The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

This is a military control area, but a control area that is about to be abandoned. The main reason for the abandonment is not because of the transfer of the ground division, but the changes in the international situation.

In the past few decades, these Arab countries like to smash Israel, which has stabilized a lot on both sides. Coupled with the changes in Egypt’s foreign policy over the years, there is no longer a need for so many military control areas.

Besides, there is obviously a solid foundation for the large-scale development of tourism in this area. The relocation of military facilities is only a matter of time.

A division with tens of thousands of people, of course, is not only deployed in this area. According to Zhang Nan's estimation, it would be good to have an armored regiment-level unit.

Yesterday, I learned that the original main station of the army was in the southern area of ​​the control area, more than one kilometer away from the curved pyramid. People like Zhang Nan could not go there because there were a small number of troops left behind.

The barracks provided for the archaeological team and Zhang Nan were very close to the curved pyramid, and there was a barracks located less than two hundred meters west of the pyramid.

But the convoy did not stop here, but continued to the southwest and deep into the desert. Two kilometers away was the location of the archaeological team: the barracks had sufficient infrastructure, but both Zhang Nan and Charlize Theron wanted to go first. Go to see the archaeological site.

A piece of sand, the terrain slightly undulates, it should be slightly higher than the elevation of the Nile River by 20 to 30 meters.

The two or three kilometers of desert terrain on the side of the Nile is a bit of a misnomer. In Zhang Nan’s view, it is more like Gobi. There is sand, but not much. The terrain is still very flat. This may have been the efforts of Egyptians generation after generation for thousands of years. the result of.

Protect the Nile River and the irrigation areas along its sides, the true lifeline of Egypt. If the sand dunes hit the Nile River, the river will not be broken, but agriculture will be over!

But far enough away from the river bank, this sand dune appeared. Although it is not very high, it is still a sand dune.

I can see through the window of the car that there are armed guards. Looking at the uniforms and equipment, it is obvious that they are still "united forces" personnel.

A row of off-road vehicles parked next to the archaeological excavation site, where the convoy also parked.

To get out of the car, Zhang Nan buckled a sun hat on the table on the girl's forehead, "Bring it on, and be careful of getting tanned."

"I think the color of wheat is better."

Charlie wanted to take off the hat.

"I don't like yellow, white, or white skin tones. In a few years, do you want the audience to see a wheat-colored British aristocratic girl?"

A sentence that was a bit racially discriminatory caused the girl to stop her action immediately, grinned, and straightened the hat on her forehead smoothly.

Brother doesn't like wheat color, so don't sun it.

Zhang Nan has yellow skin, which is a healthy color, but he looks a bit awkward at the so-called wheatish color that white people deliberately expose.

It doesn't matter if a man is exposed to it, it's about his own business!

But Charlie wouldn't look good if she was tanned like that. She wasn't Latino, and she was originally a standard white person, so she would look pretty white.

Zhang Nan is still very picky.

Get off the car, the bodyguards split into two floors, enclosing Zhang Nan and the girl in the middle.

I saw Professor William Brin walking tens of meters away, but I didn't need to bother him because the security contractor leader who had arrived early was reporting to Guan Xingquan about the safety arrangements.

There are no Egyptians here. It is said that officials from the Ministry of Culture will come here for many days. This is because of the bureaucracy and William Brin’s failure to tell them his true judgment.

As for the left-behind Egyptian soldiers, dozens of big cats and kittens, they only looked after military equipment and barracks. Except for a left-behind captain who took two people to visit at the beginning of the excavation, they didn't come to join in the fun afterwards.

It's all gravel and sand, and there are some arranged stones: in other countries it may arouse the curiosity of military people, but this is Egypt, they have long been used to it. If there are characters or figures on the stone slabs, they may still pay attention to it, but it is the stone, and it won't come again on a hot day.

It’s good to look after the house, and for matters coordinated by the Ministry of Culture, this area will be used by the archaeological team for at least two to three months.

The army is too lazy to participate. As for the people of the Ministry of Culture, why don't they care about it...

Who is the captain asking?

This is fun. The people in the Ministry of Culture thought that the soldiers were watching, and the soldiers thought that the people in the Ministry of Culture were there. The two sides took it for granted, and they called each other within half a month.

The content is roughly as follows:

"My fellow soldier, you have worked hard!"

"Well, it's okay, it's too hot, but it's better than the brothers who went to the Gulf. It's a pity, you have to look after the house, and you have to watch it for you. If it's in the Persian Gulf..."

"That's right, I can't say more about this, I hope you guys..."

The call started to digress, and he said a few unclassified war topics by the way, and neither said where the Americans dug up, and then the call ended.

The system is not unified and not connected, and that's it.

But almost every one or two days in the archaeological camp, there are people driving jeep over to deal with the soldiers. They either go to Cairo or Dahshurce to buy them and put down two boxes of Coke, or buy some fresh vegetables from the soldiers. .

The Egyptian army has a farm. This army’s site is in the Nile River Irrigation Zone outside the control zone. There are soldiers specializing in agricultural production and management, and some nearby civilian laborers are employed.

Usually not only supplies the army needs, but also wholesales to the market in Cairo. Recently, the main force of the army has been transferred, and the supply is sufficient. The officers who stay behind do not mind filling up the small vault.

In this way, the two sides have a good relationship.

...

After getting off the car, Zhang Nan looked at the surrounding environment. Observation posts were arranged on the sand dunes more than 100 meters away and 20 meters high. It was a clear post. It was set up with a pergola and could be seen from below.

I can only make a whistle. Although it is already October, the temperature in a cool place during the day can still reach 35 degrees. Even if the dry heat is not particularly uncomfortable, it is definitely choking under the sun!

Secret whistle hiding on the sand?

That is not much different from simmering hard-boiled eggs.

When William arrived, he said: "Mr. Allen, you are finally here!

Our discovery this time can definitely be written into the annals of history! "

A few acquaintances, a large group of security contractors with sunglasses, even if the professor opened his throat and shouted, he didn't have to worry about his words being heard by the Egyptians.

After doing a good job on the surface, he shook hands with the other party, and Zhang Nan said, "William, did you find the second Tutankhamun tomb?"

This is obviously a ridicule among old friends: The tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun is in the Valley of the Tombs, the only pharaoh's tomb whose main tomb has not been stolen.

What is here?

One of the three pyramid areas, it would be no surprise to find a pyramid construction site that was abandoned shortly after construction began, but if there is a Pharaoh’s tomb, or the one that has not been stolen, what would it be if it was not a joke?

The result was unexpected. William Brin said with a mysterious face and lowered his voice: "We should have discovered the fourth pyramid built by Pharaoh Snefru!"

We are very level, and here Zhang Nan has an incredible expression.

"Really, Mr. Allen. The pyramid was moved away from the building stones above it, leaving only a twenty-meter-high residue. It was originally covered by sand dunes, so it was not found.

Not only that, a cemetery of the pharaoh officials who accompany hiding near the pyramid has been discovered. Although most of them have been stolen, there is still one intact.

It should have been a flat-topped tomb, and its level was not low. "

The pyramid does not exist alone. As usual, there will be some temple-like facilities around it. At the same time, it is also a common practice to have a cemetery nearby for the important ministers and close servants of the pyramid owner.

It's just that the time is too long, the limestone pyramids will collapse and disappear. The granite stones built will make time afraid of it, but they can't stop the destruction of those who have not recorded any records in more than four thousand years.

Ancient Egypt experienced more than 30 dynasties for more than 3,000 years before being killed by Octavian, the latest of which was more than 2,000 years away from now.

To put it bluntly, these dynasties are the same dynasties as in ancient China. The time is too long. Even the records of the Roman era are not complete, let alone the 2,600 years from the Fourth Dynasty to the Roman era.

For 26 centuries, the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty was about 2625 BC, but the positioning can give a special note that "the age error may be 100 years".

At that time, there were written records, but after 46 centuries, the records were too few and difficult to pass through!

What we know now is that the fourth dynasty lasted for more than 110 years. Attention, it is only approximate, because this dynasty includes Snefru, Khufu, Regidev, Khafre, Menkara, Shepsesk and Dedev. Putah and other 7 pharaohs.

"Probably, many years, etc..." A bunch of non-affirmative words, because I really can't be sure, it's too long!

Who pits and who is the second-force!

The fourth dynasty is very famous. The first pharaoh of the dynasty, Snefru, built the curved pyramid and the red pyramid... His son Khufu was the second pharaoh, and Khufu’s son Khafre built the second largest in Egypt. The pyramid is also considered to be the sphinx next to the pyramid, the builder of the Sphinx.

Pharaoh Khufu is famous enough, the Great Pyramid was made by him, but people today can only believe that he inherited the throne of the Pharaoh in his twenties based on records more than two thousand years ago, according to the King of Turin table (now already A copy of the Turin papyrus ~www.readwn.com~ is also called the Turin King’s List. It is a historical material that records the list of all the pharaohs in ancient Egypt before 1200 BC, and is the basis of the chronicle of the ancient Egyptian dynasty.) , He ruled for about 23 years.

However, that document seems to be unreliable. Other documents of later generations recorded Khufu’s reign for a longer period: Manneto (active period from the end of the fourth century BC to the beginning of the third century BC, ancient Egyptian priests and historians He wrote the book "History of Egypt" in Greek. The fragments of the book have been preserved by church historians and become important historical materials for modern people to study the history of ancient Egypt.) believes that its reign was 63 years; and he lived in AD Herodotus, an ancient Greek writer and historian in the first five centuries, thought it was 50 years.

As for modern archaeology, the discovery of Pharaoh Khufu is even more pitiful. Apart from the mountain-like pyramid, there is only one pharaoh statue with the length of fingers, and there are several places where stones with his name were found.

Besides, Khufu, as for his old father Snefru, there are three pyramids left, but he is still unsure where he is buried!

People are afraid of time, time is afraid of pyramids...

But time can wipe out the people who built the pyramids!

Now I heard that William said that not only the possible fourth pyramid has been discovered, but there are also burial tombs of the same period. This is amazing!

Not to mention the pyramid itself and the unstolen burial tombs, even if a burial burial site that has been dug up in the past four thousand years is discovered, it is a major discovery in ancient Egyptian archeology!

To pull Zhang Nan into the group, this William must have other plans, not just for fame.

If only for fame, he would have succeeded in this meeting, and even if he was left to the Egyptians to dig by himself, it would be enough to make him famous in the world of archaeology.

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