Pet King

In fact, in China, when Wei Kang mentioned that this trip to Egypt required cooperation with local archaeologists, Zhang Zi'an thought that it was the archaeologist who discovered the murals or reliefs of the original Egyptian cat traces, and then took them as pictures Wellcome. However, if you think about it, if it is a picture, it does not seem necessary to share it after arriving in Egypt, it can be shared in advance.

So he didn't quite understand what kind of cooperation Hans and Wei Kang referred to.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the appearance and working status of archeologists may refer to Indiana Jones or Laura Crawford. She works hard all day and keeps high levels of adrenaline. She is shocked at every turn. Great discovery of the world.

But in fact, archeological work is extremely boring, and it is a work of patience, let alone find something shocking the world, and even the street gossip tabloids are not necessarily willing to publish it.

As for Laura's hot girl ... emmmmm.

瞅瞅 These rough guys coming down from off-road vehicles are estimated to be male and female.

They set up a tent, set up a table, spread a white cloth on the table, and took out the containers and utensils for each purpose.

Hans introduced: "In fact, because the summer of Egypt is coming, and it is Ramadan, we planned to stop work for two months and talk through the heat, but in order to cooperate with you, we decided to work for a few more days."

"... Thank you." Zhang Zi'an looked at the time. "You guys ... are working now?"

"Well, it's dark in Egypt and it's too hot in the daytime. We all work from afternoon to before dark. Sometimes it's dark and we have to work for a while, mainly to adapt to the working hours of the locals." Egyptians here.

The role of the locals in the team is hard labor and general labor, mainly doing rough work, responsible for excavation work, and simple processing of excavated cultural relics. After all, excavators cannot be used directly as archeological sites.

"Come on, follow me."

Hans gestured to him and motioned him to follow.

Zhang Zi'an was worried that they would disturb Fina, but then found that their place of work was not between the ruins, but the side of the ruins.

The Best Temple covers a large area. Except for the area where the ruins are piled up, a large area around it belongs to the Best Temple.

Hans walked in front, Zhang Zi'an followed, and walked deep and shallow in the wasteland all the way to the east, and finally stopped beside a large pit that was dug open.

When Zhang Zi'an came here, they didn't notice that there was still a large pit on the side. There were a few locals working in the pit. They squatted down and kneeled on the ground. They used small brushes to clean up some cultural relics exposed on the ground, but The surface of the cultural relics is covered with a lot of floating soil, and nothing can be seen. While cleaning the floating soil, they continued to dig down carefully. The movement was very very gentle. At this speed, they might not be able to dig an inch of soil in an hour.

Hans said: "Since you came here for sightseeing, you must like cats very much. In fact, the Best Temple is an important archeological excavation site. Ramesses II carved from red granite has been excavated here. Statues, as well as some other precious cultural relics, including more than 600 cats carved from limestone, most of them are sacrifices dedicated to the goddess Best. "

Zhang Zi'an suddenly remembered that it was rare to meet an authentic and seemingly senior archeologist, and he should ask him if he knew about the cat **** statue.

"Hans, what do you know about gayer-andersoncat? Have similar statues been unearthed here?"

Hans grinned, "Are you interested in that statue? No, no similar statue has been unearthed here. It is said that a huge statue of Best in the former Best Temple was enshrined, but it may have been destroyed by war or man-made Destruction ... You know, in the early 19th century, in order to save time when building a house, the Egyptians directly turned the nearby temple into a quarry and removed the stone from the temple and moved it home. It is known that there are 13 temples. It was so destroyed. "

"It's a pity," Zhang Zi'an shouted.

"However, the best idol enshrined here should look different from gayer-andersoncat." Hans's expression suddenly expressed doubt and uncertainty. "Gayer-andersoncat is really a very strange statue, the only one unearthed so far. A cat **** statue wearing a nose ring. This statue was donated to the British Museum by Major Anderson in 1939. Prior to this, the statue left a photo in Cairo with the earrings worn on it and we now see Are very different. "

According to Hans, in 2007, the British Museum held a grand exhibition on the theme of "Sacred Cats: Dialogue with the Ancient Egyptian Gods" ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Hans, a young man also participated Exhibition.

Before the exhibition began, scientists re-examined and analyzed gayer-andersoncat with new technology and found surprising facts.

Scientists have identified that the statue itself was restored in 1930. The gold nose ring and earrings were not found in the early stages of casting, but were later added for unknown purposes. The nose ring and earrings were cast. The age is less certain, but it must be very old.

Zhang Zi'an heard what he meant. The statue of God is very solemn. There should be rules for how to sculpt. After carving, you should not increase or decrease at will. For example, there was a statue of Lao Shangjun before. To add earrings and nose rings to Taishang Laojun is a disrespectful act of defiance.

This kind of thing is placed in today's China. Everyone can laugh and maybe make an emoticon to spread on the Internet, but the consequences in the ancient times must be serious. Not to mention ancient times, even in Western countries, if someone spoofed the statue of Jesus, it would arouse many people's dislikes.

Apparently, the statue of the cat **** shrouded a cloud of doubts that even scientists and archaeologists were puzzled by.

Zhang Zi'an could have guessed that people who installed nose rings and earrings on the statue of cat god, 80% of those who worship evil and darkness, turned the real statue of cat **** into their beliefs by adding the nose ring and earrings. Evil god.

It was inconvenient for him to tell Hans the inside story, and even if he did, Hans would not believe it. Perhaps one day in the future, archeologists will eventually find new artifacts to solve this mystery.

While talking, a local working in the pit shouted, carefully holding up a long stick-shaped object, and called out, "Come here! Another!"

The man was holding a cat mummy.