Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 85
Professor Jacques' scolding forced Dr. Sharif to stop, but the other party still stared at Liang En with angry eyes from time to time.

In order to avoid such annoying gazes, Liang En temporarily resigned after translating the current batch of content, and then joined Fan Meng who was searching for supplies in the barracks.

"I finally know why that guy is still an assistant researcher in his 40s." Fan Meng commented after Liang En briefly talked about what happened just now.

Because the scope of work includes protecting the safety of Liang En, who is a child of his own, Fan Meng has already collected the public information of everyone in the team before he came. Therefore, as soon as Liang En said it, he probably guessed who it was. what happened.

"This Sharif is a second-generation immigrant just like us, but he is different from our kind of people who can preserve their own nationality. He belongs to the kind of thorough integration. If it is put on us Chinese, it is the standard ABC. There is a kind of conversion. fanatical."

"In fact, what he did reflects what those old Europeans think of you." Fan Meng said, "After all, Egyptology can be regarded as Europe's strength, and it is difficult for them to accept that a non-professional Asian can take the right results."

"Of course, all the other party can do is criticize you verbally or online, and there is no need to worry about safety issues. At least according to the information I found, that guy is just a standard keyboard man."

"You're right, and I didn't take this matter to heart." Liang En shook his head indifferently, and then asked. "By the way, did you find anything of value here just now?"

"I found some stones carved with words, but they look like they are basically just fragments." Fan Meng started to point to the wall and the ground for Liang En as he spoke.

Just like what Fan Meng said, because the craftsmen who built the castle only cared about the size of the stones and did not care about the content carved on it, the content on it was naturally messy and irregular.

After a simple translation, he found that the content was very messy, not only part of the temple tribute list, but also a description of a scene of a certain war.

Obviously, these things should come from multiple ruins, and then they were randomly put together.

After translating all the exposed content, Liang En and Fan Meng expanded the search scope.Considering that the craftsmen were likely to put the side with writing inside, they began to check all the things that looked like stone tablets.

Soon, the two found an interesting object on the floor of a room. It was a semicircular stone. From the arc of the upper half of the arc, it could be seen that it was a carefully crafted stone. out of the stone.

Obviously, if you just use stones to lay the floor, there is no need to process the stones so carefully.Therefore, there is a high probability that this stone is the stone that the builders did not know from which ruins they removed.

"This thing looks like a half stone tablet." After cleaning up the dirt on the surface with a broom, Fan Meng looked at the stone on the ground and said in a guessing tone.

A very interesting fact is that although different civilizations have different development directions.However, when most civilizations carve steles, they make the steles into a shape with the upper circle and the lower part.

Therefore, after seeing the stone on the ground that was equivalent to a large-sized computer screen, Fan Meng's first reaction was that someone should have laid half of the stone tablet on the ground with local bricks.

"Your judgment is very reasonable." Liang En said after looking at it, "If this stone is relatively thick, then the group of construction workers should use this thing to build the city wall, so this should be a relatively thin stone slab .”

"If you add the fine texture of this stone and the fact that it has been polished carefully, then this is likely to be a stone tablet that was pulled from nowhere."

After confirming this, the two dug up.Fortunately, the people who built the castle didn't use much mortar for laying the ground, so they easily dug out the stone from the soil.

This stone is nearly 30cm thick, slightly more than 70cm wide, and nearly half a meter long. It looks like it should be the upper part of a stele.

Turning it over, they found that the round top of the stele was carved with eagle wings, cobras, the sun and gods of ancient Egypt.And these patterns show that the level of this stele is very high, and it is very likely to be related to the royal family.

At least in the ancient Egyptian tradition, the pharaoh was regarded as the incarnation of the sun god.Therefore, if the sun is engraved on the top of the center of the stone tablet town, it means that this stone tablet is either an edict issued by the royal family, or it is simply a record of certain things the royal family did.

Because this stone is granite, plus the side with words, it has been laid down on the floor, so the words on it remain relatively clear.So after cleaning the dust off the top, they found eight lines of hieroglyphs engraved on the stele.

"Let me see what is written on it." After dragging the stele from the dark room to the sunshine in the castle yard, Liang En began to translate the words on it. At this time, many people in the yard They also gathered around to watch.

"—The orthodox heir to the throne of Egypt, the devout believer of the gods, the rebuilder of the Egyptian kingdom and the defender of human civilization, the invincible, the prosperity of Egypt for 30 years, the master of upper and lower Egypt, the son of Ra, eternal life Yes, King Ptolemy, beloved son of Ptah—”

These words are all hieroglyphs in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, so combining the knowledge in his mind, Liang En quickly translated the above content and recited it.

It's just that because it's just a remnant stele, the only information he got from the stele was that a king of the Ptolemaic dynasty donated to the temple.

"You made it up based on the ancient Greek inscriptions carved by several Ptolemaic kings when they donated to the temple—" Just as everyone listened quietly, a piercing voice came from the side come out.

"Anyway, no one here knows what is written in these ancient Egyptian texts, so you only need to change the name of the pharaoh in the king's name circle, and then you can compile a reasonable inscription."

"Mr. Sharif, I repeat, you can accuse me of mistakes, but I hope you can come up with reasonable reasons instead of attacking me personally."

Since the other party brought these things in front of everyone, Liang En didn't intend to give him face.

"I think everyone present has heard my translation just now, and the stone tablet is placed here." Liang En said, pointing to the stone tablet on the ground, "So please point out my mistakes!"

After hearing what Liang En said, everyone present focused their attention on Dr. Sharif.

Although they didn't know the conflict between the two, it was human nature to watch the excitement, so everyone focused on them.

"Because it is now recognized that the ancient Egyptian characters are all hieroglyphs used to express meaning, and you confirm that some of these characters are only phonetic."

When he found that everyone was staring at him, Sharif panicked for a moment, and then quibbled.

"Although the point of view you put forward can indeed translate part of the content, but in the absence of other evidence to support your plan, it is just a guess, and I just don't want you to lead everyone astray."

(End of this chapter)