Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Early the next morning, Liang En took these things to Pierce's shop. Because to him, the things he bought from the antique store yesterday were useless after the experiment, so he had to get rid of these things as soon as possible even if the price was halved.

"Lawrence, you're here. I want to call you now." After entering the store, Pierce held the phone in his hand with a smile on his face.

"What's the matter?" Liang En asked curiously after putting the schoolbag containing the things on the counter. "Did you sell the Hummingbird pistol and want to pay back the money quickly?"

"No, of course not." Pierce shook his head and said, "But I have contacted a nobleman's private auction. If there are no accidents, the gun will be sold within this week."

"A noble private auction, what is that?"

"It's just a group of rich and distinguished people getting together and using the auction as an excuse to socialize, similar to how they hold hunting activities or banquets." Pierce shrugged.

"So unlike ordinary auctions, in this kind of auction, the auction items must not only be rare, but also preferably have some stories behind them, so as to attract those auction participants to donate generously."

"And the process of the Hummingbird pistol you found just suits their taste, so I think it should be able to sell for a good price."

"If it's a story - I think I might have something here that can increase the value of that gun." After hearing what Pierce said, Liang En immediately took out his cell phone.

"When I discovered that mezzanine, I had a hunch that this might be my first big gain since I started in the industry, so I took a few photos to keep as a souvenir -"

"This is simply great, brother." Looking at the photos Liang En took when he discovered the mezzanine, the smile on Pierce's face became brighter and brighter.

"You know, this photo can increase the expected auction price of that Hummingbird pistol by another 5%. For those with money, it is very attractive to find a treasure worth tens of thousands of pounds in a dilapidated cabinet. People’s stories.”

Liang En found the consumption outlook of those wealthy people refreshing. The consumption outlook of these people was not very consistent with that of ordinary people, so if you want to do business with them, it is very necessary to master this knowledge.

In the next few minutes, Liang En handed over most of the things he bought yesterday to Pierce at a price of 150 pounds, but regarding the string of glass beads, Pierce put forward his own opinions.

"If it were just a necklace of trade beads, the beads would be just an ordinary antique. But with this bead from the East, it has become a representative of the ancient trade routes of the Old Continent." Pierce carefully looked at the Warring States Dragonfly Eye, with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Although the price of this thing will not be too high, because of its unique story, I believe it should be able to become an auction item."

"Sounds great, so are you going to put it up for auction?"

"Yes, this kind of thing with a story can often sell for a very good price at auction, so if you are not in a hurry to spend money, you can try putting this thing at auction."

After thinking about it, Liang En decided to sell these things at auction. He doesn't need money urgently now, so it's naturally a good thing to make a little more money.

"By the way, do you have any plans for today?" After handing Liang En the receipt for the glass bead string and 150 pounds in cash, Pierce suddenly asked him.

"There are no special arrangements. It's just that I recently discovered some interesting things while studying ancient languages ​​on my own, so I want to write a few papers and see if I can send them to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association."

This is an important path that Liang En found for his future development after winning the Golden Finger.

Compared with those treasure hunters who dig around with shovels or metal detectors, scholars who can contribute in history and archaeology have easier access to various resources, and it is also conducive to him to use his golden finger. Effect.

When he activated his golden finger before, Shang Boliang's memory gave Liang En a great gift.

Because of the differences between the two worlds, some important artifacts were not discovered. Therefore, Champollion in this world is only a famous pioneer of Eastern archeology and has not engaged in the research of ancient Egyptian history.

Therefore, in this world, the research on ancient Egyptian writing has only advanced to the deciphering of ancient Egyptian numerals and the discovery of the king's name circle by Thomas Young who performed the 'double-slit interference experiment'.

To make matters worse, the current understanding of ancient Egyptian writing in the historical community is more inclined to the view contained in "Egyptian Hieroglyphics", a book about Egyptian hieroglyphics written by Horapollo who lived around 500 AD.

The author discusses in the book that in Egyptian hieroglyphs, the rabbit symbol means "open" because the rabbit's eyes are always open. The vulture symbol means "mother" because all vultures are female.

There is no doubt that almost all of this content is nonsense, but the problem is that it successfully led all subsequent researchers into the ditch. So much so that no one can translate the true content of those ancient Egyptian texts.

To people in this world, ancient Egyptian writing is a dead writing that no one can decipher. But now, Liang En from another world holds the key.

A good first step in this regard is to correct everyone's original misconception that graphic ancient Egyptian writing is a purely ideographic writing.

So for the first paper, he just wanted to prove that ancient Egyptian writing could be used as letters to identify pronunciations by comparing the names in the royal name circle of the kings of the Ptolemaic dynasty.

With such a foundation, he could recreate Champollion's research steps in his mind step by step, and finally decipher ancient Egyptian text in this world.

"What a pity. I originally wanted to go to the bar with you for a drink. It seems I can only have a celebratory drink after the next auction." Naturally, Pierce didn't know Liang En's plan, but he also knew about such academic matters. Far more important than drinking.

Just do it, after returning to the rented house from Pierce. Liang En followed Champollion's thinking and used the ancient Egyptian names of Ptolemy and Cleopatra as examples to speculate that the ancient Egyptian writing method of the two names was to use specific symbols to pronounce them. spell out.

After proposing this idea, he derived the name of Alexander according to the rules of conjecture. Finally, through this method, the names of the known foreign pharaohs in ancient Egypt were derived one by one.

For Liang En, this job is not difficult, but it is very cumbersome.

Fortunately, he had just graduated more than two months ago, so his thesis writing skills were at their peak, and in this Internet age, he could easily find all the information he needed.

So after three days of busy work, he finally finished writing the paper and sent it to the Journal of the British Archaeological Association via email.