Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 87 The Rosetta Stone
"Are you scholars all this crazy?" Just when Liang En was excited by the light spot so close at hand, Fan Meng suddenly complained from the sidelines.

"Me, crazy?" Liang En, who was awakened from thinking, pointed at himself with one finger, only to see Fan Meng nodding vigorously beside him.

"It shouldn't be so urgent to figure out how this castle was built. It's hard for me to understand why you gave up the roast whole lamb just out of the oven for this."

"Mengzi, this is much more important than roasting a whole lamb." Liang En shook his index finger lightly, and then said. "If the other party transported this stele here by water, then there is a high probability that the builders will transport the whole stele."

"Judging from the existing text on this stele, this stele should come from a temple built by the Ptolemaic dynasty in the Hellenistic era of Egypt." Having said that, Liang En glanced at the bewildered Fan Meng, then explained.

"And if the other party is transported by water, then it means that the other party has a high probability of ignoring the weight of those items. In other words, the lower half of this stele is likely to be in this castle as well."

"But what does it mean?" After hearing Liang En's explanation, Fan Meng felt even more confused. "Is there any special significance in restoring this stele? Today we found three complete steles, and more than a dozen incomplete ones—"

"No, it's not the same." Liang En shook his head and said. "Because in that Hellenistic era, such temple inscriptions were ordered to add Greek as a sign of submission to the conqueror."

"Greek..." Fan Meng just doesn't understand history, and he's not very good at reading or doing academic research, but his brain is still very smart, so Liang En's words just fell, he realized Liang En's words meaning of words.

"You mean, if this is a complete stele, then the same thing should be written on it in ancient Egyptian and then in Greek?"

"That's right, and if there is such a stone tablet, I can prove to everyone that the ancient Egyptian translation I summed up through my own means is correct." Liang En said helplessly.

"It's a pity that the Hellenistic era in Egypt was not long, and because of changes in beliefs, many past temples were turned into ruins or used for other purposes, so this bilingual stele has not been fully preserved to this day."

Considering it is night, it is inconvenient to do any work.So Liang En and Fan Meng returned to the square in the center of the castle with excitement and ate the roasted whole lamb that was already a little cold.

The people present were not surprised by Liang En's behavior just now. After all, for these real scholars, sometimes it is normal to think of something and start working directly. They even think that only such people can achieve academically. Great achievements.

Early the next morning, Liang En and Fan Meng, who had just finished breakfast, came to the edge of a ruin in the yard. On the ruins, several local workers with their heads covered were clearing up under the direction of a young scholar. ruins.

When Liang En and the others said that they were able to help because they had finished the work at hand, the young scholar named Roland showed a grateful look on his face.

The reason why Liang En and the others dug here was because the place he marked after using the card last night was here. Of course, what he told Fan Meng was naturally another reason.

"I seem to have found it." Just one and a half hours after they started digging, they finally completely cleared the surface of the ruins and dug to the ground. At this time, Fan Meng felt a large piece of dust under the surface of the surface. Stone.

"It really seems to be what we're looking for." After clearing out a palm-sized piece of ground, Liang En found that the flat stone underneath was also black granite.

"You're right. Those workers were really regular when they moved the stones." Fan Meng whispered to Liang En while cleaning up the soil on the ground. "

Obviously, the stones in this building located at the gate of the fortress are larger than those in the houses we saw before.In other words, the heavier the stone, the shorter the distance they can carry. "

While the two were chatting, the outline of the stele was gradually cleared up.Like the previous half of the stele, the half of the stele here is also facing down.

The reason for this is not how much cultural relic protection awareness those people have.It's because there are so many hieroglyphs in ancient Egypt that look like human beings, so they needed to cover them up for religious reasons.

Soon, the outline of the stele was cleared up.Then, with the help of hired native workers, they pried the stele from the ground and turned it over.

"Oh my god! This is a big discovery—" After seeing the densely packed text on the other side of the stele, the scholar named Roland exclaimed.

But just when he was about to pounce to check, Liang En stopped him.

"Now I have some things to do." Liang En said and asked Fan Meng to take out a drape from the side to cover the ancient Greek writings, and then cleaned up the stele while taking photos.

"A lot of people don't believe that I can translate ancient Egyptian, so I want to be able to prove that I do have knowledge, not just make it up."

After looking at the person who was summoned by Roland's voice just now, Liang En glanced at Sherif who had been messing around and making trouble for him just now, and then said loudly.

"The stele we just discovered is a very rare commemorative stele for a temple in the Hellenistic era, and it is relatively well preserved. That is to say, the same content is written in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian vulgar and ancient Greek Each article was written once."

"Now, I will translate ancient Egyptian in front of you. And you can understand what is written on this stone tablet through ancient Greek. When the translation is over, everyone should know whether I Really understand ancient Egyptian."

In fact, Sharif represents the views of many people on the field.After all, Liang En was considered an outsider who joined this small group.At the same time, they are also the lowest among these people in terms of academic qualifications, so they faintly reject Liang En.

So it's easy to understand why Liang En made such a sudden move at this time. At least through this method, he can gain the respect he deserves in the shortest possible time.

"Very good, let's do this." Professor Jacques, the team leader, said, and then began to direct the workers to prepare everything Liang En needed, preparing for him to translate the ancient Egyptian words on the stone tablet on the spot.

In his opinion, Liang En's current age is the time when he is young and vigorous, so after being provoked many times before, he has been able to endure it until now, which has surpassed most of his peers.Therefore, it is only natural to use this method to rectify one's name.

Compared with the practice of scolding and fighting with each other, Liang En's choice of academic counterattack is easier to gain the approval of these scholars present.

Of course, the reason why Professor Jacques did this is also a small selfishness.That is, I hope that I can witness the occurrence of an important event in ancient Egyptology for the first time.

(End of this chapter)