins of the eras of Xia, Sha, Tan, Qing, Han . . . and many others, Persian, Turkish, Russian, German, French, 16-19 centuries .

There were ours - gold and silver, copper . . . imperial, two empires . . .

I found arrowheads, lead bullets, fragments of swords, and even twice . . . an almost complete Lewis machine gun . Visibly remained since the 1920s and 30s of the last century .

I found finds in the ruins of old fortresses, caravanserais, abandoned houses on the slopes of the mountains . The finds are different . . . from old books written in Arabic, to indications of silver, medals of the tsarist era, World War I . . . aluminum spoons, sometimes fragments of sabers, swords . . .

In general, this is our story . . . I'm not a black digger, so I keep everything for the opening of the Light Mountains Museum of Local Lore . I am collecting history piece by piece, both material and non-material . I preserve the cultural heritage that young people so easily sell to foreigners for a penny . Money is not the main thing ?! Money is only a means, you need to be able to maintain your identity, culture, heritage inherited from the ancestors . . .

What is interesting, the Light mountains were at one time part of the Boss empire, then the Tang empire, after which the border of the Arab caliphate . . . the Turkic Khaganate passed . . . then the border between the kingdom of Small-An and Tsarist Russia . . . and then . . . the mountains ceased to play any kind of importance . . . they became inland . . . for now . . . once . . .

. . . they were not found in them again . . . forgotten mines . . . walled up from the 13th century . . . gold, silver . . . and . . . uranium . . . then a second life began at the mountains . . . until one day found a more convenient deposit in the desert . . . and then the mountains forgot again . . . only individual diggers, prospectors worked in mountain gorges . . .

They remembered the mountains again when they began to think about ecology . . . and tourism . These mountains deserve a separate book, encyclopedia, memory . . . until now, these mountains remain unexplored until the end . . . The "white spot" in history .

But for now, we are studying . . . looking, finding!

And then you can get a great museum of local lore! Showing that these mountains have never been on the outskirts of the world, and in all ages actively participated in the trading life of Asia, Europe and Africa . . .

Chinese travelers and monks passed through them in the 5th, 6th, 9th, 12th centuries . . . they saw Genghis Khan . . . maybe Alexander the Great, but not one hundred percent, although legends go about it . But the legends . . . they have part of the truth and part of the fiction . . .

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Some locals pointing to the cave paintings indicate that alien ships landed in the mountains . . . and point to strange drawings . . . a man in a spacesuit . . . although this could be anything . . . how to interpret cave paintings . . . few know for sure, one hundred percent . One can only guess . . .

There is a tree that is at least 1500-2000 years old . Since this tree is considered ancient, and among the locals it is holy, because of their mixing of beliefs to monotheistic . . . nobody will allow to explore the tree . One can only speculate . . .

There is also an ancient mountain lake with the name "Tangri" . . . . there are many ancient ruins of fortresses and there . . . how many interesting things are hidden underground? !!!!!

It's a pity that you can't use drones . . . it would be easier, it's a pity that you can't use metal detectors . . . well, I can, I have permission . . . but I haven't received any drones yet . I sent a request, I'm already waiting for the second year . . .

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