The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

In order to obtain the exact information about the dagger, Zhang Nan asked American Express to help him find a few experts familiar with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and asked to keep it confidential.

American Express is also awesome, and their customers have such experts, even William Brin.

It’s easy to do things with money, and I’m looking for people around New York, so I don’t have to send a fax.

Using micro-photography technology to photograph several parts of the text engraved on the dagger, and then hand them over to the three experts contacted in sections, but the final conclusion made Zhang Nan a little bit dumbfounded: each expert took a few minutes to interpret I understand the meaning, but the text content can’t be connected at all!

A hammer in the east and a hammer in the west are incomprehensible.

Hieroglyphs are not modern Chinese. Chinese is a complete sentence that can be spelled out one by one. Experts told him that Egyptian hieroglyphs sometimes can only be understood by connecting multiple characters.

When he was in Sudan, Zhang Nan had a hunch that this dagger was not an item of the Kush Kingdom, it was most likely their trophy. And the conclusion of this meeting has come out on the small piece of paper, it is the ancient Egyptian thing-divided into pieces and cannot be answered, in the end there is no way, after one of the experts with the strictest mouth is said to sign a non-disclosure agreement again, Zhang Nan asked the other party to divide it. Read the full text twice.

There are a total of three small pieces of paper. The upper line is "Ghost Painting Symbols", and the lower is the modern text content after interpretation.

The hieroglyphs on the handle of the dagger is an ibis representing the **** Thoth, and this **** Thoth was the **** of wisdom and the moon in ancient Egypt, Heliopolis (also known as the "city of the sun", the most important in ancient Egypt One of the sacred places.) The local master god, the inventor of writing, and the documents of the gods, are depicted as standing judges in the "Book of the Dead". It appears as a man or a baboon wearing a full moon disc and crested crested crested ibis.

Now people have made a pronunciation for this word-"Tute";

A wood is now pronounced "Mo"; a folded cloth, pronounced "S"; a scarab, and a lute-like thing that actually represents the heart and trachea, and three small vertical rods side by side.

If we separate these hieroglyphs, we can only conclude that this passage is related to the **** Thoth and the sun god, because the scarab also seems to represent the sun god.

Parted in confusion, but connecting all the words together, it represents a person's name, the king's name of a very famous pharaoh in the history of ancient Egypt: Thutmose III.

Here Nicole turned over to the pages of the eighteenth dynasty of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh's lineage table.

"Thutmose III, the pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. Among the 31 dynasties of ancient Egypt, the 18th dynasty was the one with the longest duration, the largest territory, and the most prosperous nation.

The book says that Thutmose III was the master of this dynasty. He was born around 1514 BC and died around 1425 BC. He lived long and was the most famous pharaoh of the 18th dynasty for martial arts.

It is generally believed that it was Thutmose III who made ancient Egypt complete the qualitative change from a regional kingdom to an intercontinental empire. He is also considered to be one of the greatest pharaohs of ancient Egypt, and is now called the ‘Napoleon of the ancient world’.

By the way, that Tutankhamun should be his great-great-grandson. "

After listening to Nicole's words, this golden dagger with a meteorite iron blade is the property of Thutmose III?

Could it be engraved by the later Pharaoh?

Improbable, almost never did this pharaoh.

And the other two paragraphs of text on the blade are: Son of the Sun God, Great God; Conqueror of Kadesh.

Kadesh, the kingdom of southern Syria, was destroyed shortly after Thutmose III took office. This pharaoh was also very sad when he was young. He took office only at the age of 32 because of an extremely powerful aunt.

Nicole had already learned everything on the inscription from experts, which was necessary to determine the origin of the dagger, otherwise it would be difficult to understand without a historical background.

Thutmose III's father, Pharaoh Thutmose II, was short-lived and did not leave much performance, but he left behind a capable and powerful wife, Hatshepsut.

Hatshepsut not only controlled the court for 22 years, but also officially wore the crown. She was the first female emperor in the history of the world.

Sadly, Thutmose III is the son of his father's concubine Isis, who has lived in the shadow of Hatshepsut since childhood.

In 1482 BC, the female pharaoh suddenly died, and the 32-year-old Thutmose was finally able to take charge, while the kingdom of Kadesh in southern Syria was attempting to organize an anti-Egyptian alliance.

After Thutmose stabilized the domestic situation, he immediately launched the first battle after his administration, marching into Syria and Palestine, conquering the kingdom of Kadesh, and allowing nearby city-states to submit to Egyptian rule.

With this analysis, some things will become clear.

Zhang Nan played with the gold meteorite steel dagger in his hand, and said: "This may be specially made by the pharaoh to commemorate the conquest of Syria. UU reading www.uukanshu.com is so well preserved, it should be better than Tutanka. Mon that dagger is about 150 years away in the morning."

After laboratory analysis, the nickel content of the blade has reached 8%, no wonder it can be preserved.

Nicole would sit on the hardwood chair next to her. Recently, she started to hate leather sofas. She felt sore back while sitting and still felt comfortable in hardwood. Now I heard Zhang Nan's words and said: "Such a well-preserved meteorite steel weapon must be the world's number one. It is a mystery how to get to the royal tomb of the Pyramid of Sudan."

Zhang Na tilted her head, "Don't worry about this. There are few pharaoh's tombs that have not been stolen. Maybe it has been in the pharaoh's tomb several times as funerals."

"But...you said you found it behind the wooden door. Which king would use the weapons of the venerable ancestors as a watchdog?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Nan couldn’t laugh or cry: “Don’t say it so badly, maybe it’s possible that the Seti used this dagger as a side weapon for a long time. Maybe it’s a custom. There may even be political opponents making hands and feet in the final stage of closing the tomb. It's not necessarily if the Feng Shui of the Seti family is broken.

Who knows, you can't ask the mummy, right? "

Nicole is not interested in mummy, that's it.

There is no need to pursue it. In the era of Seti, it was not difficult for a King Kush to obtain an iron weapon, because the Azovs at that time and the Hittites earlier had mastered iron smelting technology for hundreds of years. Began to use iron weapons.

But even so, a meteorite "stainless steel" dagger that was already antique at the time should be invaluable.

And from ancient Egypt, if it is the favorite thing of King Seti during his lifetime, it might be regarded as a funeral, and even a little bit of ostentation.

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