Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 138 Copts
In fact, Liang En also felt something was wrong after making the judgment that this person was in shock due to malnutrition.Because with the modern level of development, it is not as simple as imagined to be malnourished in such a big city.

More importantly, although the clothes on this person were a bit old, the quality was not bad, and they looked neat, not like the kind of homeless bum.

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

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

It may be because the degree of coma is not very deep, so after putting the other party on the seat of the car and feeding some energy drinks, the other party 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.

"Sit here and rest for a while." Liang En signaled the other party to calm down for the time being, and then asked why he passed out under such circumstances.

With his narration, Liang En slowly figured out why this young man appeared in the alley just now, and the reason why he passed out.

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 hard work and talent, he successfully obtained a full scholarship from the UK.

Originally, a person with a full scholarship would not be so miserable, but because he hopes to help his hometown, he usually saves a lot of money from those expenses to help his hometown.

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

What he didn't expect was that the law and order in the place without any surveillance video was not very good, and two robbers who were clearly racially discriminatory attacked him in the dark.

If he hadn't called for help in time and Fan Meng just passed by and drew his sword to help, let alone money, maybe even his life would be unlucky.

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

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

"Sorry, since these are for my companions, there's bacon in these sandwiches—"

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

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

The name Coptic comes from Arabic, which is what the Arabs call Egypt, and Coptic is a unified name for the native Egyptians at that time, that is, the direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians.

It's just that today, even if their education level and urbanization level are higher than those of other Egyptian compatriots, they have produced celebrities like former UN Secretary-General Ghali.Yet they remain marginalized in their home countries.

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

It is a pity that because of the change of rulers, Arabic became the only designated official language in Egypt, and Coptic then withered.So now the Coptic language is limited to this religious ceremony and preserved as a religious language.

But for a dead language, becoming a religious language is the best way to preserve an 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 after seeing the name Daniel, because the name Daniel was obviously related to Christianity.

And an ordinary Egyptian should generally have a name similar to Mamat, just like the Turkish uncle Liang En met before.

After logging onto the school's official website to confirm Daniel's identity, Liang En and Fan Meng decided to drive him back to school. On the way, they heard a lot of interesting news from Daniel.

"Where do you think you have ancient ruins?" Hearing Daniel mention that he found some writings while herding sheep when he was young, Liang En asked immediately.

"Yes, I still have some trinkets that some of us young people picked up when we ventured along the dry river. I thought I could sell them for a good price in London, but those people are only willing to open one or two hundred pounds. price."

As he spoke, Daniel took out a few dusty-looking little things from his arms.Because he saw 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 malicious intentions towards him.

"This is indeed a product of ancient Egypt, but the problem is that it's really not very good in terms of quality or carving level." Liang En shook his head and said after looking carefully.

"One or two hundred pounds is indeed bullying 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 Liang En was able to come to such a conclusion was because although the five or six items in front of him could clearly be seen to have come from ancient Egypt, it could also be seen that these jewelry were all made of cheap materials.

For example, the thumb-tip-sized scarab looks like it's made of lapis lazuli, but it's actually fired clay with a blue glaze.

The rest of the jewelry was a similar product, with cheap stained glass and glazed clay instead of gems.

This is actually a very common practice in ancient Egypt, especially in the making of various amulets.The reason for this situation is that for the ancient Egyptians, amulets were a rigid need.

But the problem is that rich people can afford lapis lazuli or turquoise to make their amulets, but poor people can't afford it at all, so this cheap substitute naturally appeared.

"Is it really only worth a few hundred pounds?" Daniel looked a little depressed. After all, he still hoped that these things could solve some things 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, it's not that older things are more valuable--" After seeing that there was still a distance to the destination, Liang En gave a brief introduction knowledge in this area.

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

(End of this chapter)