Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

There are two somewhat old Helevan pistols placed in the storage box in front of the co-pilot. They are Beretta 1951 pistols copied and produced by Egypt with permission. It was once the standard weapon of the Egyptian army, but has now been eliminated.

I spent 1,000 euros to buy them and 80 rounds of ammunition yesterday. Fan Meng introduced, After all, the situation in this area has not been very stable, so it is better to prepare some weapons for self-defense than to wait for someone to rescue or pay a ransom after being kidnapped. .”

You are right, the Egyptians are not that reliable in many places. Rather than relying on them, I think it is more meaningful to make some preparations myself. Liang En nodded, and then looked at the scenery on both sides of the road.

Because this place is in the Nile Delta, both sides of the road are not as desolate as before, but full of vitality. Whether it is date palm trees or aquatic plants by the river, the surrounding environment is not so dead.

Although it is winter now, the temperature at noon is still around 25 degrees. Driving on an asphalt road under these conditions is not a good feeling.

Fortunately, the destination of this trip was only five or six kilometers away from the city, so the convoy reached its destination along the highway in just a few minutes.

We are here now. Just when everyone saw the mouth of the river flowing along the road, Professor Jacques's voice came over the radio. Ahead of us now is Ketbe Castle.

After hearing the sound, Liang En, who was originally a little drowsy, sat upright in his seat and looked towards the front of the vehicle, only to see a building similar to Tianfang Temple.

This is a castle left over from the Mamluk era, located five kilometers north of Rashid City where the Rashid River enters the sea. It was built as a fortress to guard strategic roads.

It's just that now this castle has completely lost its military role in the past, and has become an ordinary ancient building surrounded by various simple houses.

The reason why Liang En and the others came here was because the local area planned to renovate this building and use it as a tourist attraction to attract tourists, so they invited the Louvre Museum in France to help with the scientific research even though they were short of manpower.

Katebe Castle? After the call ended, Fan Meng looked at the unattractive building in front of him with a puzzled expression. If I remember correctly, the castle built on the site of the Alexandria Lighthouse was also called this name.

You are right, because the Sultan who was printed on one Egyptian pound was a standard infrastructure maniac in that era. Liang En replied with a smile. So there are quite a few buildings named after him in Egypt now.

The Sultan was an Egyptian ruler who lived in the 15th century, so the other party naturally had no ideals about protecting cultural relics. Therefore, when building this castle, the other party used a large number of materials from ancient buildings.

In fact, this kind of behavior was very common in that era. For example, only half of the outer buildings of the Colosseum in ancient Rome are left, and the other half was used by local residents as building materials to build new buildings over a long period of time. .

This is why the Louvre Museum needs to be invited to come here when the building is being renovated. Because this building uses a large number of certain components from ancient Egyptian architecture, these things now need to be sorted out.

After getting off the car, everyone quickly moved some things from the car into the castle, and then, accompanied by a group of locals, began to explore the entire castle.

As soon as he entered the door, Liang En saw ancient Egyptian characters carved on the steps on the wall on the right. When he got closer, he found that although there were only some incomplete words on it, the remaining ring of the king's name indicated that it should have been taken from a certain temple.

It's a pity that the stonemason's plan at that time cut the pillar horizontally, so the two lines of writing on it were all incomplete, and it was impossible to recognize what was written.

But this is obviously a good sign, proving that there are many valuable cultural relics hidden in this area. So after placing some of the tools they carried in the center of the yard, the entire expedition team divided their respective areas to search under the instructions of Professor Jacques.

The search area assigned to Liang En was very small, with only a few soldiers' barracks. The reason for this is because the main purpose of Liang En's visit this time is to translate the texts on the excavated cultural relics for everyone in real time.

As soon as the mission was announced, Liang En was pulled to a wall by Professor Jacques. On that wall, half a stone tablet was embedded at the height of a person's face. It looked relatively complete, with only a few places showing signs of wear.

This should be a stone tablet left by the Ptolemaic Dynasty in the Hellenistic era of ancient Egypt. After reading a few lines of text, Liang En quickly translated the content on the stone tablet. It is mainly to praise Arsinoe III's donation to the temple.

Arsinoe III? That is, the daughter of King Ptolemy III of Egypt, the half-sister and wife of Ptolemy IV. As an Egyptology expert, Professor Jacques quickly remembered who this person was.

Although she died during the political struggle, the other party was a person who was quite popular among the Egyptian people in history. The two conspirators who killed him at that time were also expelled later, so this inscription was left behind. It’s normal.”

But professor, is this translation really accurate? Just after Liang En finished translating the content on the stone tablet, a middle-aged man with a beard suddenly said next to him.

After hearing the question, Liang En turned his head and found that the person who raised the objection was Dr. Sharif, who is also a researcher in the ancient Egypt department of the Louvre Museum in France.

Okay, what do you think is wrong with my translation just now? After hearing the questioning, Liang En looked directly at the middle-aged man and asked.

After all, this is a language that has been dead for a long time. Even a talented expert like Champollion may not be able to translate everything correctly, so he also hopes to hear some valuable suggestions.

How are you sure that your translation is completely correct? After all, no one knows what these dead words actually mean now. You can completely fabricate the so-called correct translation through sensationalism -

I hope you can come up with some valuable information instead of being so messy as you are now. After discovering that the other party was just making a personal attack for some reason, Liang En said with a serious face.

I don't think my research is necessarily correct, but you'd better come up with some tangible evidence when you accuse me. Otherwise, it will be difficult for your accusation to be beneficial to this academic field.

Don't be pretentious here. The so-called research of a guy like you who has not received long-term professional training is just hoping to defraud money. Obviously, this Dr. Sharif must have some problems in some aspects, so he took it out on Liang En.

Come to think of it, he looks twice as old as Liang En and has much higher education than him. But now he can only do some auxiliary tasks for Professor Jacques, so it is reasonable for his emotions to burst out all at once.

Sharif, we are scholars, not politicians. Professor Jacques also had a look of dissatisfaction on his face at this time. So when you accuse others of making mistakes, it's best to come up with reasonable enough reasons instead of making personal attacks like now.