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Chapter 59 Blake's Notes
After coming out of the village, there was a long stretch of yellow sand in front of my eyes.

After driving for about [-] minutes in the endless desert, we arrived at the camp where we will stay tonight.

In the desert in front of us, more than a dozen tents were set up in a concave shape facing west.To the south is the United Nations, to the north is 279, and there are several bonfires in the middle.Off-road vehicles parked outside, wrapping the tents inside.

It's only been four or five hours since the two teams separated, and I don't know whether to praise these people for their mobility or for being full enough to achieve this efficiency.Not only me, even Meng Weiqing and the others were a little surprised seeing this scene.

The camp has all kinds of functions, and the facilities can be said to be too perfect.There is even a simple toilet and bathroom inside.

Because it rarely rains in Egypt, the toilets and bathrooms are surrounded by boards without a roof.If you take a bath at night, you can watch the stars.I don't know where they got several boxes of water, and they can take a hot bath by using solar energy.

This surprised me, who was ready to make do with sweat and hibiscus juice for the night.

279 A total of seven tents were set up here.

The tents of the two professors are at the southernmost point, across the bonfire is the place of the United Nations.Xia Shangzhou and I are next to them, Ruiya and Han Jiangxue are next to us, and further north are Li Yuan and Guangyu, Teacher Bai Meng Weiqing, Xie Xiangfeng and Chang Xiao. Squat the next two tents.When the building was built, the tents of Qihe Rongchuan, Jiang Can and Ding Zehong were outside.

Except for the necessary equipment, other outfits were left on the car and not removed.

After I took a shower, before entering the tent, I ran into Li Yuan, Jiang Can and others with towels on their shoulders. Lou Shiqi and He Rongchuan were still holding a pile of food in their hands.

"What are you doing here, a picnic?"

He Rongchuan said: "Comrade Wang, you don't understand. Naturally, some energy needs to be added to purify the body and mind in the desert."

I snorted and said, "Then you can hold the soap firmly." Then I plucked a piece of hair from their energy reserves.

The tent curtains are down.I asked first: "Is it convenient to come in?" After getting a reply, I opened the tent and walked in.

Xia Shangzhou is practicing yoga.She is thin and flexible, and her movements are full of strength.In stark contrast, I tossed my snacks onto the suitcase.

While there was still hot water, Xia Shangzhou also seized the time to gather the wool of capitalism.

It happened that nothing happened, so I took pictures of every page of old Blake's notes and sent them to Ah Tian and Lao Zhang. After sending them, I started to read them slowly from the beginning.

The entire notebook is not too thick, and there are written records and illustrations in it, and they are clear and smooth, which shows the high quality of the person who wrote this notebook.

Old Blake's notebook is not narrated according to time, basically the whole notebook is divided into four parts.

The first part records the [Temple of All Knowing] in the Valley of the Kings.

They also saw the reappearance of the ruins on the first day of the full moon, and Mustafa was the one who sacrificed at that time.Similarly, these people 60 years ago also saw a map leading to the desert.Moreover, Old Black also drew down the map through his memory, and supplemented it with subsequent experiences.

So now I can see that the last temple should be at the [corner of Sirius, circumpolar star, and moon].

What kind of geographical expression is this?I'm at a loss.

The second part is divided into two pieces:

One is the unrelocated Temple of Philae under a full moon.It was almost the same as I imagined, and it was screened in a small theater after the sacrifice.The little theater more precisely pointed to a temple in the desert, which I now know to be the Temple of Seth.

It is estimated that Li Yuan and the others also experienced this the day before yesterday.

The second is some written records of Abydos.

60 years ago, the French archaeological team was divided into two groups. Old Blake and others went south to Aswan, and the rest went north to Abydos.The communication technology at that time was already able to support the exchange of messages between the two teams.Judging from the records, there is no special response to the tomb of Osiris in Abydos.

However, the traffic at that time was still not developed enough, and those people did not catch up and finally went to the temple at the end of the full moon.But it also saved a life.

The third part is the Temple of Seth.

According to Old Black, the Temple of Seth should be one of the two temples built by Thutmose III mentioned in the [Temple of Horus] under our construction site.In the AR restoration of [Temple of Omniscience], the temple deep in the desert should also be it.

On the following page, Old Blake recorded some things about the [Temple of Horus] alone.

This temple, which does not exist in ancient Egyptian history, was first discovered in modern times in the 50s and [-]s.The French Institute of Oriental Archaeology inadvertently dug the road leading to the temple when excavating the Temple of Mengtu.

For the pharaohs of the New Kingdom, each construction project had its own special political and religious significance.The minister of construction will order craftsmen to inscribe the king's achievements on the new building in the name of the pharaoh, and will record "when and where a building with what name was built for which god".These concise and concise information are extremely important to later generations of archaeologists.

But in the [Temple of Horus], there is no name of the god.

It was lonely for a while until Akhenaten's religious reform tried to move the center of power and religion from Karnak to Almana.

As for why there is such a move, it is widely recognized in the academic circle that the right of religion has threatened the kingship, so Akhenaten needs to replace the gods controlled by the religious priesthood with a god monopolized by the royal family - Aten God , in order to save the already precarious royal family.After all, not every pharaoh is like Thutmose III, who is both a high priest and a pharaoh.Is the dual embodiment of secular power and religious power.

After explaining [Temple of Horus], Old Blake combined his later experience to analyze that the two temples are not juxtaposed, but in sequence.

After finding the Temple of Set, you will get specific information.And the secrets of the temple of Set will be answered in the final temple.

But Black didn't add what the secret of the Temple of Seth was, and he didn't know if they had found the answer.

The way those people entered the Temple of Set 60 years ago was completely different from ours.

It turned out that the French archaeological team touched the village during World War II and the Egyptian War of Independence, and discovered the Temple of Seth there.At that time, I just recorded the coordinates in a hurry, and then hurriedly withdrew.

When old Black and others came back more than ten years later, the entrance of the Temple of Set was wide open.The tributes in the temple have been emptied by the villagers.When they entered, what they saw was an empty temple.

There are no portraits of gods on the altar.According to the French, it ceased to exist more than 70 years ago.I don't know who took it away for what reason earlier.

As for the double-sided murals I accidentally discovered in the Temple of Seth, Old Blake and others also noticed it 60 years ago.

But it wasn't like us at that time, we went in with teams that didn't trust each other, and we had to dodge.The team of people directly pulled the wires to brightly illuminate the corridor and the main hall, and naturally saw the cracked surface mural at the foot of the guiding Horus statue at the end of the corridor.

It was a gap caused by a bump.It should have been knocked out by the local villagers who went in to carry the things of the temple after the French left more than 70 years ago.

Old Blake and others also followed the double-layer murals to find the main hall.After they took down the lower layers of the north and south walls, they found that the mural did indeed lead deeper into the ground.

This Temple of Seth was originally a mining field in the early days of the New Kingdom or even earlier.After Thutmose III discovered it, the Temple of Seth was built on it for some reason.

Similar content is depicted on both sides of the mural at the end of the temple.Slaves exported the ore mined here.But something was found deep in the mines that brought not only slaves, but even priests to their knees in worship.

As for the addition of a layer of murals to the original murals, the French archaeological team guessed that it was Ramses II.

Blake Sr. wrote: "The French archaeological team believes that the frescoes superimposed by Ramses II were appropriated from elsewhere."

This is unreasonable at first glance, but it is also operable.After all, the shapes of the temples are similar. Although the interior of the Temple of Seth is unusual, the mural walls are nothing new.

As for the murals on the surface, it is very likely that Ramses II collected materials locally from another temple of the sun god Amun on the ground.Then Ramesses II built the Temple of Sekhmet on the basis of the Temple of Amun whose mural wall was appropriated.

Old Black and others were able to know this in a short period of time because when the French team came here during World War II, an archaeologist stayed behind.Fortunately, the village is relatively secluded, and that person was not affected by the war.But it was also cleared out during the Revolutionary War.When Old Black and the others came, the man followed him again.

All the things in the Temple of Seth are embezzled.Let alone Thutmose III and Ramses II.

Here Old Blake added a little more.A French archaeologist named Sophie, who was Blake's ex-girlfriend and the reason why he went to Egypt in the first place, suggested that it is likely that there is another layer of murals under the double-layer murals.

Sophie believes that the time of the Temple of Seth as a mining site should be long before the reign of Thutmose III.It may even go back to the time of the former kingdom, before the pyramid period.

This also explains why the ancient Egyptian language is inscribed on the disfigured statue at the end of the temple above ground.

The members of the archaeological team were delighted with this discovery.For archaeologists, this is really a treasure that is worthless.

However, Old Black and others did not go to excavate 60 years ago, so the equipment they brought and the time reserved were not enough.So everyone didn't remove all the murals, and didn't dig any further. Instead, they prepared to dig out after returning from the temple in the desert.Sophie's conjecture can also be confirmed by then.

Of course, they never came back.

Regarding the crossed-out inscription on the altar, Blake wrote in his notes:

"There are traces of inscriptions being scratched out on the edge of the altar, and only a priest's seal pattern is faintly visible.

Mustafa recognized the seal.He said that the pattern was on the papyrus handed down by the old man in the family, but no one knew the words on it and the meaning of the group.Sophie said that it was probably a papyrus handed down from the ancient Egyptian period, and wrote some hieroglyphic characters on the notebook on the spot, and asked Mustafa if he looked like this.Mustafa looked at it and nodded yes.Sophie excitedly said that she wanted to borrow it to take a look when she went back, and Mustafa agreed.

Sophie told me that the people who came more than ten years ago did not say that the inscription was destroyed. She suggested that it would not be too late to make plans after those people arrived from Abydos.However, Ludwig said that he must find the temple before the full moon. It is better to follow the instructions in [Temple of Omniscience] and [Temple of Horus] and make a sacrifice first.

Next, Mustafa bleeds on the altar as he said, and made a sacrifice.Then at night, when the full moon rose, he received a message from ancient Egypt. "

Sir Braque wrote a thought here: [Mustafa recognized the priest's golden seal, but does anyone in modern Arabs know that he is the heir?If this responsibility has really been passed down for thousands of years, why is it being rediscovered at this time?Is it only by virtue of a song? 】

I don't know if this question has been verified, but this is also my doubt.

The Arabs themselves can be regarded as [people from afar].Why didn't they go to the temple in the desert 500 years ago, instead of 60 years ago, whether it was old Blake's, or the time we are in?
In short, by the time Old Black and the others came out of the Temple of Seth, the full moon had already set in the sky.

Sure enough, after the sacrifice, some information appeared in the Temple of Seth.

Old Blake's painting skills are good, and his spatial imagination is rich enough.Like [Temple of Omniscience], he directly drew the Temple of Seth restored under the moonlight.

Here they did not see the map again, but saw Sirius and another star.

I didn't know what that star was, but Li Yuan later told me that it was Polaris.

In the starry sky displayed by the Temple of Seth, Sirius, Polaris and the full moon are arranged in the sky.Then the perspective of the old Blake's pen changed suddenly, and a temple rose from the sea of ​​sand.

He wrote here: [We are with the circumpolar stars, surrounded by Sirius and the moon.Ancient Egyptian temples emerged from the desert. 】

This statement confuses me.

Could it be that to find this temple, one has to fly up to the sky and stand side by side with the stars?
In addition, Old Black specially drew a picture of the rules of the Senet game seen in the small theater of the temple.But I have no impression.

He also wrote a confusing line on the side: The rules have always been made by those who make the rules.

This reminds me of what Li Yuan asked Jacqueline when he found the entrance to the Temple of Seth.What if we solve this game wrong.

Li Yuan didn't get an answer at that time.

I have a feeling we'll encounter this game again.It's just that I don't know what kind of road ahead I will face at that time.

The fourth part of the notes is the final temple that has all the answers.

After old Black and the French archaeological team crossed the desert guarded by Set, they came across a building like no other.There is a sketch in the note, which looks like a mountain standing in the middle of the desert.

When I turned to the end of the notes, the writing 60 years ago came to an abrupt end here.What happened after entering the temple was originally recorded, but it was torn down.

It looks like this note was edited before it was in my hands.I don't know if it was torn off by the old man in the village or Sir Black.

For a moment, I suspected that Meng Weiqing did it.Fortunately, the stubble left on the paper is obviously old, so I won't face this situation.But people who doubt their own team are far more likely to be covered up than the truth makes me uncomfortable.

I was stunned for a while, not thinking about when the feeling of being calculated by others lingered.

On the last page of the note, which was not torn out, Blake Sr. wrote: I wish I hadn't been here.

(End of this chapter)