The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

If you calculate according to the timeline, the earliest civilized country equipped with bows and arrows is definitely ancient Egypt, no way, people have a solid foundation! In the Ancient Kingdom period, the main weapons of the Egyptian army were tomahawks, bows and javelins.

In particular, bows and arrows have been used for the longest time. Until the large-scale appearance of firearms, they have always been the most important single-soldier luxury weapons in the army, with long life force.

It’s just that in the age of the tomb owner Ihadu, although metal has been used for a long time, the arrowheads are basically flint. The copper arrowheads have not been equipped on a large scale, so I don’t know if there is copper in the tomb of this senior general. Of high-end goods.

The ancient Egyptian army was equipped with bronze arrowheads on a large scale, and it would take another 500 years to reach the 11th dynasty. The appearance of bronze arrowheads will not occur until 1,000 years after Ihadu.

Resource reasons, because ancient Egypt basically did not produce tin, it had to rely on imports.

Here is an interesting question: the most amazing thing about the ancient kingdom of Egypt is that its army and society are still in the stage of mixing bronze and stone, but they have built great pyramids!

Notice!

It is a mixture of bronze and stone, not a mixture of bronze and stone: Egyptian society in the Ancient Kingdom did not have hard bronze, at least there was no bronze with a reasonable ratio of lead to tin. At that time, the copper products obtained by smelting with the technology mastered were not only soft in texture, but also very small in quantity.

At that time, in battles, stone axes and javelins were the mainstream equipment for individual combat. Arrows were largely consumables. Copper was not enough to make javelin heads and axes. There was no room for casting arrows.

Besides, the flint-shaped arrowheads are very sharp and are enough to cut the human body. Anyway, the ancient Egyptian army itself and nearby opponents at that time had no concept of armor at all, and fighting basically was bare-bones.

It's not just a question of resources and productivity levels: it's hot weather for most of the year, so I don't know how to wear this armor!

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Just now Zhang Nan said that he should not take pictures first, and his meaning is obvious: I will talk about what I like.

Ancient Egyptian artifacts from 4600 years ago are rare. Copper objects are even rarer. What's more rare is that bows and battle axes are funerary objects rather than obnoxious artifacts.

Metal weapons from 4600 years ago, how many private collectors in this world have?

Thanks to the desert environment and the dry crypt, the battle axe still has a bit of metallic luster, and time seems to have stopped in the deep burial chamber.

As for not talking about arrowheads: I didn't see it when I just looked in. Maybe it's behind those clay pots, but I can't take pictures anyway.

Since the front can't be photographed, I'm still anxious.

Two arrows are enough. Whether they are made of stone or copper, it means nothing more than the meaning: the bow of 4600 years ago can no longer shoot arrows. It is a beautiful decoration.

As for the other items in the tomb, if there are jewels in the two boxes, the outside camera will not be able to take them anyway, so you can get a few more items at that time;

The underworld is not interested. There are probably no good objects in the coffin except for the mummy: Not to mention that there were no golden masks in ancient Egypt at that time. Even if there were, Zhang Nan would not think about collecting the stuff on the face of the mummy.

Boss Guan also went down and looked at it. After coming up, he said to Zhang Nan who had already arrived near the entrance of the pyramid: "I thought there would be a scythe and a carriage, but there was nothing."

General, you won’t be arrogant if you set up a carriage to bury you, right?

In this regard, Zhang Nan struggled for a long time before saying to him: "Brother Guan, you were deceived by Hollywood!"

Why did Guan Xingquan say that?

There was a Scorpion King in ancient Egypt. According to legend, it unified the kings of ancient Egypt earlier than Menis in the pre-dynastic period. Later, Hollywood also sent several "Scorpion King" movies based on him.

According to archaeological research, it is speculated that the Scorpion King should have existed, and there may be two others, namely King Scorpion I and King Scorpion II.

However, "The Scorpion King", which is slashing people with a strange sickle-shaped knife, has not been filmed yet, but similar American movies have long been available. They are super rotten or simply old movies with no special effects. Guan Boss has his free time. I saw it in the manor on Long Island: To sum up, the battle scene in the movie is a two-wheeled chariot plus a scimitar that is indispensable for infantry. The "standard equipment" in ancient Egyptian movies seems to be no matter what era of ancient Egypt, Any dynasty applies.

But the problem is that this pre-dynastic period was the first period of Egyptian civilization. It was too early, more than 5,000 years ago! Until the 31st century BC, Menis unified the upper and lower Egypt, the end of the previous dynasty, and the beginning of the early dynasty.

At that time, Egypt’s weapons were bows, javelins, daggers, clubs, scepters, and throwing sticks: scepters were weapons at that time, and their damage to people’s heads was similar to that of hammers today.

There is a problem: Ihadu was a general of the Fourth Dynasty. At that time, there was only one unit on the land of ancient Egypt, and that was the infantry.

Only infantry, no chariots!

Because 4600 years ago, there were no war horses in ancient Egypt. Maybe there were donkeys. Donkeys pulled chariots?

The picture is too beautiful to think about.

To reach the end of the second intermediate period after 1100 years from the era in which Ihadu lived, ancient Egyptian talents imported war horses and chariots from abroad.

At this time, Zhang Nan was a little embarrassed to tell Boss Guan that "no horses and no carts", this is not over yet, "...that kind of scythe is later than the chariot, it will be 3,400,500 years ago. In the New Kingdom period."

When making movies, how to be beautiful? The average audience would not know that ancient Egypt, which lasted more than 3,000 years, was also developing. They thought that the ancient Egyptians more than 5,000 years ago used the same guys as their offspring 3,000 years later.

Guan Xingquan didn't care. He was not an expert in ancient Egyptian history, so he was not ashamed.

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The tomb wall in the tomb of Mastaba needs time to be demolished. It can't be "80 with a hammer" and hand it over to the students and miners of William Brin. Anyway, someone helps Zhang Nan stare at it.

The professor had seen enough of the tomb and had to come up to find Zhang Nan.

Zhang Nan's attitude has been very clear, and the spoils can be divided on the premise of being able to negotiate and disclose the archaeological results. This is also a good thing for William Brin.

Zhang Nan was going to check the pyramid, and the professor had to follow. This was a patron who could not offend. In any case, the tomb of Mastaba is more attractive than the pyramid.

But this time Zhang Nan didn't do anything recklessly, don't remember to rush into it: The gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, Sanchez, the old Zamorano and Qiu Bo volunteered to go first.

Entering the pyramid passage similar to a tunnel, the mine rescue team has a professional advantage. Besides, Sanchez, who has been in a section before, thinks it is not particularly dangerous.

Bring the flashlight, the guide rope and the fluorescent spray to go in. Zhang Nan and his group waited at the entrance of the passage.

Not long after, more than ten minutes, Qiu Bo came out of the three.

Just now the three of them could understand their intentions by gesturing inside, and cooperate happily, but the results of this investigation were not pleasant.

"The passage is complete, but it is divided into two passages at the third corner.

The first one is a dead end, connected to a small room that has not been used; the second one leads to a tomb where the partition wall has been destroyed, and there are only two broken clay pots and a few broken pieces of wood inside, which have been stolen. "

After listening to Qiu Bo's words, Zhang Nan and William were a little disappointed, so they entered the passage.

The biggest feeling is that it is deep and depressed. The passage is not high and level. After the first turn, it walked more than 30 meters and then turned left and south. After 20 meters, it was the third turning point and the second fork.

One straight forward, less than 20 meters away, is the closed stone masonry wall that has been smashed open. The tomb inside is three meters wide and five meters long.

It was almost empty inside. The people who destroyed the pyramid in ancient times, or the tomb robbers of earlier times had already removed all the valuable funerary objects. Fortunately, there are reliefs on the walls of the tomb, depicting the communication between the king and the gods, leading to rebirth.

The relief in the pyramid 4600 years ago was another major discovery.

Even if he had guessed this before, William was still disappointed: there were murals in the style of the Ancient Kingdom, but there were no words, and he was not 100% sure that this was the final burial place of Snefru.

Zhang Nan is not interested in the empty tomb, but he is a little curious about the old-fashioned ineffective passages and tombs in the ancient Egyptian pyramids. I remember that it was also the case in the Pyramid of Khufu.

Since one tomb is enough, why bother to make the passages and tombs that are not available?

Go back the same way and check the dead end.

It's very long. After turning from the second fork, it walked nearly fifty meters to the end.

The channel technology is good, not only the stones are neatly excavated, but even the walls and the top are scraped with smooth plaster.

The space at the end was enlarged, and obviously it should have been a tomb at the beginning, at least as a spare, or prepared by someone for the queen.

There were murals on the walls and on the ceiling, but in the end it was empty: there were no traces of the enclosed walls or doors at the junction with the passage, and it was not used after the completion.

"A little short!"

Zhang Nan saw that the murals on the wall were still a kind of communication between people and gods, and there were still no words, so he looked up at the zenith and casually said the height here.

Charlize Theron, who came in together, complained about the oppression of space. Zhang Nan smiled and said: "Who made you grow a Fab? At that time, the average height of an ancient Egyptian man was less than 1.6 meters. , The female is only 1.53 meters tall, why do you build too high.

But this tomb was too depressing. The pharaoh loved to live in a big house, and he was a little bit aggrieved. "

Fab is long, so big men make clothes and fabrics.

It's awkward, this is a pyramid, your spare tomb is only about two meters, two or three meters high, it's uncomfortable!

The same was true for the tomb just now. Jacob, the tallest, had to hit the ceiling accidentally when he came, and this passage had to bow his head.

"Will the Pharaoh wrong himself?"

Will not!

Absolutely not!

Zhang Nan was agitated by the thoughts that popped out of his mind, and seemed to have caught some inspiration!

He stretched out his hand, beckoning everyone to stop talking!

Just a few seconds later, he said to the side: "This place is too short, there is a problem with the height!

There is definitely a problem!

Knock around, don't destroy the mural! "

A group of people lit up, and immediately acted: There may be secret rooms around!

Yes, I felt a bit too depressing at the stolen main tomb just now. After I got here, it became more and more obvious: even if the ancient Egyptians were not tall, the pharaoh's final destination was not a small house for commoners. , Why bother?

Think of the Pyramid of Khufu, where the aisles, halls and tombs are obviously much higher than this, and even Tutankhamun's tomb in the photo should be slightly higher than here.

Maybe this is a blind trick that was set up in the first place?

possible!

You can't destroy the mural, you can only experiment with your fists.

This Sanchez and old Zamorano are experts, and a group of people are smashing three walls, even Charlize Theron is no exception, knocking on the side of the experiment, causing the two old miners to shout in Spanish. .

"Everyone stop, it's too noisy, let Sanchez come."

Guan Xingquan understood these sentences, which meant "stop".

He said smoothly: "Qiu Bo, ask an interpreter to come in."

Qiu Bo walked out quickly, and the two old miners carefully knocked over with their fists.

It wasn't until Qiu Bo called the translator in that the two of them were done.

Sanchez said: "Boss, the walls are all solid, and at least one or two meters should be stone.

It's hard to say that it's deeper. Professional equipment is needed, but I didn't bring it this time. "

After listening to what the translator said, Guan Xingquan, who was watching, nodded: He also seemed to understand the general idea.

It's solid and hollow, I said it many times in the tomb of Mastaba, Guan Boss remembers it.

Hearing that, I stomped the ground hard: I don’t need two Sanchez to try, and I can hear that the bottom is solid~www.readwn.com~ I blinked twice, and when I looked up, I saw the side face of the boss on the ceiling. .

Zhang Nan smiled.

"How low it is, it's too close, I can't see it clearly!"

Smiling a little thief, he stood on tiptoe, couldn't knock the top board, almost.

"Wenbo."

Clementine is 1.95 meters tall, so knocking on the ceiling is much more convenient than Zhang Nan.

The three walls are solid and the ground is okay. The problem may be on the top of the head!

After knocking, Clementine could not hear it, but the two Chileans on one side said loudly: "Empty, it's empty!"

There should be a large stone slab on the top, which is very thick, probably more than forty or fifty centimeters. "

Zhang Nan smiled.

People's caring thinking is terrible. When ancient tomb robbers found the first tomb enclosed by a stone wall, they must have knocked it out and succeeded.

As for this, an unused, open tomb room, tomb robbers will not spend a lot of time here.

Tomb robbery is not archeology. I am eager and cautious. How can there be so much idle time.

Moreover, starting from general thinking, the secret rooms are all level. How many would think there is a problem on the top of the head?

Besides, Zhang Nan, who is 1.82 meters tall, can't knock on the zenith here, and the ancient Egyptian tomb robbers who are less than 1.6 meters on average will not knock: the paintings above are still gods, and the ancient Egyptians are even tomb robbers. Thieves, I guess they wouldn't hit the heads of the gods with fists or hard objects.

The ancient Egyptians really believed in gods too.

Of course, the people who destroyed this pyramid may also be foreigners. Ancient Egypt may have been ruled by foreigners many times, and the people who destroyed this pyramid should also be foreigners.

But there was the stolen tomb, and this intact tomb that was obviously unused as a cover, and it was normal to not discover the secret above the head.

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