Chapter 1169: The Lost City

More than 2,000 years ago, the predecessor of Alexandria was just an inconspicuous small city in ancient Egypt. Later, after Alexander the Great brought Egypt into his territory, he chose this location.

It is close to the Nile Delta, but the distance is far enough to avoid the flooding of the Nile due to river siltation; at the same time, it has convenient transportation, with Africa in the south, the Mediterranean Sea in the north, and the Middle East in the east. Los Island can protect the port with its horns, and has a unique geographical advantage.

So he decided to build a new city here and name it after himself.

After his death, his general Ptolemy took the opportunity to separate ancient Egypt and declared himself the pharaoh, and set the last capital of ancient Egypt here until Cleopatra was defeated and died. Ancient Egypt was annexed by ancient Rome and became the capital of ancient Rome. a province.

During the three hundred years that Alexandria existed as the capital, the Ptolemy family used the whole country to build and renovate the city, and established the Alexandria Lighthouse and the Great Library. Unfortunately, they were destroyed by natural disasters and man-made disasters, especially the latter Although it was not included in the Seven Wonders of the World, the burning of the Great Library caused even more serious losses to human civilization.

It was also during that period that the worship of cat gods in ancient Egypt reached its peak. Although the Temple of Best was located in Zagazig, the cat-loving tradition in Alexandria has survived until now.

Like Cairo, Alexandria is also divided into the old city and the new city. The fish market where stray cats are entrenched is located in the old city. Although the overall condition is better than that of Cairo, it gives the impression that it is more dilapidated than a small county in China. Everywhere They are all low-rise buildings in the style of the 1990s in China.

Although they were attracted to the fish market by stray cats, the elves were not interested in Egyptian-style grilled fish. Zhang Zian still had a bitter taste in his mouth after eating grilled fish with scales in the morning, and he didn't plan to eat grilled fish anymore.

There is a saying that if you don’t know what to eat when you go abroad, you can go to KFC or McDonald’s and have a big glass of Fat House Happy Water, because these fast foods are similar in all countries in the world, at least you can’t eat them to death.

Zhang Zian found a KFC, ordered a lot of takeaways, and solved the lunch problem for him and the elves. While they were eating, Vladimir took the opportunity to go out to deal with the local stray cats.

There is not much time left for Vladimir to establish a Meow Meow branch locally.

Although Alexandria has a long history, those glorious pasts have long since disappeared. Everything that can be destroyed has been destroyed, and everything that can be moved has been moved to other countries. The library was rebuilt on the original site, and it cannot be restored, because no one I know what the Great Library used to look like, and the original site of the Lighthouse of Alexandria has even been occupied by doves and magpies. Two obelisks called "Cleopatra's Needle" were moved to the Thames River in London , and the other one was moved to Central Park in New York, which led to the feeling that there were no sights to see after coming to this city, and there was no place left for Fina to pay homage to, which disappointed her a bit.

Zhang Zian drove the car to the seaside, found a remote corner, and enjoyed the seaside scenery while eating.

The advantage of seaside cities is that the air is not as dry as inland. There are just enough clouds in the sky to cover Egypt's overly violent sunshine, and the sea breeze dissipates the heat of the past few days.

The two breakwaters embrace Donggang like two arms, leaving only a not too wide channel for ships to enter and exit. As early as the 8th century AD, Donggang was abandoned due to the earthquake and can only be used as a leisure place for people. A place for entertainment, the current main port is Westport.

Large and small private yachts float on the blue sea, which shows the huge gap between the rich and the poor in Egypt.

There are couples walking hand in hand on the breakwater, and some parents are running happily with a few children. As a city at the junction of Asia, Africa and Europe, the geographical characteristics are also reflected in the skin color of the local children. Many of them are Beautiful mixed race kids, couples also often have different skin tones.

On the beach farther away, densely packed parasols crowded the beach like mushrooms after the rain.

A large number of tourists from Europe come here for vacation, not only can enjoy the exotic scenery, but also enjoy the local low prices.

There is an obvious difference between the beaches here and the beaches in other parts of the world, that is, swimmers generally wear too much cloth, regardless of men and women, which makes Zhang Zian very disappointed. He even saw a few people wearing robes and headscarves The local women just walked directly into the sea and stood in the waist-deep sea to play with their children. Those who didn't know it thought they were going to commit suicide by drowning.

Fina squatted on the rocks by the sea, looking at the sea with thousands of sails racing, she didn't know what she was thinking.

More than 1,600 years ago, Cleopatra's palace sank to the bottom of the sea in an earthquake, just under this not-so-deep wave. Many archaeologists and divers are very interested in this, and have organized diving archaeological expeditions many times, trying to find the secrets of the Ptolemaic Dynasty from the ruins of the seabed. What they are most eager to find is, of course, the tomb or sarcophagus of Cleopatra.

There has been a lot of speculation about the location of Cleopatra's tomb, but nothing to back it up with any evidence.

After she died, all information related to her disappeared, and it was not even possible to determine whether her death was suicide or murder. All relevant descriptions came from the historian Plutarch The biography of the famous movie was also based on it. Unless the person involved is resurrected, no one will know the truth.

Generally speaking, although she is the last ruler of ancient Egypt, it is generally impossible for the ruler's tomb or sarcophagus to be located in the palace, so the search on the seabed is probably futile.

Octavian should give her a decent funeral, because the Egyptians loved her very much at that time, and he didn't need to risk offending the Egyptians for a dead woman.

Fina's golden hair reflects the suitable sunlight, and the sea breeze makes its fur undulate like a smooth brocade, attracting the attention of passers-by. In this cat-loving city, they have seen many cats, but have not seen them. Any cat has hair like it.

It may know some secrets about Cleopatra's death, but it has no intention of speaking out for the time being. As long as the trip to Egypt continues, if he is comfortable with it, maybe it will reveal some clues about the past, so that Zhang Zian can satisfy his curiosity and gossip a little bit.

After eating, Vladimir came back in a hurry, Zhang Zian took the elves into the car, and continued to set off westward, leaving this seaport city that was once beautiful but now only memories.