Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 80 Invitation from the Louvre

"Thank you! It's really troublesome for you." After receiving the pile of letters.Liang En smiled and nodded, then returned to his room with the letters.

After returning to the room, he opened the letters one by one, and found that except two letters were advertisements and bills, the rest of the letters came from a series of museums such as the British Imperial Museum, the Hermitage Museum in Russia, and the Louvre Museum in France. Department of Ancient Egyptian Antiquities.

Obviously, the translation of some common words in ancient Egyptian in Liang En's third thesis suddenly attracted a group of experts in this field, so they wrote to ask about this aspect.

In addition to the request that the two sides can communicate with each other, almost every letter is accompanied by a few photos of ancient Egyptian characters, and it is indicated that Liang En can help translate the content in the photos.

It is not difficult to translate these ancient Egyptian texts written on papyrus and carved on wood or stone slabs, so Liang En quickly translated all the above things and followed them one by one according to the email address on the letter Sent it.

As a result, when he sent the last translation, the e-mail box rang.After clicking on the e-mail in the mailbox, he unexpectedly found that Dr. Louis, the curator of the Egyptian Museum of the Louvre, had written back to him.

"Are the French moving so fast?" Looking at this email, Liang En's eyes widened suddenly, because it was definitely not as efficient as he had imagined the French to do things.

Of course, Liang En didn't know that his article had been read and highly recognized by the group of French Egyptology experts in the Louvre before it was published, so the other party kept staring at Liang En's mailbox, as long as there was any movement, they would reply.

The content of this email is very interesting because it is an invitation letter.Invite Liang En to participate in an archaeological mission to Egypt in two weeks.

Obviously, because Liang En's theses have shown his attainments in ancient Egyptian.These people from the Louvre Museum of Ancient Egypt will send him an invitation to go to Egypt for on-site archaeology.

Most people imagine archeology as searching for buried treasure and traveling to exotic places.Use your toothbrush and dentist's tools to carefully dig a little bit out of the soil.

But in fact, most of the time in archaeology, those archaeologists don't know how to do it, and naturally they have nothing in common with their counterparts on the silver screen like Indiana Jones.

To take the simplest example, anything you find in these formal archaeological efforts does not and should not belong to the discoverer.The most valuable part will be sent to national or regional museums for public exhibition.

But most of it ends up in a box or a bag, stored in a local museum, university, or whatever, for those scholars to study.

From an archaeological point of view, those after-the-fact studies are more important than the excavation work.A 6-7 week excavation may require scholars to study for two years or even longer before the research results can be published.

That is to say, if Liang En is willing to go to Egypt to participate in this archaeological operation, it is basically impossible for him to obtain any economic benefits.Considering that he was also unable to engage in his own work during this period, it was equivalent to losing money.

But on the other hand, participating in these archaeological works is conducive to the improvement of his personal reputation, which is very important for many things to come.

More importantly, if he really found some important relics in history, then even if he didn't get anything materially, the cards he got would be enough to make him feel that running this time is not a loss.

More importantly, because of the subtle differences between the two worlds.Therefore, several countries in this world have conditionally opened certain regulations related to personal treasure hunting.So Liang En still had a chance to take some treasures from this area.

Of course, the reason why Liang En did this was entirely because he had that set of magical cards.So you are fully qualified to find all kinds of treasures without violating any laws.

After making up his mind, Liang En walked out of his room and discussed the matter with Fan Meng.Because Liang En was invited as a scholar.The scholars who are generally invited are not only celebrities, but also tend to be older.

So in this case, in addition to giving the scholar himself a place, the inviting party will also give them one or two student places.

And out of the consideration of treating everyone equally, even though Liang En was young and not well-known, the other party still gave him a quota of entourage including food, lodging and travel expenses.

"Of course I want to go there with you, isn't this what we made an appointment in advance?" Fan Meng said directly after hearing this, "And I am familiar with North Africa, maybe I can help you .”

Because the French colonies were mainly concentrated in West Africa and North Africa back then, the other party's national interests in Africa were basically concentrated there.In this case, the foreign legion is often deployed in this area.

Therefore, during Fan Meng's previous service, his overseas deployments were basically completed in the Sahara Desert and nearby areas, so he is naturally familiar with a large area including Egypt.

After finalizing the personnel, Liang En faxed copies of the passports of the two to the Louvre Museum.

The biggest benefit of this trip for them is that the Louvre Museum will help them with all the procedures without having to worry about it themselves.

Ten days later, the two people who were ready dragged two large suitcases and flew straight to Paris, France to join the scientific expedition team of the Louvre Museum.

At the beginning, they worried that their luggage would cause dissatisfaction from others.

It turned out that after the reunion, it was discovered that the archaeological team of the Louvre Museum had a lot of luggage. The combination of wooden boxes and iron boxes with lead seals on them could fill a standard small container.

"This time we will take a batch of carry-on luggage and take the plane directly to Egypt and start the preliminary investigation work, and these large luggage will be transported to Marseille by train, and then directly shipped to Egypt."

After Liang En met with the archaeological team, a young staff member named Bernard told him about the process, "So if you have any big things that are difficult to carry, you can send them directly with these things."

"Thank you, but we don't have much stuff, so it should be no problem to carry it with you." Liang En said with a smile. "By the way, I know that I didn't say the location of this investigation out of confidentiality before, so I should be able to say it now."

"Sorry, no one knows the location of this investigation except Mr. Jacques, the team leader." Bernard shrugged helplessly. "Because we want to prevent some illegal diggers from reaching the target before us."

"Okay, I understand." Liang En nodded and said, and then handed his list of supplies to Mr. Bernard.

"You did the right thing. At least I hope to find something of real value this time, instead of helping a group of tomb robbers clean up the mess."

"Thank you for your understanding." Bernard took the list with a smile. "Of course, there are still some things that can be revealed. For example, our target this time is a ruins of an Egyptian fortress near the mouth of the Nile—"

(End of this chapter)