We Chinese a nation that is good at creating miracles, we have built the world-famous "Great Wall" in the era of bronze or important tools, and the magnificent Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, and our country is therefore considered to be one of the four ancient civilizations.
But there is more than one outstanding nation in the world, starting from the degree of historical creation, we Chinese wisdom is not the only one, on the Mediterranean coast, the northernmost part of Africa, the birthplace of mankind, there is a country called Egypt, their land, inhabited by ancient "Egyptians", once created a brilliant civilization.
A "great civilization" that makes today's Egypt one of the four ancient civilizations like China. This civilization was the Egyptian pharaonic civilization of B.C., and the monarchs of this civilization were called pharaohs, who claimed to be the embodiment of the gods and dominated almost the entire Nile Valley.
Among the many pharaohs, one pharaoh known as "Ramses II" is particularly prominent, and in the known information left, it can be clearly felt that he was a monarch with extremely heroic ambitions.
"I am Ozmandias, the king of kings, the world of merit, the mighty are impressed"
The "domineering" and "heroic" contained in this tone can be compared with our Chinese Qin Shi Huang, who claimed to be worthy of the three emperors and five emperors, and changed the title of monarch to the word "emperor".
The cultural relics that Xiao Yuan wants to talk about today is a huge statue of Ramses II, the "King of Kings". How big is this statue, 2 meters tall adult, standing in front of it may not even be able to compare with the shoulders, because the statue is only measured on the upper body, it is 2.5 meters high.
What is even more valuable is that in terms of material, the statue is a rough image, and the craftsmen who carved it almost did not use any splicing techniques. And from the statue imaging, there are still 7 tons of visible weight, this rough stone before being carved, at least more than 20 tons.
Judging from the land of the statue, just transporting this stone may be a great project that is talked about. The excavation site of the statue, called the "House of the Great and Invincible Ramses II", is located near Luxor, near the Middle East side of present-day Egypt, 150 kilometers from Aswan, where the stones were carved.
Without the help of trucks and trains, it is extremely difficult to move by human power, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miracle. And an act of "treasure theft" that occurred in 1798 is even more disproving the wisdom of the Egyptians at that time.
At that time, Napoleon's expeditionary army entered Egypt, and in order to get some loot back to Europe, he tried to remove the 7-ton statue mentioned in this article, but from the results, it can be seen that Napoleon's men failed.
From the clues now known, thanks to the defeat of Napoleon's legions, otherwise we might not have seen the statue that is still relatively complete today, because on the left chest of the statue of Ramses II, there is a distinct round hole, and this round hole, most likely the soldiers of the time, was ready to explode the statue with explosives and then take it away.
However, although the statue escaped the transport of Napoleon's soldiers, it could not escape the "greed" of European merchants, a European antique dealer named Berzoni, in 1816, by reading a large number of ancient books, from how the Egyptians transported the stones to the reverse thinking, gathered hundreds of people, interacted with wooden rollers and ropes, imitating the ancient Egyptians who moved the statue step by step, when the statue reached the Nile. Through modern appliances on the river, it was transported to Europe and finally landed in the British Museum.