Chapter 833: The Figure in the Tomb
Faced with the audience's request, Bifang sternly refused.
[I have reason to suspect who Fang Shen is implying (dog head)]
[Fang Shen is not a robber, but someone is]
[Don't talk nonsense, go inside and take a look]
[Boring, no treasure, we want to see rivers of blood! ]
The flames flickered, illuminating the space.
The information on the walls is extremely rich and clear, and the densely painted patterns are numerous and quite exquisite.
There are little brown-skinned people standing in a row, seemingly offering sacrifice to something.
Bifang was overwhelmed by what he saw.
When it comes to the ancient Egyptian pyramids, everyone knows about them, but few people know about the Mastaba, the predecessor of the ancient Egyptian pyramids.
But this is also a part that you must see when you come to Egypt.
This may be the first time that this ancient tomb is open to the world, and he is the first person to see it. At the same time, there are tens of millions of viewers accompanying him, and the number is still increasing.
Many people expressed admiration and disbelief.
At first, the quicksand on the ground loosened, revealing a cave, and no one realized the exaggeration of the matter.
Bifang actually discovered such a unique scene underground.
This is not a natural cave, but a relic!
A true ancient relic!
This of course caused another stir on the Internet.
With the advancement of human technology and the launch of satellites one after another, there may still be lost things that have not been found in the primeval forests, but wilderness like the desert has almost no secrets for people.
With just a satellite photo, you can clearly see where the pyramids are, without having to ride a camel and go through a lot of trouble to find them.
Therefore, almost all undiscovered ruins in the desert are located underground or in a canyon crack somewhere, which makes it very difficult to find them.
That is why, after entering the 21st century, we no longer hear about explorers like the Chinese archaeologist Howard Carter, who became famous for discovering Tutankhamun's tomb.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to find ruins, and there are fewer and fewer explorers. It seems that news of the discovery of ruins only existed in the last century, in history, and in movies.
I never thought it would actually appear in reality, just like the movie The Mummy becoming a reality.
"Mastabas are different from pyramids. Pyramids are completely exposed above the ground. Although mastabas also have ground parts, they are not tall buildings. Compared with tall buildings like pyramids, they are more like bungalows."
"If the location is not right, a few sandstorms may bury it underground."
"What's more, some of them don't even have any surface parts and are completely buried underground."
The people who were probably most excited about Bifang's discovery of this lost relic were probably the archaeologists who were studying ancient Egyptian history.
During the time since he entered the ruins, he has seen a large group of people asking him about the location of this matter. There were all kinds of barrage languages. If it weren't for the system translation, some of the languages would not even be understandable to him.
As for the excitement of the audience, let alone anything they watch, they are excited.
But it’s just through the screen, so it’s not as shocking as being there in person.
Watching it in the video, I can never experience the profound sense of history in person.
Footsteps were heard in the empty corridor, and light and shadows swayed along with them.
While looking at the murals, Bifang also popularized some history of ancient Egypt to the audience.
"The original pyramids were a combination of layers of mastabas, with mud bricks becoming whole stone bricks, each layer narrower than the previous one until the top was completed, so we can see that many pyramids are in a stepped shape and have many rooms inside."
[Is the pyramid outside like this too? ]
[I always thought that the pyramids were destroyed or collapsed and became stepped...]
[This ancient tomb was definitely built shortly before the Djoser Pyramid, and all the details are already quite complete]
[I've heard of the Pyramid of Djoser. It seems to be the first pyramid, right?]
With the continuous progress of ancient Egyptian civilization, Egyptian pharaohs began to have higher pursuits for various sacrificial rituals.
During the reign of Pharaoh Djoser from around 2635 to 2610 BC, he ordered his prime minister Imhotep to build him a new type of tomb that was different from previous mastabas.
Imhotep was a genius. After accepting the task assigned by the pharaoh, he began to devote himself to the research and development of the design of the new tomb.
In the minds of the ancient Egyptians, the pharaoh was the son of the sun god Amon, the agent and incarnation of God on earth. After the death of the pharaoh, his soul would ascend to heaven.
Based on this idea, Imhotep began to design a stepped tomb, which was meant to be a ladder for the pharaoh to ascend to heaven after his death.
The new tomb designed by Imhotep was built on the basis of the mastaba, but unlike the traditional mastaba, the new tomb was made up of 6 mastabas stacked on top of each other, and the building materials of the tomb were not mud bricks, but large stones.
Each mastaba is smaller than the next one and they overlap upwards in a stepped manner.
"The final work is the Pyramid of Djoser. The entire mausoleum is 62 meters high, with a base of 109 meters by 125 meters, and a total of six floors. It is the first stepped pyramid in history."
"Unlike many later Egyptian pyramids, all of the Step Pyramid's interior spaces are underground, including the massive central shaft leading to the burial chamber."
"The total length of the underground passages of the step pyramid is more than 6 kilometers, and the structure is complex and like a maze. This is probably the result of constant experimentation in the process of building new tombs."
"At the same time, many blue bricks will be inlaid on both sides of the underground passage, which means that the pharaoh will ascend to the sky after his death."
Bifang walked to the end of a passage and saw a small staircase with a small platform on top of it.
The platform is not high and looks to be only as big as a desk. I don’t know what it is used for.
[Just a quick question, do anchors need to know everything about astronomy and geography? ]
[It is like this]
[How dare you be a host if you don’t know eight languages? 】
"Later, the pharaohs pursued more and more wonders, and the pyramids became larger and larger. The overly complex structure of the underground led to too many hollows inside, and finally the load-bearing capacity was insufficient, and the whole thing was very easy to collapse."
"The base of the Djoser Pyramid partially collapsed, so the layered pyramid became solid again, leaving only the corridor and the final tomb chamber, and the overall appearance became very smooth, as if it were one piece."
"The archetype of this type of solid pyramid is the Khufu Pyramid, the largest pyramid in the world. It was the tallest building in the world until the Eiffel Tower was built in Paris in 1888."
Bifang then walked through many more passages. At the end of many of them there were small "tables" like the one he had just seen, and without exception they were all on the north side. There were also broken pieces of wooden boats near some of the tables.
After seeing the fragments of the wooden boat, Bi Fang finally realized what the small table next to it was.
“It’s just a small altar.”
"The ancient Egyptians viewed houses as temporary residences and tombs as permanent residences."
"During the dynasty, the number of mastabas gradually increased, and small altars to the north and wooden boats next to the tombs appeared one after another."
"People believed that the dead pharaoh would ride this small wooden boat every day to accompany the sun god across the sky from east to west."
"This guy must be very rich."
"The complexity of the mastaba depended on the wealth and social status of its owner, with small rooms within the ground floor representing the various rooms within the palace."
“There are no corridors inside.”
After walking around the outside, Bifang went inside and found that the rooms here were next to each other, extremely small, and had no doors.
Bifang was not surprised by this.
There are no corridors inside the mastaba as it is believed that the soul can pass through the material barriers unharmed.
Bifang also discovered a mound above the central tomb pit, which is easily imagined to have evolved from the sand pile on the tomb pit before the dynasty.
"In Upper Egypt, people would simply wrap the body in a reed mat or goat skin and bury it in the desert at a distance from the inhabitants, covered with a hillock, and burial objects were placed around the deceased. Later, wood was used to cover the grave."
"Although the sand pile was purely functional at first, it developed a certain religious meaning during its development, and was therefore retained . Perhaps the mound also symbolizes the 'book' that gives birth to life."
Don't say something we don't understand.
[Book: In the Heliopolis creation myth, the mound that rose from the primordial waters, on which the creator god created humans, gods, and the world.]
【Where is the treasure? Where is my treasure? 】
"However, the pier as the foundation of the superstructure would result in an unstable structure. Later, a circle of walls were reinforced around the pier, and an inclined outer embankment was built against the outer edge of the wall, covered with a stepped brick shell."
Bifang brought the torch closer to the sand dune, and everyone saw a circle of mud brick shell.
Unfortunately, after walking around for a long time, Bifang didn't see anything valuable.
Even though he doesn't take it, it doesn't mean he doesn't want to see it.
Tutankhamun's golden mask is world-famous. If you can find a similar one, it would be an absolute honor. Many people would be jealous.
In the future, everyone who goes to the museum and sees it will remember that this gold ornament was first found by an explorer named Bifang.
"But it's not completely hopeless. The most valuable items are usually kept close to the tomb's owner. If we find the tomb, we might be able to discover the treasure."
"If it's a tomb chamber, it should be further down."
In the darkness, Bifang groped carefully with a torch in hand.
Another benefit of having a memory palace is that once you walk through it once, you will basically remember the maze-like tomb and will never go the wrong way.
After just a simple exploration, the approximate route of the entire tomb has already appeared clearly in Bifang's mind.
Bifang held the torch and after some searching he finally found the entrance to the underground tomb. He threw a stone, estimated the height, and began to walk down.
【By the way, why are there no traps here? 】
[Yeah, shouldn't it be the kind where you step on a stone slab and then a mechanism appears on the side, and a row of arrows shoot out with clicks?]
[I've seen this before, and there was also a huge rolling rock that suddenly appeared behind them, pushing everyone to run away]
【What the hell is going on here? 】
[Uh, I can only say that you watch too many movies]
[In normal archaeology, except for poisonous gases, usually no mechanism is considered. That is all made up in novels.]
【Ah, it's Professor Song! 】
[What Professor Song? I don’t remember it anymore]
[This is the history professor who appeared when Lao Fang discovered a new species]
I don’t know if history is always accidental.
The last time an unknown area was discovered was also in the desert, and it was also Professor Song who provided the answer.
It's like some kind of reappearance.
In response to the audience's questions, Professor Song once again gave answers on behalf of Bifang.
[So far, we have not found any examples of crossbows being used to prevent theft in ancient tombs, nor any examples of fire being used to prevent theft.]
[These mechanisms are basically imaginary. The crossbow must have tension to fire. Under the technological conditions of ancient times, this tension could not last for a long time, and there was no way to use a precise mechanism to trigger it to aim and fire. Even if there was, the iron smelting conditions did not allow it. Nowadays, alloy steel cannot guarantee that it will not rust for thousands of years, let alone in ancient times.]
[As for poisonous insects and snakes, that is even more unrealistic. In the closed space of the ancient tomb, it is a problem how poisonous insects can survive without food. ]
[The only problem is probably the poison gas problem that Bifang mentioned before he came in, but usually it is naturally created after being buried deep underground, not artificially.]
[Modern chemistry that can synthesize artificial poison gas was developed very late. Chemical weapons were not put into use until World War I, and were soon banned from use in war by all mankind. There were no chemical weapons in ancient times. Alchemists might occasionally discover some poison gas, but they could not be produced continuously or used in a targeted manner.]
【Ah, thank you Professor Song】
[I always thought it was true]
I landed again, and the surroundings seemed even darker.
As soon as Bifang raised the torch, a burly human male appeared in front of everyone.
My hair stands on end!
Everyone was horrified.
No one expected that there was a person hiding in the dark underground tomb!
Even Bifang was so shocked that he took two steps back, but then he realized something was wrong.
The man in front of him didn't move at all, and didn't look like a living person at all.
When the torches were brought closer, everyone realized that it was just a statue built into a pit in the wall. It was just that the light was too dim and the image was blurry, which led to everyone making a mistake at first.
Bifang calmed down and thought for a while: "It should be the statue of the tomb owner. In order to protect it, it is usually hidden inside the masonry. I don't know why this one is exposed. I was also shocked just now."
[Luckily it’s fake, my soul almost flew away]
[Fuck, I was really scared just now]
[It’s really too torturous without a flashlight. The light is too weak. My heart can’t take it.]
[There are not enough heart-saving pills]
Just when everyone thought it was just a false alarm and relaxed.
The sound of a heavy object falling to the ground suddenly came from above the tomb, and the sound was so clear that it seemed to be right in front of us.
