If you go back 20 years, when I was in my 10s, I was deeply curious by a message broadcast on the television station, a country far away from me, a building far away from modern times, an ancient civilization that I had only heard in history textbooks, and the code inside the pyramids of Egypt was about to be revealed to the world.
On September 17, 2002, a robot was about to expedition egypt to explore the "South Passage" inside the Pyramid of Cheops. This will be the first time since the pyramid was completed 4500 years ago that humans have spied on the "top secret inside story" at the end of the "South Passage". In the early morning of September 17, Local time in Egypt, when the mystery of the queen's tomb was supposed to be slowly unraveled, it was ushered in another mysterious stone gate behind the blocking stones.
In 2002, without destroying the cultural relics, after consultation with the relevant Egyptian authorities, it was decided to use a miniature camera to find out by punching holes. After opening it, they found that the stone door was still stone, and it was particularly difficult to continue to look forward, which could cause some damage to the pyramid. Thus the plan to explore secret passages came to an end. Discover the secrets behind the stone gates of Khufu's Pyramid
Rosetta Stone
To trace the most important part of people's exploration of ancient Egypt, the discovery of the Rosetta Stone has completely opened the door for archaeologists to explore ancient Egypt. Discovered in 1799 by French Captain Pierre Verhansova Zawiye Buschahe in rosetta, an Egyptian harbor, it was transferred to the British during the war between Britain and France, and has been preserved in the British Museum since 1802 and publicly displayed.
Photographed at the British Museum in 2017
In 2017, when you leave for the UNITED Kingdom, you must see for yourself the source of all the secrets of ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs remained unsolvable puzzles until the Discovery of the Rosetta Stone. The stele is a greek, ancient Egyptian, and popular version of the time inscribed with the same passage at the same time, containing the edict of the ancient Egyptian king Ptolemy V ascending the throne. Because the ancient Greek script can be recognized, modern archaeologists have interpreted the meaning and structure of Egyptian hieroglyphs that have been lost for more than a thousand years, which has become an important milestone in the study of ancient Egyptian history today.
The Holy Book
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Egyptians would carve some funeral verses, with some beautiful pictures, on the sarcophagus, such as the ones below, and the easiest way to distinguish between stories and names was to circle the names of people. The holy book body is not a diagram representing a meaning, but several diagrams representing a story, so looking at this needs to be made up by yourself. For example, the line of the middle layer probably means that it is good to eat and drink all the way, in short, don't care about the details.
Photographed at the Egyptian Museum in 2019
Papyrus
Inside the British Museum, there are many relics looted at that time, statues of Ramses II, various papyrus frescoes, mummies, etc. Unlike the Egyptian Museum, the mummies of the British Museum can be photographed.
Photographed at the Egyptian Museum in 2019, mummified offal containers
Speaking of papyrus, I have to mention Upper and Lower Egypt. Lower Egypt refers to the northern half of the country, including the Nile Delta; Upper Egypt refers to the southern half of Lower Egypt and Thebes (present-day Luxor).
Upper Egypt: Nile Valley, cliffs and cliffs visible, beyond the desert. Advocating white, the king wears a white crown, and the treasury is called the white house. Worship the vulture god Nabek, symbolized by the lotus flower.
Lower Egypt: The flat and endless Nile Delta. Lower Egypt revered red, the king wore a red crown, and the treasury was called the Red House. Worship the cobra god, symbolized by papyrus.
Papyrus this is actually a kind of waterside plant pole, flattened and then folded up, a burst of hammer and then flattened, after drying is a kind of paper, sounds very good, you can also do it with sugar cane.
Photographed at the Egyptian Museum in 2019
For example, the above paper depicts the resurrection story of Auresis. The reason why it is green is not to show off our pigments, and after the resurrection, it is green. That's why there's an artifact called Seth's Dagger in Atango's Mummy Movie.
Abu Simbel Temple
The Abu Simbel Temple is 280km from Aswan, it takes almost 4 hours to drive, depart at 4 a.m., and strive to arrive before 9 a.m., supposedly because it will be safer on the road, and the bandits around them may get up after 9 o'clock.
Taken in Abu Simbel 2019
Because Egypt was going to build the Aswan Dam, the original location of the Abu Simbel Temple was flooded, so the Egyptians cut the temple into pieces, and then moved to the current location, and assembled it, just like Lego
Taken in Abu Simbel 2019
Every year, on the two days of the spring and autumn equinoxes, the sun shines through the door of the temple into the innermost four statues. It is said that the four stone statues side by side, from left to right, are the gods Putah, Amun Ra, the deified Ramses II, and la Harachti. It is also said that in fact, only the three statues on the right can be illuminated, and the leftmost is the God of Darkness, and the God of Darkness is always in darkness.
Sacrifices to other temples in ancient Egypt with cats
Coming to Egypt to visit the temples, we slowly discovered a common denominator, the temples are directly dedicated to animal gods, such as crocodiles and eagles. Or it will be guarded by another magical animal, that is, the Egyptian cat.
"Basteet, the cat god in ancient Egyptian mythology, before the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, she was once the goddess of war in Lower Egypt, as opposed to the lion goddess Sehmet of Upper Egypt, and because of its similarity, Best's priesthood slowly transformed from the god of war to the patron saint of the family, symbolizing the warmth and joy of the family, widely loved by the Egyptians, so cats are sacred beasts in Egypt, and cats are also raised in the temple and fed to them according to rituals."
These qualities possessed by the Egyptians
Violence and theft are forbidden by doctrine in a country where most people are Muslims, but the Qur'an does not tell them not to lie.
For egyptians, when you ask them something, especially how some places are going, or in a certain direction, if the Egyptian doesn't know how to get to your destination. Then for him, the direct refusal is to say "I don't know" This is a very difficult thing, so that it will appear that he is very unenthusiastic, not helpful, almost shameful for him, rather than this, randomly pointing you to a position is a solution more suitable for the Egyptians.
Egyptian Royal Tombs with Sphinx
When the vehicle approaches the Giza district, three huge pyramids can be seen in the distance, the largest of which is the Pyramid of Khufu. Some of the pyramids can be seen to have gradually peeled off due to corrosion, and a layer of cement-like stuff can be seen.
Photographed in the Pyramid of Cheops in 2019
When you touch these stones with your hands, you can't help but reflect the scene where it was built.
"Around 2690 BC, the Pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, Khufu. At the sound of an order, 100,000 ancient Egyptians began a 10-year-long construction project, according to the pyramid design completed by the pharaoh's designers, completing the process of quarrying, transportation, construction, carving and so on.
The construction of the Great Pyramid of Khufu required 5 million tons of stone, and the quarry was about half a mile south of the Pyramid of Khufu. The quarry was huge and disciplined, and it was filled with an estimated 1,500 peasants recruited from all over the country in the name of the king, working day and night, day and night. Yes, Pharaoh is the symbol of the sun god in the hearts of the people, they should be willing to build such a miracle building, the process of building is extremely arduous, some people may die of exhaustion, some people may eventually be able to return to their hometown. ”
Bargaining is a traditional craft, and it is not advisable not to come
The souks are where their needs are met. Of these souks, the most memorable is Khan Khalili Khan el-Khalili. While the establishment of the Khan Khalili Market may not date back to the time of the Egyptian pharaohs, the origins of the construction of the market can also be traced back to the 14th century, when Cairo was at the crossroads of trade routes stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean.
Bargaining is an important part of Khan Khalili's market experience. Some items are cheap and some are handmade. Either way, you should expect that the offer of the shop owner will definitely have a lot of moisture.
The recommendation is to start cutting directly according to the 2.5% discount. In most cases (except for very fine gold or silver), you should not pay more than 40% off the merchant's offer.
Book of the Dead
In the archaeological process of ancient Egypt, archaeologists stumbled upon a Book of the Dead in the scale of the ruins of the city of Cajon, which is also known as the Book of the Dead, and is one of the necessary funerary items for ancient Egyptians to be buried. But the Book of the Dead is not a dark code, it contains a list of black magic spells and curses, and the contents of the Book of the Dead are mostly prayers, and the Egyptians believe that these symbols can help the dead to successfully reach the afterlife.
The story of ancient Egypt has never ended, if you are also curious, you may wish to study the Holy Book textbook, from the perspective of foreign scholars, study the sarcophagus and hieroglyphs on the walls, understand the thinking and logic of the ancient Egyptians, it is not a vain trip to Egypt.