Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 86 Rashid?Rosetta!
After the Sharif's words fell, the others on the field focused their attention on Liang En.

After all, for these professionals who specialize in the study of ancient Egypt, whether the ancient Egyptian language in this world can be deciphered is closely related to their future, so they really want to know what step Liang En has made in this regard .

"You're right. Ancient Egyptian does look like pure hieroglyphs, but hieroglyphs will evolve gradually." After realizing that everyone was paying attention to him, Liang En said to the people present.

"But with the development of the times, those pictographs will also change. For example, Chinese is an important example. The earliest Chinese is pictographs, but with the development of time, they have developed into ideograms."

"So in this case, I think that since the ancient Egyptian scriptures left a large number of hieroglyphs, it is very likely that they will develop into ideograms like Chinese."

"On the basis of this cognition, I used the ancient Egyptian language to make a comparison with the last remaining part of Coptic, and then gradually deciphered the true meaning of these ancient Egyptian words—"

Liang En roughly explained his process of translating this language. Of course, he didn't expect to be able to convince Sharif who had water in his mind, but he hoped that people around him could understand what he had done before.

All the people present were professionals in the field of historical research, so everyone understood that Liang En's view was not in line with tradition, but at least it made sense from a variety of principles.

"This is a very meaningful attempt." An ancient Egyptian craft research expert named Fines said, and then he looked at Sharif. "I don't know whether Mr. Liang's judgment is right or not, but this is at least a breakthrough."

"For us, any conjecture should be allowed. Especially when we can't find new and valuable progress on the road of hieroglyphs in a short period of time, this new perspective of judgment is very helpful even if it is wrong. value."

"And you, Mr. Sharif, I don't know what kind of grievances you have with Mr. Liang. But what I need to remind you is that we need to have enough evidence when opposing other people's views on academic issues, not just rely on our own guesses. "

Obviously, Mr. Fines still has a high reputation among the people who came to Egypt for inspection this time.So after he said that, everyone dispersed and went about their business, and no one listened to Sharif's platitudes.

"We have to give him a good taste." Seeing Sharif leaving in despair among the crowd, Fan Meng walked up to Liang En and whispered in Chinese. "The constant harassment like this is just so annoying."

"How should I teach him a lesson? Put him in a sack and throw him into the Nile River." Liang En shook his head helplessly and said. "For us, unless we can get tangible evidence, it seems that we have no reason to do it."

"Especially, although the other party is messing around, it looks like an academic discussion on the surface. So unless I can find evidence to support my point of view academically, there is really no good way."

"After all, this kind of academic problem can only be solved from an academic point of view, just like the practice of knocking down the opponent's debater with one punch cannot be adopted in a debate match."

When it was getting dark at night, everyone got together and chatted all over the place.At this time, everyone brought the topic to the history of the city of Rashid.

"Excuse me, why did you just say that this city still has a name?" Just as Liang En and Fan Meng were sitting and listening to some scholars talking about the history of this city, they suddenly heard a somewhat familiar pronunciation, So he asked quickly.

"Ah, that's something from the colonial era." Mr. Fines said seriously. "For the colonists, sometimes they couldn't pronounce the local place names, so they would find a similar pronunciation to call them conveniently."

"In this case, the place called Rashid was naturally given a name by the British. It's called Rosetta——Mr. Liang, what are you going to do?"

Fines looked at Liang En with a look of surprise, because after he said the word Rosetta, Liang En jumped up like a spring on his buttocks, and then quickly rushed to the half dug out just now. Stele.

"I suddenly had an inspiration." After Liang En confessed, he rushed into the room where the stele was dug out before. Seeing this, Fan Meng followed him into the warehouse.

"Rosetta, it's actually Rosetta. I should have thought of it when I saw the first line of words on that stone tablet." Liang En finally remembered the familiar feeling when he was translating just now.

Because the words he translated from the stele were actually the first few words of the Rosetta Stone, the cornerstone of Champollion’s study of ancient Egyptian.

And the reason why he didn't think of this at the first time was because the original stone tablet didn't have the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing on the top when it was excavated, but only the Greek version.

After realizing this, Liang En realized that the remnant stele he had found before was likely to be the upper half of the Rosetta Stone that had disappeared in the world he came from, at least very close in size.

So while combining four [Detection (N)] cards into one [Detection (R)], he went to the room that was used as a warehouse at the fastest speed and came to the side of the half of the stone tablet.

"Brother, why did you come here after eating?" Liang En just walked to the stele, and Fan Meng also ran into the room, and asked. "The roasted whole lamb is about to be served."

"I suddenly thought of something very important just now." Liang En said as he took out a strong flashlight and a small brush, and then said. "Can you see from this stone what the main source of wear and tear on it is?"

"You can see part of it." As a soldier who has participated in battles on the front line for a long time, Fan Meng still has a certain understanding of such traces, so he quickly found some traces on the stone tablet.

"Except for the weathering marks on these stone tablets, there are not many signs of wear and tear on them." Fan Meng said after carefully checking the top and bottom of the stone tablets.

"And this can only explain two situations. Either this castle was built on the basis of an ancient temple, or these building materials came from other places, but were transported directly through the Nile River next to it— —”

"It should be the second type." Liang En said after thinking for a while, because the Nile River's sand content is not small, so a large amount of sand with humus will be deposited in the mouth and other places where the river flows slowly.

In this way, the location of the mouth of the Nile actually extends step by step towards the Mediterranean Sea. That is to say, in those years when these steles were carved, this piece of land by the sea was probably still under the sea.

Just as the two people talked to each other, the process of building the castle was gradually restored.Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En used the [Detection (R)] card on the half of the stele.

In an instant, a spot of light lit up in Liang's mind.The amazing thing is that this spot of light is not far from Liang En's current location, just in the small courtyard of the castle.

"It's okay, it's okay——" Looking at the positions of these light spots, Liang En felt a lot more relaxed.

It seems that when the people who built this castle demolished the ancient Egyptian buildings back then, they demolished the ancient Egyptian buildings relatively cleanly, so that's why the stone tablet came here intact, instead of him trying to find a way to run into the desert.

(End of this chapter)