Chapter 1159: Best Temple

Zagazig is a city located in the northeast of Cairo. As the capital of a province, Zagazig should not be regarded as a small city, but compared with Cairo, an international metropolis with a population of more than 20 million, Zagazig with a population of only Gazig seems to be too far behind, at most equivalent to a county-level city in China.

The city is located in the fertile Nile Delta, and a canal flows through the city. The unique conditions make it an important agricultural and trading center in Egypt. In addition, Zagazig University is quite famous in Egypt and even in the Middle East.

However, for foreigners, few people know this small and humble city. Even if there is an important museum in this city, it is difficult to attract tourists to visit this city. After all, if you want to see cultural relics in Egypt, There are simply too many options.

About 3 kilometers southeast of Zagazig, there is a wasteland piled up with rubble. Even if people who don’t know drive past this wasteland, they will probably not stop on purpose, but will only regard it as a dumping place for construction waste.

However, this grassy wasteland was one of the most sacred and prosperous places in Egypt two to three thousand years ago. At that time, the city was not called Zagazig, but Bubastis.

This wasteland is the ruins of the Temple of Best.

During the Ptolemaic dynasty, the annual Bubastis was the biggest festival in Egypt, none of them.

When the festival is approaching, more than 700,000 pilgrims flock to Bubastis from all over Egypt and even abroad to participate in this grand carnival, devoutly offering sacrifices to Best and praying for the blessing of the goddess.

It is said that more wine is drunk during the Bubastis festival than in all of Egypt combined at other times of the year.

When other countries were just establishing their own civilizations, Bubastis, two to three thousand years ago, was already a city that never sleeps, singing and dancing every night, even today's Paris, New York, and Tokyo can hardly match it.

In the morning after the carnival, the streets were full of drunks lying down, but the warm temperature and the protection of Goddess Best kept them from freezing to death.

The people who wake up leave contentedly, and the next year they will still come on time and throw themselves into the all-night carnival again.

The prosperity has come to an end, and today's Bubastis has disappeared into the long river of history, and the once glorious Best Temple has been reduced to rubble.

Counting lunch time and driving on the potholed roads in Egypt for another two or three hours, it was already afternoon when Zhang Zian arrived here by car, and the sun had become gentle and not so scorching.

The thousand-year-old breeze blows through the ruined walls, the wild grass undulates like waves, a corner of the house is exposed among the leaves of palm trees and date palms in the distance, and the sound of insects adds to the silence here.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Zian couldn't help but think of the ruins of the Old Summer Palace. As the pinnacle of human gardening art, the Old Summer Palace, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, was also destroyed by the invasion and war of alien races.

Fina got out of the car alone, and walked slowly to a square stone, which seemed to be a broken stone pillar.

Its front paws lightly brushed against the surface of the stone pillar, feeling the bumps and ups and downs.

The traces of carvings can be vaguely seen on the stone pillars, but the contents of the carvings have long been unrecognizable after thousands of years of wind and sun, and the archaeological value is almost zero. It is more like a tombstone of the Temple of Best. People pay homage to the glory of this place and its current decline.

The other elves thought this was just an ordinary wasteland. After hearing Zhang Zian's whispered story, they realized the extraordinary past and the special significance of this place to Fina.

They stopped far away on the edge of the ruins, because at this time, Fina must want to be alone more.

This is Fina's shrine.

This is Fina's home.

It's finally home.

"What a crime..." Lao Cha shook his head sadly, "How many great works of art have been destroyed by the struggle between human beings... Just considering the scale of this ruin, the size and luxury of the Temple of Best was probably comparable to royal palace.

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Zhang Zian nodded, "According to records, the Temple of Best is a square with four sides of equal length, and each side is as long as an open-air stadium, and the width of the main sacrifice road that runs through the temple is unexpectedly 120 meters, which is equivalent to the widest street on Chang'an Avenue." Location—I believe this record is basically correct, otherwise it would not be possible to accommodate 700,000 pilgrims in this vicinity."

The elves were even more astonished when they heard this.

They have all been to the capital, and they have also seen the flag-raising ceremony on Chang'an Avenue, and they still have fresh memories of that magnificent street, but they never imagined that as early as two or three thousand years ago, there was actually a road in the Temple of Best The officiant road is comparable to Chang'an Avenue.

Zhang Zian continued: "Not only that, but the layout of the Best Temple is extremely gorgeous and elegant. The ancient Egyptians drew two canals from the river running through Bubastis, each canal is more than 30 meters wide, one on the left and one on the right. Surrounding the Best Temple, they are not connected to each other, and only the entrance is available for passage. The temple was built in accordance with the standards of building a city. The gate of the temple is 20 meters high, and there are 3-meter-high reliefs carved from it. When passing through the door, under the gaze of the relief, one can feel the insignificance of oneself and the greatness of Best."

Based on these figures alone, they can feel how magnificent the Best Temple was back then.

And such a great temple is actually Fina's home!

Every elf was deeply shocked.

"Quack! If it's my uncle, who is used to living in such a luxurious palace, and then goes to live in your small and dilapidated pet shop, he must feel that life would be worse than death!" Richard patted Zhang Zian's face with his wings sympathetically. head.

"It doesn't matter, you can live or die." He glared at it.

"Quack! Ben Da thinks it's better to live than to die!" Richard shouted shamelessly.

No wonder Fina is always complaining about the pet store, and she is also dissatisfied with diet and daily life. They sometimes think that Fina is a bit too picky, but in fact, whoever is in Fina's position is used to living in the world The most luxurious palace, used to eating the most delicious food in the world, was suddenly thrown into a commoner family, and the treatment produced a gap like a catastrophe. Everyone would feel uneasy, and even feel that life is worse than death. It's possible, just like the descendants of wealthy families in ancient times.

Fina tried her best to adapt to the civilian life in the pet shop just by complaining a few words. It would be impossible to do it without an extremely strong will.

Today, it returns to the temple after two thousand years, what kind of ups and downs have occurred in its heart?