Before AD [Babylonian Favorites]

I looked up at the big words "National Museum of Egypt" at the gate of the palace, and I had the urge to vomit blood.

The world is united? 2012 ahead of time?What kind of mental illness prompted these two lower-body animals to abandon the fine traditions of clubbing and pick-up, and resolutely plunge into the ocean of knowledge in the museum in the middle of the night?

I eyed the two dubiously.

"Don't look at people like that, I'm so embarrassed, I knew you would like this surprise." Colin waved his hands shyly.

My eyes instantly changed from suspicion to contempt.

"Someone told me that the best way to understand a city is to visit its museums." Jared said, "I have never been to Egypt before, so I really want to come here. Don't you want to witness the history Those great miracles?"

"It's okay to witness...but what kind of sunglasses do you wear at night?" I asked.

"Colin and I are both Hollywood stars, what if we are so blatant and recognized by fans?"

I'm speechless, these are a bunch of narcissistic men, do they really think they are so handsome that they are kissed by Egyptian female fans in turbans?

"Besides," Jared smiled softly, "don't you think I look handsome in sunglasses?"

I couldn't help shivering.

Probably because it was night and it was a working day, the museum was empty and deserted, and even the staff could not see a few.I took the travel brochure casually, opened it and looked at it.

书上说博物馆的一层按时间顺序统共分了七个展厅，涵盖了从距今4000多年的古埃及法老时代到公元5、6世纪的古希腊罗马文明。二层则是专题展区，包括什么银币啊、莎草纸啊、木乃伊啊之类的。这里收藏的文物一共加起来竟然有30多万件，光陈列展出的就有6.4万件[1]。

Just kidding, there are so many cultural relics, if you want to read them all carefully, it is impossible not to sleep tonight.

The first exhibition hall is also the most eye-catching, because it displays the treasure of the town hall, the half-length golden mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the 2th Dynasty[[-]].

Colin pounced on to grab the glass cabinet, and with that look, he wished he could swallow it in one gulp.

Jared and I also walked around the golden mask.

Gold is really suitable for preservation. The mask before the 14th century almost blinded me when I looked at it now.

But when I think of the Long March with 6.4 cultural relics, I don’t have the heart to drool over the gold, and the truth is to go back early after shopping.

I quickly go around.

The transparent and clean glass display case is full of various gadgets, sweat, pharaoh's parasol, king's underwear, pawn shop receipts... and ancient Egyptian death certificates?

Huh?How did you spot this at a glance?What a bad luck!

"Little Francisco, why are you running so fast? We are here to play, not to suffer..."

Colin's voice came from afar, and disappeared soon after I turned into the next exhibition hall.

When I was in college, I took the course of visual culture. Although I was involved in the history of art development, I still focused on the study of Greece and Rome, which is more related to European civilization.To put it bluntly, the Egyptian civilization, except for the well-known pyramids, pharaohs, Cleopatra, and mummies, is no different to me from the Martian civilization (if there is a civilization on Mars), so I kept reading travel brochures along the way. Knowledge.

According to the manual, the history of ancient Egypt is the "Pharaoh era", and there are five stages:

Old king period (3100 BC - 2686 BC)

Early king period (2686 BC - 2181 BC)

Chinese king period (2181 BC - 1567 BC)

Period of new kings (1567 BC - 1585 BC)

Post-King period (1085 BC - 332 BC).

In the early and middle ages, Egypt has been ruled by its own pharaohs.It wasn't until the latter part of the post-shah period that Egypt welcomed their first foreign invader, the Persian Empire in what is now Iran and what was then Mesopotamia.They captured Egypt twice, which really set off a bloody storm in this ancient civilization.

Since then, Egypt has been in turmoil. It was not until 332 BC that the second invader, Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, Greece, led his troops to invade Egypt and destroy Persia. This finally ended the nearly 3000-year-long history of Pharaohs.[3 ].

Wait, Alexander the Great?

I raised my head and stopped in my tracks.

There is a big sign on the sign in the exhibition hall in front of you:

Hall V - Post-king period and Greco-Roman period.

I turned my head to look at the first four exhibition halls left behind by me, and I couldn't react for a while.

What did I see just now, why did I go to the fifth exhibition hall so quickly?

In the empty exhibition hall, there are many glass cabinets arranged in a patchwork order, the most eye-catching one is the one on the ground.

I get closer and squat down.

It was a white stone head.

He tilted his head slightly, half of which was shallowly buried in the fine sand, and half of which was exposed.The whole face and a small part of curly hair are exposed, the eyebrows are straight, the forehead is smooth, but there are still no pupils in the eyes.

King Alexander.

The most blessed son of Zeus, the greatest military genius in European history, and the disseminator of ancient Greek civilization.

At the age of 18, he went out with his father.

Inherited the throne at the age of 20.

At the age of 31, he established a huge empire stretching from ancient Greece and Macedonia in the west to the Ganges River Basin in India in the east, the first waterfall of the Nile River in the south, and Yaoshashui in the north.

I silently read the explanatory text on the stone tablet beside me.Every time I read a line, I feel like a small wave is set off in my heart.

Wave after wave, wave after wave.

The last line is Alexander's narration.

"I can be a great hero like Achilles [4], achieve great glory, and die early. Of course, I can also choose to live a long life, but there is no glory [5]."

My eyes fell back to the sculpture.

His face was slightly sideways, as if he was looking at something, so I couldn't help turning my head to follow his gaze.

A delicate and small glass cabinet stands in the corner.

As if there is some kind of omen, I feel that there is something incredible hidden there, calling me deeply.

Heartbeats start to become clear.

I slowly got up and approached.

After just one glance, I was a little surprised.

Magnificent red gemstones and bright golden rings lie quietly under the white light.

Isn't this exactly the same ring that Colin and Jared wore during rehearsal?Why is it here?

I took a closer look, only to find that the ruby ​​on this ring was actually broken!It was glued together again and embedded in it again.Countless small cracks destroy the original beauty, but add a touch of vicissitudes and mystery.

My heart was beating more and more violently, and in a trance, I seemed to hear a voice softly tempting me.

Pick it up, pick it up.

At this moment, this terrible and unrealistic idea awakened in my heart, and it was about to move.

The ruby ​​ring is still there.

I reached out my hand obsessively, trying to touch the glass cabinet.

But I didn't touch anything - the glass disappeared!

Or, maybe I was wrong from the beginning, maybe there is no glass on this display case at all!

I took a deep breath, and with trembling hands, I picked up the ring.

Everything in the air seemed unreal, as if smelling an inexplicable smell.

Very familiar, yet very far away.

"Francisco, what are you doing?!"

A male voice unexpectedly sounded from behind me, which made me tremble, my hand trembled, and the ring slipped from between my fingers.

When I turned around, Jared looked at me inexplicably from a distance, and some deep emotions appeared in his blue eyes, including sadness and... resentment?

Dang bang.

Only this crisp sound was heard in the empty exhibition hall.

The ruby ​​shattered.

For a while, the wind was blowing.

Alexander's sculpture was gradually buried by yellow sand.

There were bursts of whistling sounds from all directions, shaking the heavens and the earth.

Before I could make a sound, I was plunged into an overwhelming darkness.

The author has something to say:

[1] From "National Museum of Egypt" Baidu Encyclopedia.

[2] From web page

[3] From "Egyptian History" Baidu Encyclopedia.

[4] Achilles, the hero in Homer's Iliad.

[5] From the movie "Alexander the Great".