"What is this?!"
Susan's gaze sharpened. She had never expected there to be such a hidden mystery within.
And for this parchment scroll to have been concealed so carefully, it was clearly no ordinary thing.
At the same time, the silver symbols looked familiar to her, as though she had seen them somewhere before. Yet for the moment, she could not recall where.
"This parchment scroll is roughly four thousand years old. During the tanning process, a special substance was added, allowing it to remain intact for four thousand years."
Zhao Cheng said.
"The writing on it originated from a tribe called Su. That tribe was the source of the ancient Sumerian Dynasty.
"During the tribal era, only the most esteemed priests could master this script. In that age, priests used it to communicate with the gods."
Zhao Cheng did not conceal anything and laid everything out.
Objects could speak. Some highly skilled specialists could obtain a great deal of information from ancient artifacts through visual observation alone.
And having cultivated to Zhao Cheng's realm, he could directly see the origin and history of an object.
As Zhao Cheng held the parchment scroll and spoke, he was also pondering inwardly.
In his perception, something within this parchment scroll seemed to have already been extinguished. Yet though the thing itself was gone, it had left traces behind.
It was precisely those traces that had allowed this parchment scroll to remain so tough even after four thousand years.
"So it was the Sumerian Dynasty. I knew this writing looked somewhat familiar."
"According to legend, the Sumerian Dynasty wielded powers bestowed by the gods, and thus built a magnificent civilization. Yet very little information about them has survived. Then, all of a sudden, the dynasty collapsed, the civilization was severed entirely, and many