40 years ago...
Archeologist Dr. Bhaskar Bandopadhyay was finally successful in finding the ancient city of Vanampa, with help from fellow Archeologist Dr. Sujoy Chatterjee and Historian Dr. Sophia Laura. Dr. Laura was Italian but her Indian Ancient history was her specialty and because of the same reason the government had chosen her in this team.
The excavation process was going on, laborers were busy in digging the ancient ruins. The site was surrounded by tents. The British India government had appointed Captain Tom Mackenzie and his soldiers to help Bhaskar. The site was present in between thick forests somewhere in north west hilly regions of India which now belongs to Pakistan.
Bhaskar, Sujoy, Sophia and captain Mackenzie were busy sipping tea in their tents when a labourer came running in the tent and informed- "Sahib, We got a big metal box".
Bhaskar left the tea and came out while others decided to finish their tea.
When bhaskar reached the exact site where the box was found he saw laborers liftin the box to the level. He signaled them to open the box. It took a lot of effort but when finaly the box opened every body was shocked. The box was filled with gold coins, jewels, artifacts of different kinds but what caught the eye of Bhaskar was the statue of Pashupati with an emerald embedded in it. The emerald glowed as Bhaskar looked at it. He took out the statue from the box and examined it. At the base of statue something was written, he tried to read it but it was so small that he couldn't. He would need a magnifying glass he thought. He kept the statue in his own bag to read the inscriptions on it later and sent a laborer to call for Mackenzie, Sophia and Sujoy.
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Captain Mackenzie had thrown a very party for the whole excavation team, laborers were happy to taste the english alcohol but Bhaskar was even happier because tomorrow was the day they were going to tell the discovery to the world.
The party ended and everybody retired to their tents. At around midnight someone came running in Bhaskar’s tent. Bhaskar got yp suddenly with the noise. It was Sophia. She looked terrified.
“We have to leave this place bhaskar, right now!”, Sophia said.
“Why?”, Bhaskar asked trying to guess.
“I just came out of my tent to take in some fresh air and I was passing by Sujoy’s tent. Captain Mackenzie was also there. I overheard them talking…….”
“Talking what?”
“They are planning to kill us both so that they both can take the treasure as well as the name for finding this civilization.”
“What sort of silly joke is this”, Bhaskar said.
“I am telling the truth,, believe me.. that’s what I heard”..
Suddenly they heard few footstep coming towards their tent.
“See.. they are coming… let’s run”.
On this, Bhaskar had no choice. If it was a sort of silly joke it will be over if he would agree to her. They came out from the other side of the tent and quietly walked towards the jungle.
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