Chapter 647: Holy book

The Plague Doctor's Scriptures, Chapter 467, Holy Book Style [Purchase Monthly Ticket, Ask for Subscription] When Herry Fordner and George Edwin talked on the phone, they thought they exaggerated their words. Just a few pieces of pottery. But he and Edwin have been friends for more than 20 years, and have identified many truly rare cultural relics together, so they are no doubt confused that they are no longer young men in their twenties studying archaeology in Cambridge. By the way, it will not be so emotional.
Furthermore, this Nubian area at the junction of Egypt and Sudan is an important excavation site with many temples, forts, tombs, etc. In the period from 1553 BC to 1085 BC in the New Kingdom period, ancient Egypt annexed this place, so although remote, good things could be unearthed.
So after the call, Herry Fordner left immediately and flew from Lundy to this place.
It was only three days after the telephone communication was reached.
However, when Fordner walked into Edwin's local office, he was startled. "George, you look bad."
Although Edwin is 57 years old, because he usually maintains fitness for a long time, he was still a member of the rowing team when studying in Cambridge, and his body was very strong.
But now, Edwin's face shrugged, with two dark circles on his eyes, very haggard, perhaps because his eyes were full of blood, even a little weird.
Because Fordner has a close relationship with each other, he has no politeness, nor hides his surprises and worries. "Did you sleep well?"
"Hello, old friend." Edwin greeted him and turned to the desk, "I haven't slept a lot these days ..."
"Because of those pieces of pottery?" Fordner followed with doubt.
This office is small, except for a desk, several cabinets beside the wall with some identification tools, and some imitations of cultural relics, there is nothing left, the street outside can be seen from the window, but at this time Edwin The curtains were tightly covered.
"Yes, that's right ... I don't understand what the above holy book sentence means ... Here, I feel there is a secret hidden in it, and we have to uncover it ... maybe Jean-Francois -Shang Boliang looked at Rosetta Stone at the time, and it was such a mood ... "
"Wow." Fordner heard Shang Boliang's name and couldn't help but sneer at himself.
Who are they? Underground dealer of Egyptian relics. Even at the Christie's auction site, they will not show their faces.
Putting the names of himself and Edwin together with Shang Boliang, Fordner really felt ashamed.
Moreover, how can the few pieces of pottery be compared with the Rosetta Stone? My old friend is really tired ...
"Here, you come and see that these fragments have a strange attraction ..."
"It's better to be." Fordner walked while still joking, "I haven't tasted any attraction in my wife for a long time."
Edwin ignored the joke of his old friend and operated a safe on his desk, slowly turning around to enter the password, and the safe made a chirping sound.
Fordner knew that the other party had bought the four fragments and it cost a lot. "Don't you say that the sellers said there are better things? Have you seen them?" He looked at the safe and opened it. Edwin took out the contents of the box carefully and solemnly.
"Not yet ..." said Edwin. "I want to wait for you to come and see what happens."
The four pieces were taken out and placed on a white cloth on the desk. Edwin stitched them together. "What do you think it looks like?"
"A water bowl." Fordner raised his eyebrows. "It's obviously a water bowl."
Edwin was unclear on the phone and was in a hurry. This was the first time Fordner had seen this thing for sure.
Bottles, jars and bowls are common funerary objects of the ancient Egyptians, because Egyptian civilization is a civilization based on deserts and semi-deserts, and they rely on the oasis to survive Used, especially bowls.
No matter when the pharaoh sacrifices to the gods or when he presides over the funeral, a water bowl is used to perform the ceremony.
The water bowl is arguably one of the most common Egyptian artifacts. Common things are generally not rare, but they can also be rare because they can come from any tomb.
"I think so too, the water bowl ..." Edwin's voice was a little hoarse, "Come and see the holy text on the bowl ..."
At this time, Fordner came to the table, because the holy text on the bowl was quite obvious and clear, he saw it clearly at once, and he suddenly mentioned it in his heart.
"Wait ..." Fordner questioned, but didn't know what he was wondering. The "strange feeling strange attraction" that Edwin said seemed to come over. He had seen so many ancient Egyptian artifacts , And the heritage of countless other ancient civilizations ...
Including the Rosetta Stone, the stunning Rosetta Stone ...
It's not like the feeling brought by the things in front of you. This is obviously just four pieces of pottery. Why is it like a giant tower? This thing is really not simple ...
Fordner stepped forward a little bit, the more waves he saw in his heart, the more he understood Edwin's feelings over the past few days.
"What do you think?" Edwin asked. "The information I know now is that these fragments were unearthed in a burial pit, not a mausoleum, no coffins, much like the graves of the rebels. I listen to what the sellers mean , They dug out several mummies, which should be the tomb owners. "
"This thing ..." Fordner's face was wrinkled, he took off his glasses and shook his mind, and calmed his heart before taking a closer look. "This style of carving should be no later than the New Kingdom period. Old friend, you Maybe I really picked up the treasure. "
"So tell me your opinion?" Edwin asked again ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The expression was slightly anxious, "What does this mean? Is the rebel's grave, stone + disease, the cause of death of the rebel? Way of rebellion? There is also the of the sun and the head of the ram, is this expressing the same deity? God Amon? "
"I think about it, let me think about it." Fordner groaned, put on his gloves, and gently stroked the surface texture of the debris. As his fingers gradually approached the line of holy text, he stopped tremblingly, as if it were a line. Cursed diseased text, although dust-covered for thousands of years, will still be infected once it is touched ...
Stone + pustule ... stone + disease ... disaster caused by stone, stone and medicine ...
Feeling messy, but Fordner remembered something again and asked, "Old friend, have you ever thought about why it is stone?"
"What?" Edward wondered.
"In Egyptian civilization, stone and medicine, don't you think of anything?" Fordner said again, "there are those birds, why are birds? During the New Kingdom, the water bowl, did you think of anything?"