Chapter 16 egyptian giant question mark

Arrived in Cairo late last night.In the Roman era, this route took several months by boat, and many great grievances and great battles recorded in history took place here, such as Cleopatra and Roman general Antony in this vast waters Life and death, hatred and longing, are called the greatest love in ancient Western history by later generations. But, so far as Egypt is concerned, Cleopatra was too young to be worth mentioning.We came here to find the source of Greek culture. In front of Pharaoh, even those Greek philosophers with long beards became hairy children.Spanning from Greece to Egypt is to push our research focus back from 2,500 years ago to 4,700 years ago, which is equivalent to pushing from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in China to the legendary Yellow Emperor era.

Cairo airport is much bigger than Athens airport, but quite messy.All the luggage and equipment we brought needed to be opened and inspected, so many things were spread out in a long line.Peeking not far away, a fat small clothing merchant is being inspected. Hundreds of various clothes are spread all over the floor, all of which are crumpled and inferior. , At least two or three hours have been touched, but there is a big bag just torn apart.At first I thought I was checking for drugs, but the wolf dog who checked for drugs was squatting far away in another corner and did not come over. Xu Gehui wandered there over and over again, his face seemed to be calm, but his eyes showed intense irritability.I said: Ge Hui, I can see that, if our luggage is also ruined like this, you might bump into them and bite their hands.She was very surprised and asked: Hey, how did you see it?

Fortunately, there was no incident that caused Xu Gehui to bump his head. The Egyptian Customs learned that he was Chinese and let him go with a wave of his hand.Just after passing the customs, our five jeeps greeted us, and their wheels will take us to measure the long distance between several civilizations. Look for a hotel to stay. As soon as you enter a hotel in Egypt, you will encounter a security check door, and the police will stand next to you.As soon as we went out, a policeman with a gun also got into the car, and he followed us closely after we got out of the car, which made the atmosphere quite tense all of a sudden.

The hotel is called a four-star hotel, but it is actually a small guest house. There is no place to write in my room, and the bathing facilities in the bathroom cannot be used.I was told that the food on the street must not be eaten casually, but the food in the hotel is also difficult to eat.All the meat was deep-fried until it was extremely hard and burnt black, and it was fried very slowly. After waiting for a long time, the first time it came out, the face was full of sadness.Choose and choose, you can only eat a kind of bread that we call Egyptian food to satisfy your hunger. The large block where the hotel is located is quite backward, there is no good house in sight, the roads are crowded and dirty, and the shops sell basically cheap goods.It was later discovered that the entire old city of Cairo is basically the same, and the new city is much better, especially the section by the Nile River is quite particular.However, the backward old town is too big.We were looking for a hotel in this area to be close to the pyramids.

All this is beyond my expectation.I really didn't expect the famous city of Cairo to be so dilapidated and disturbing. Athens is disappointing enough, but when you arrive in Cairo, Athens becomes a civilized world that people miss. After all, there are many cute shops and restaurants in the small streets there, and there is no safety concern for wandering around. The road to the pyramids is well built.Walking, when there is a piece of yellow sand under your feet, and a few camels appear beside you, when you look up, they are already in front of you. There are three big ones, several small ones, and the Sphinx statue with a sphinx.All of these are pure brownish-yellow, only the sunlight and cloud shadows outline the rhythm of light and dark layers.Originally, such an environment and shape would easily make people feel monotonous, desolate and bitter, but there is none of them, which pushes the inertia of human feeling out of the normal track.

What is more challenged is the normal track of knowledge.I stood in front of the largest Khufu Pyramid and looked up respectfully, with a lot of questions in my heart. Archaeologists concluded that it was built more than 4,700 years ago. According to simple labor calculations, it took 100,000 craftsmen to build this one for 20 years.But this kind of calculation is a stupid way, and a series of insurmountable problems have not been considered at all. For example, what tools are used to transport these huge stones, and how are they moved up?How much national power is needed to support the expenditure of 100,000 craftsmen for 20 years?And what kind of population base is needed to pave the way for such a national strength under the economic level at that time?So, what was the total population of Egypt at that time?What is the total population of the earth?

What's more troublesome is that such a seemingly rough work requires the care of a gold and silver jeweler, because until today, there is no gap between the stones that can be cut into a thin blade!Of course, the most amazing thing is that the various data measured from the pyramids are in perfect agreement with a large amount of astronomical data. What is going on? Until this century, many world-renowned engineers have repeatedly measured, thought, and wandered, and concluded that even if this level of engineering technology is placed in the 20th century, mobilizing all the most advanced equipment to participate will encounter a lot of amazing difficulties.So, how did the Egyptians reach this level four or five thousand years ago?And according to some geologists' assertion, the age of this pyramid will double, and it may have been built 10,000 years ago!

The description of the construction of the pyramid that we often quote now is the description of the ancient Greek historian Herodotus when he inspected Egypt.This may seem authoritative at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, Herodotus visited Egypt in the fifth century BC. According to the most conservative estimate, the pyramids he saw had been built for more than 1,200 years. Just like we are talking about the Tang Dynasty today.The Tang Dynasty left a lot of information, but at least Herodotus did not find the information about the pyramid, so his inference is only a distant guess.We know nothing about the real purpose of construction, the process of construction, and the way of construction.It is said to be the tomb of the pharaoh, but in the largest pyramid, who has seen the mummy of the pharaoh's body?Moreover, how much evidence is there about the mausoleum after digging in again and again?Still just guesswork.

Standing in front of the pyramid, all people are faced with a series of huge question marks. Don't hastily delete the question mark, and hastily replace it with an exclamation point of praise or a full stop of judgment.The history of human civilization is far from ready to be read and interpreted. Among them, the most questionable one is the Egyptian civilization.The words we can tell over and over again are actually the result of archaeologists digging through the ruins for more than a century. Compared with the parts that have already been destroyed and have not been crawled out, they are just the tip of the iceberg.

In front of the pyramid, it is somewhat ridiculous to think that we often see some omniscient critics on weekdays.How Napoleon was so arrogant back then, but when his army arrived at the pyramid.I also suddenly felt my own insignificance. On the morning of October 9, 1999.Cairo, Egypt, Overnight at Les 3 Pyramides Hotel