Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 83 Discovery and Commencement

"I bought a broken piece of mud in a plastic bag for 8000 euros. This is really unimaginable." When he walked out of the souvenir shop with Liang En, Fan Meng said with a look of surprise.

You should know that the average monthly salary of programmers who belong to the upper middle income in France last year was 3640 euros. That is to say, this pile of debris is equivalent to more than two months’ salary of a programmer. small amount.

"Because I think there are some valuable things in this thing." Liang En shook the plastic bag in his hand and said, "If you can piece together a relatively complete clay tablet from it, the 8000 Euros will be spent value."

It was already dark when they returned to the hotel, so the two of them went upstairs to the room immediately after eating in the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel to play a jigsaw puzzle game.

Most of the things in this plastic bag are really just a small piece of ordinary clay tablet fragments, even mixed with some fakes made in modern times, it is not wrong to sell them as souvenirs to tourists.

Of course, Liang En didn't buy this bag of fragments simply to pick out some souvenirs. Soon, he followed the white light and picked out more than a dozen fragments, large and small, from the pile of fragments.

Putting together a dozen pieces is naturally not as difficult as putting together hundreds of pieces here, so in a short period of time, Liang En and Fan Meng pieced together a clay tablet the size of an adult male's palm.

"There is actually a complete clay tablet inside." After putting it together, Fan Meng looked at the clay tablet in surprise and said, "By the way, what is written on this clay tablet?"

"Don't worry, let me take a look. Fortunately, I understand Akkadian—" Liang En said, picked up a pen and paper, and began to translate the words on the clay board bit by bit.

"This should be the fifth of the 12 clay tablets in the Epic of Gilgamesh." Liang En gradually translated the contents of the clay tablet as he wrote and drew.

"The first part of the article says that Gilgamesh and Enkidu entered the cedar forest together, and with the help of the sun god Shamash, they killed Humbaba, the god of weirdness."

"And the next part of the article writes that the two of them cut down a lot of cedar logs here to make a raft, and then carried the cedar trees used to build the temple and Humbaba's head, and returned to Uruk along the Euphrates River. -"

Liang En said that he connected to the Internet with his laptop, and compared it with the version translated by a professor of Oxford University more than ten years ago on the Internet. Soon, he discovered the content recorded on the clay tablet in his hand. Will be some more.

The extra content is mainly concentrated at the beginning of the article. Unlike the existing version, the content recorded on the clay tablet in Liang En's hand contains some more descriptions of the sounds that the two people heard after entering the forest, including birds chirping, insects, etc. Ming and ape cry and so on.

Clearly, this clay tablet is an important addition to a world-class literary classic written 3000 years ago.

And just when Liang En figured out the identity of this clay tablet, he got three new cards.Two of them are the common [Detection (N)], and the last one is a newly obtained R-level card this time, [Poetry Singing (R)]

[Poetry singing (R): In the oldest age, only a few people mastered all kinds of characters, so for most people, the only way to get information is through word of mouth.

Therefore, in that era, bards were an indispensable part of the entire society, and they could play an important role in information connection, keeping the entire society alive to a certain extent.

Strengthening card (one-time), consumption of this card can allow the user to gain a certain degree of talent in various ancient folk song singing, and quickly learn various poetry singing. 】

"I don't see any useful abilities for the time being, but anyway, I don't see that there will be an upper limit for this skill, so it's not a bad thing to learn a little more."

After choosing this card and using it, Liang En felt that there was a little more inexplicable things in his mind.Although it doesn't seem to be useful for the time being, getting a new ability is not a bad thing after all.

The next day was the time to visit the pyramids collectively. Unlike many people imagined, the pyramids were not built in a desolate desert, but in the Giza area of ​​Cairo.

"Just like a local saying, humans are afraid of time, and time is afraid of pyramids!" Standing on the sand and looking at the huge pyramid in front of him, Liang En subconsciously sighed.

It's a pity that the pyramid was hollowed out 3000 years ago, and even the tomb robbers of that year have become important archaeological objects for people today.

Moreover, those ancient Egyptians also had a lot of experience in the recycling of objects. At least yesterday, Liang En saw in the museum that there were several pharaohs in a coffin.

After returning to the hotel after the day's pure travel, Fan Meng asked Liang En for [-] euros at night, saying that he was buying something for self-defense, and then left. He didn't return until more than two hours later.

Early the next morning, everyone got up early and drove to Alexandria to pick up the supplies needed for this archaeology.After the counting was over at noon, they drove straight to the city of Rashid, which is located at the western mouth of the Nile Delta.

When the Nile reaches the north of Cairo, it becomes two rivers, the Damietta River in the east and the Rashid River in the west.The two rivers flow into the sea separately and never meet again.The Rashid River passes through a small city, Rashid, before it flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

Today the city is an inconspicuous seaside town with a population of just over 4.However, compared with the Europeanized Cairo and Alexandria, the city is full of Arabic and Ottoman styles.

Unlike today's depression, from the Mamluks in the Middle Ages to the Ottoman Empire, Rashid has always been the largest port city in Egypt during the rule of the Arab Turks.

During this period, Egypt, as the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, naturally became a transit point for trade between the East and the West. Oriental wealth such as spices from India and porcelain from China were first brought here, and then brought to RNY and Venice by sailors.

In this way, the prosperity of Port Rashid in that era can be imagined, but in contrast, Alexandria in the same era was neglected.

However, with the development of technology, the ships are getting bigger and bigger.The port of Rashid, which is located at the mouth of the river and is often silted up, cannot hold large ships because of the shallow water depth, and it has gradually become depressed over time.

Therefore, when Liang En and the others drove into the urban area, they found that the whole city did not have many traces of modernization, as if time had stayed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Because each of them brought a lot of things, after leaving Alexandria, everyone's transportation changed from a bus to a pickup and truck. After entering the urban area, the radio on the car rang.

"We don't stop here, and go directly to our destination, Kebay Castle." The voice of Professor Jacques, the leader of the team, came from the radio.

"Also, follow the instructions on the road for a while, and you will do whatever I call, this place is not so safe."

"It seems that this place is not as safe as the tourist brochure says." After finishing the call, Liang En, who was sitting in the co-pilot seat, sighed, and then asked Fan Meng who was driving. "Where are those self-defense things you bought yesterday?"

"It's in the storage box in front of you." Fan Meng said while holding the steering wheel. "These things may not be so legal, so it's better to cover up a little bit when you need to carry them on your body for a while."

(End of this chapter)