Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

In fact, Liang En felt something was wrong after he concluded that the man was in shock due to malnutrition. Because with the modern level of development, malnutrition in such a big city is not as easy as imagined.

More importantly, although the clothes on this man were a bit old, they were not of poor quality and looked neat. He did not look like a homeless man.

"He is a student." Soon, Liang En got a student ID card from this person. Judging from the photo, it should belong to this person. The man's name was Daniel, a senior studying at University College London.

After realizing that the other person was a student, Liang En and Fan Meng decided to take Daniel to their car for the next step of treatment.

Maybe it was because the coma was not very deep, so after putting the other person on the car seat and feeding him some energy drinks, the other person slowly woke up.

"Did you save me? Thank you." After looking at Liang En and Fan Meng, Daniel immediately understood what Liang En and the others had done before, and thanked them in a weak tone.

"You sit here and rest for a while." Liang En signaled the other party to calm down for the time being, and then asked him why he fainted in this situation.

As he told it, Liang En slowly figured out why this young man appeared in the alley just now, and why he fainted.

It turns out that Daniel is an international student from Egypt. His hometown is located in a barren place in the Sinai Peninsula. With his own hard work and talent, he successfully obtained a full scholarship in the UK.

A person with a full scholarship would not be in such a miserable situation, but because he hopes to help his hometown, he usually saves a lot of money in those expenses to help his hometown.

As for why he appeared in that alley this time, it was very simple, because his hometown needed some solar cookers, and he couldn't afford new ones, so he planned to try his luck at a second-hand store.

What he didn't expect was that the security situation in a place without any surveillance video was not very good. Two robbers with obvious racial tendencies attacked him in the dark.

If he hadn't called for help in time and if Fan Meng happened to pass by and drew his sword to help, let alone the money, he might not even be able to save his life if he was unlucky.

"Okay, let's eat something first." At this moment, Daniel's abdomen made a gurgling sound. Liang En immediately realized that both he and Daniel were hungry now.

"I have the meal I just brought for you." Fan Meng took out a sandwich from a bag he carried and handed it to Liang En and said, then picked up another sandwich and looked at Daniel with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Sorry, because these are for my companions, these sandwiches have bacon in them—"

"It's okay, I can eat." Daniel said and opened the sleeve of his left arm, revealing a cross tattoo. “I am Egyptian but also a Coptic.”

The Copts are the descendants of the Egyptians who converted to Christianity in the first century. They are also the largest Christian ethnic group in the entire Middle East today, accounting for about 15% of the total population of Egypt today.

The name Coptic comes from Arabic and is the Arab name for Egypt, while Copts are the unified name for the indigenous people of Egypt at that time, who were the direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians.

It's just that today, even though their education and urbanization levels are higher than other Egyptian compatriots, they still have celebrities like former United Nations Secretary-General Ghali. But he is still marginalized in his home country.

After Liang En obtained the memory of Champollion, he had a certain understanding of this ethnic minority, because the most important key to deciphering ancient Egyptian is the language of this ethnic group, Coptic.

Unfortunately, due to the change of rulers, Arabic became the only designated official language in Egypt, and Coptic subsequently withered. So now Coptic is only retained as a religious language in this religious ceremony.

But for dead languages, becoming a religious language is the best way to preserve the ancient language. In addition to Coptic, Latin is also preserved to this day in this way.

In fact, Liang En should have realized that he was a Coptic when he saw the name Daniel, because the name Daniel is obviously related to Christianity.

An ordinary Egyptian should generally be called by a name similar to Maimaiti, just like the Turkish uncle Liang En met before.

After logging into the school's official website and confirming Daniel's identity, Liang En and Fan Meng decided to drive him back to school. On the way, they learned a lot of interesting information from Daniel.

"Where do you think you have ancient ruins?" Liang En immediately asked when Daniel said he found some writings when shepherding sheep when he was a child.

"Yes, I still carry with me the gadgets that a few of us young people picked up when we were adventuring along the wadi. I thought I could sell them for a good price in London, but those people were only willing to offer one or two hundred pounds. price."

As he spoke, Daniel took out several small, gray-looking things from his arms. Because he had seen the marks on the car before and knew what Liang En and the others were doing, and he also knew that neither Liang En nor Fan Meng had any ill intentions towards him.

"This is indeed a product of ancient Egypt, but the problem is that it is not that good in terms of quality or carving level." After taking a closer look, Liang En shook his head and said.

"One or two hundred pounds does bully you as a foreigner, but the purchase price of three hundred pounds is already top-notch, and even if it is auctioned, it will not exceed 500 pounds."

The reason why Liang En could come to such a conclusion was that although the five or six items in front of him could clearly be seen as coming from ancient Egypt, it could also be seen that these jewelry were all made of cheap materials.

For example, although the scarab, which is about the size of the tip of your thumb, looks like it is made of lapis lazuli, it is actually made of clay covered with blue glaze.

Other jewelry is a similar product, using cheap colored glass and glazed clay instead of gemstones.

This was actually a very common practice in ancient Egyptian times, especially in the making of amulets of all kinds. The reason why this happened is that for the ancient Egyptians, amulets were a necessity.

But the problem is that rich people can afford lapis lazuli or turquoise to use in making their amulets, but poor people simply can't afford it, so this cheap substitute naturally appears.

"Is it really only worth a few hundred pounds?" Daniel seemed a little depressed. After all, he still hoped that these things could solve some problems in his hometown. "I think these things are at least a few thousand years old."

"You're right, these things are indeed very old. But from an economic point of view, the older the things are, the more valuable they are." After seeing that there was still some distance to the destination, Liang En did some simple science research. knowledge in this area.

"Don't worry, brother, he is Liang En who deciphered ancient Egyptian text a while ago. His level of ancient Egyptian research can be said to be one of the best in the UK among his age group." After Liang En finished speaking, Fan Meng also supported him. arrive.