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Chapter 28 The British and French Expedition Sixty Years Ago

It turns out that the connection between the Black family and this temple is so deep.

How many families are involved in this mess? The Yin family and the Li family now have another Black family. And Sir Black just used the expression "the only one who came back", which means that his uncle failed to come back.

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"My uncle was very young back then. He made a girlfriend who studied archeology and followed her to Egypt. The surname Black represents wealth and status, and along with it comes the family's expectations for an heir. My uncle was relatively lucky.

, my father was the heir. So as the second son, he was able to wander outside for many years. But my father died when I was very young, and my uncle had to come back from Egypt to live the life he wanted.

.I have liked him very much since I was a child, because he is much more interesting than my father, and he will take me to play.

Sixty years ago, I was twelve years old, which is my birth year as you Chinese would say. Christmas was coming, and my uncle was going out again. I asked him where he was going, and he said he was going to Egypt. I pestered him to take me there. Then

Uncle Shi found clues to the two temples from the Temple of Horus. He organized an expedition team to go to the desert to find the temples in the records. But because I was young, my uncle refused to take me there.

Walking deep into the desert. Finally, they put me in a village in the desert and asked me to wait for him to come back. But he didn't come back."

Everyone was silent.

It is estimated that this matter is of great importance to entering the desert, otherwise Sir Black would never be willing to tell us about his family. Even after decades, he is still unable to let go of his uncle's death.

"I believe you noticed in the Temple of Horus that two temples were mentioned there."

Meng Weiqing said: "We have not seen records about other temples, but there were originally a few lines of inscriptions under the Eye of Horus, but they were erased."

Lord Black thought for a moment and motioned for us to look at the rubbings.

"After my father passed away, my uncle brought these drawings with him when he came back from Egypt. Later, when he went to the desert, he left these drawings with me. I asked him what he was looking for, and he said he would tell me when he got back.

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During the decades I have been in Egypt, I have been trying to figure out what my uncle was looking for. When I was young, I thought about visiting the temples in the records, but now it seems there is no chance. So.

I am helping you this time so that you can fulfill my wish when I was young."

Teacher Bai asked a question.

"Excuse me, why were rubbings used at that time? I have seen the French team's data from the same period, and most of them are still in the form of photos."

Sir Black nodded: "I have asked my uncle this question before. He has never supported rubbings because they would damage the murals themselves. These were secretly rubbed by people from the Egypt Exploration Society, and my uncle took them over after he found out.

But he seems to have said that not everything can be illuminated."

Sir Black said that his uncle would not destroy cultural relics. This was also something he learned from his girlfriend who studied archeology. In fact, his uncle also established a foundation specifically for the protection of cultural relics in Egypt. Now every year Black still...

Putting money in it.

We looked at these rubbings in silence.

There are all the murals in the Temple of Horus, but the zodiac picture that Teacher Bai is particularly concerned about only has a hand-drawn version and is not clear. Moreover, this zodiac picture is different from the ones commonly seen in Egyptian temples.

But I have never done any research in this area, so I gave up after just two glances.

Sir Black motioned for us to look at the rubbing in front of Han Jiangxue again.

This is an inscription from the Temple of Horus. It does not look too big on the wall of the temple, and now it is spread out to cover half a table. The rubbing starts from under the Eye of Horus.

, the part where Thutmose III carried the sacrifice to the nameless god was completely expanded. It said what we saw that day:

[Thutmose III offered the bones of Seth to the noble god XX

The gods gave him strength and stability]

The difference is that the inscription that was scratched off in the temple yesterday has been clearly carved out here:

[Beyond the horizon, I built two thousand-year-old temples for you

Osiris and Seth guard your glory, and time cannot harm you in the slightest]

Lord Blake translated these two inscriptions.

Among the people here, only Meng Weiqing, Teacher Bai, Lou Shiqi and I had been to the Temple of Horus. Everyone turned their attention to us.

But even adding the following inscription only makes the unknown more unknown. Beyond the horizon is not a guiding sign at all.

But at least we know that these inscriptions were still there when the French and British went there more than 70 years ago. So the question now is, who went there after them and erased the inscriptions behind them. Why?

What is it again?

Teacher Bai spoke again: "Do you think the Bone of Seth refers to this sacrifice? If so, what is this sacrifice?"

Teacher Bai didn't say anything about our guesses about the sacrifice yesterday, we just waited for Sir Black's opinion. I don't know when everyone accepted that Teacher Bai was the one who grasped the problem.

Sir Black didn't make any excuses: "Although the theory of the Bones of Seth is rare, it is not a too obscure concept. The ancient Egyptians did not know where the metal under the desert came from, and because they believed that all the gods were

Golden body, so the metal found in the desert is called the bones of Seth, the god of the desert. Although it has not been confirmed, I think the bones of Seth probably refer to metal. In fact, regarding metal as a god

Descriptions of temple offerings have appeared in other temples."

Hearing what he said, we were all a little curious.

"Some precious metals were regarded as precious items in ancient Egypt, so it was normal to use them as sacrifices during sacrifices. Moreover, the temple priests also played the role of redistributing the sacrifices. In this case, the so-called dedication

In fact, the sacrifices given to the gods are likely to be used for other purposes. As a priest and a pharaoh with strong military capabilities, Thutmose III would not be surprised to see metal objects as sacrifices in the temples he built. It’s just that we are now

We don’t know anything about the objects of sacrifice and can only speculate based on customs. But as you have also noticed, the order of the Temple of Horus is very different from that of Egypt.”

Sir Black's analysis makes sense, but it doesn't really answer what the sacrifice and the Bone of Seth are. He doesn't even say that the Bone of Seth is the sacrifice.

Teacher Bai pointed with his hand at the location of the sacrifice on the rubbing, and then asked Sir Black: "It is true that we found some unusual places in the Temple of Horus. Have you noticed this place? I saw it yesterday.

At that time, I had some doubts, and I felt that there were some messy lines on this offering, as if it had been redrawn."

Our attention turned to the plate of sesame candies.

This rubbing work by the Egyptian Exploration Society is very fine, even the fine lines are shown. If you look carefully, you can indeed see some messy carvings on the sacrifice. Teacher Bai only looked at it in very dim light yesterday.

After passing the mural, he just glanced at the rubbing paper, but he was able to find such details immediately. This ability of observation is really amazing.

"I have been looking at these rubbings for decades, and I remember every part. I am also aware of the problem Mr. Bai mentioned. However, with my ability, I cannot answer it. The answer to this question may still require your investigation.

." Lord Black said, "Although I can't answer this question, I have found something in the past few decades."

Everyone listened with bated breath.

"After I found two temples on the rubbings, I went to investigate. Since there are no official documentary records, there are thousands of temples in Egypt, and finding them is like looking for a needle in a haystack. I searched for a while and also funded

Some archaeological teams, but the harvest was limited. Later, by chance, I discovered some people who had been living in the local area. They had been living on this land since thousands of years ago. It was not easy to deal with them. It took me more than 20 years to

Gain their trust. But fortunately, I know the whereabouts of the first temple, which is in the Valley of the Kings. But only those who know can find it. Those people are the people who have always lived on this land and were taken over by ancient Egypt.

People blessed by the gods.”

Lord Black told us that the temple in the Valley of the Kings is called the Temple of All Knowing. It is said that those who find this temple can receive guidance.

"A local in Abydos (equivalent to Jerusalem in ancient Egypt) told me that he heard from the elders in his family that there would be unusual celestial phenomena in Egypt every sixty years. The last time that kind of celestial phenomenon happened

At that time, my uncle and his friends went into the desert and never came back. But my uncle was not the only one who failed to come back that time."

Sir Black told us these things that he had been searching for decades to hear.

"You may meet them, the people who are guarded by the gods. You may become the ones who continue to write this story. Sixty years ago I was too young, and sixty years later I will be too old. If you come back

, remember to tell me the ending of the story. I don’t have the next sixty years."

No one spoke for a while.

The silence lasted for a while, and then Meng Weiqing asked: "Then do you know when that celestial phenomenon will occur every sixty years?"

"That's why I asked you to come here today." Sir Black said, "Tomorrow night you will be able to see the first day of that unusual celestial phenomenon."

The first day of unusual celestial phenomena?

We exchanged glances with each other. Except for Meng Weiqing and Teacher Bai who did not join in our silent communication, we all saw the same puzzlement in the eyes of everyone else.

Co-author: This unusual situation is like the Jewish Hanukkah, will it last for several days?

I don’t know why Sir Black is telling us this. Is it just because he hopes to use our power to achieve his wish? I can’t see it. With Sir Black’s financial resources, influence and persistence, the Sahara Desert should have been turned over long ago.

It's all over the place. And we can't tell whether the information he gave us is true or false.

According to Sir Blake, one of the two "thousand-year temples" built by Thutmose III for the nameless god recorded in the nameless temple underneath our construction site is the [Temple of Omniscientity]. Although the location of the Valley of the Kings is indeed

It can be regarded as [beyond the horizon] of the living, but this kind of thing is not how to say it exists.

Lord Black was not bothered by our display of distrust.

"You are not the only ones who have found me. A few days ago, a Russian boy came with a group of Americans. They got the news from other channels and will also look for the [Omniscient Temple] tomorrow night. I will

I tell you this, not Americans, for my own reasons. Forgive me for not being able to tell you now. You may not trust me, but I have been searching for this matter for decades. My whole life and my health

It’s all here.”

Having said this, he tapped his leg.

"I just wanted to find my uncle and take him home. He gave me everything I had, but he left me in the desert and never came back."

The old man closed his eyes tiredly. But he did not let himself be immersed in emotions for too long. When he looked at us again, he was determined to be the proud British aristocrat who had been trapped in a foreign desert for decades for his purpose.

At this time, his arrogant and reserved aristocratic spirit came out.

"If you don't trust me, go to the Valley of the Kings tomorrow."

In fact, when I heard Sir Black talk about it, I was afraid that he might hate him out of love. But when Black mentioned his uncle, he did not use the past tense [was] but always the present tense [is], as if his uncle was still alive. This feeling did not

That's true. But Sir Black is already over seventy years old, and even if his uncle is still alive, he is still in his dying years. It is very likely that what we brought back this time is just the remains of old Black.

This time it was Teacher Bai who broke the silence. He asked Sir Black about the relationship between the Temple of Horus and the temple in the Valley of the Kings and the moon, and asked me to tell me what I found in the tomb of Thutmose III.

Already.

After hearing that we speculated that the temple's sacrificial time may correspond to the moon phase from "the left eye of Horus" and other divine elements related to the moon, Sir Black smiled and said: "You have discovered it too. Indeed,

I also think these are related to the moon. The moon also played a very important role in the Egyptian worldview, and the birth of many gods was due to the bet between Thoth and Khonsu."

Khonsu is a child during the new moon and the most powerful adult during the full moon. He is also called a traveler and travels across the sky every day. Although everyone does not know much about ancient Egypt.

, but I have heard of this mythical story before, and it doesn’t need too much explanation.

Teacher Bai raised another point: "Can I ask you another question? I remember that the zodiac reliefs I saw on the ceiling of the Temple of Horus yesterday were different from those in other places. What if

I understand correctly. The zodiac diagrams in ancient Egyptian temples and tombs are star diagrams based on a combination of astronomical observations and local religious systems. Although it cannot be said that it can be completely understood using modern astronomy, there are traces to follow. However, the Dutch

But the one in the Temple of Rus cannot be explained by natural phenomena."

None of us noticed the question raised by Teacher Bai.

As he said, Lord Black has a very thorough understanding of the Temple of Horus. "The zodiac diagram that Mr. Bai mentioned was also rubbed by the French archaeological team at that time. Although it is not preserved now.

Down, but I have been lucky enough to see it. It is indeed different from other places.

Although you may have noticed it, I would like to remind you one thing here. As we all know, the zodiac chart was actually brought to Egypt after Alexander the Great's Eastern Expedition. It was during the Greco-Roman period, that is, around the third century BC. However,

This Temple of Horus was built by Thutmose III, more than a thousand years before the Greeks came to Egypt."

I was completely unaware of this time discrepancy.

After Lord Black said this, I was completely stunned.

How can this be?

Egyptologists including Champollion have always recognized that the Egyptian zodiac chart was influenced by Greece, and archaeological discoveries have also proved that the carvings and paintings of star charts did not appear until after the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

But why does this temple, which dates back to more than 1,400 BC, have astrological images from a thousand years later?

Yesterday I went to Qiulixiang to buy dried chestnuts, thinking about sending them to my grandparents. The subway had to transfer to three lines, and it only took more than 20 minutes to ride there, so I rode there.

Grandma heard that I came here by bicycle and said: Why are you so revolutionary?

The sense of age is coming hhhhh

(End of chapter)