A subversive discovery is that the Chinese character "Jim here" Chinese actually appeared in an ancient architectural site in Britain more than 1,600 years ago!
Stone blocks with characters appearing at the site
In a small village in Berksford, West Berkshire, southeast England, in the ruins of a villa from the Roman period around the fourth century AD, a huge mosaic painting in the Roman art style was found, the fresco was 6 meters long and about 30 square meters, mainly depicting ancient Greek mythological stories, the story of the grandson of the god king Zeus racing through chariots and finally winning the princess Hippodamemia, Belle Rophon riding the Pegasus defeated Chimera and other stories.
Cleaned out the mosaic paintings
The production of a mosaic painting has a very high artistic difficulty, the requirements for artistic attainment, the requirements for skills are also very high, only the nobility can have enough financial resources to paint mosaic paintings, so mosaic painting is an extremely luxurious art. The mosaic painting discovered this time is the fourth surviving mosaic painting in the world, which is regarded by the United Kingdom as the greatest discovery in 50 years and has a very important historical value in the study of British history.
Cleaning up...
When experts excavated and cleaned up the site, they also unearthed other cultural relics, including animal bones, copper jewelry, and stone blocks with letters, and found that one of the stones actually had a sentence written by Chinese Simplified " Jim here" on it. It caused an uproar in the British archaeological community, and the highest-selling newspaper in the United Kingdom, the Sun, reported on the matter, attracting many scholars to speculate and speculate on the matter. The largest news media, the BBC, also analyzed and discussed the matter, and the mysterious oriental text appeared on the European continent a thousand years ago, Chinese visited this place 1600 years ago? There are still modern Chinese traveled to Europe a thousand years ago. According to the identification of archaeologists, this stone relic is not forged by modern people. According to the representatives of Chinese historical years, the fourth century AD was the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China, and the simplified characters only began in modern times, and the modern simplified characters appeared on the European continent in the fourth century AD, which is really incredible.
Mosaic paintings being cleaned up
The official explanation for this is that the British archaeological team believes that they are not necessarily Chinese characters, because of their obvious abstraction, it is likely that they are just similar.
Stone with Chinese carved in it
Abstraction of a word or two is possible, but character abstraction, similar, can form a complete Chinese?
Is this a real thing, or is it a prank?