Chapter 837: Figure in the Tomb

Faced with the audience's request, Bifang sternly refused.

[I have reason to suspect who Fangshen is implying (dog head)]

[Fangshen is not a robber, but someone is]

[Don't talk nonsense, go inside and take a look]

[Boring, no treasure, we want to see a river of blood! ]

The fire flickered, illuminating the small space.

The information on the wall was extremely rich and clear, and there were a large number of patterns densely painted, which were quite exquisite.

On it, brown-skinned little people lined up in a row, as if they were offering sacrifices to something.

Bifang was a little overwhelmed.

When it comes to the pyramids of ancient Egypt, everyone knows it, but when it comes to the predecessor of the ancient Egyptian pyramids, mastaba, few people know it.

But this is also a part that you must see when you come to Egypt.

This may be the first time 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 have posted comments of praise and incredible comments.

At first, the quicksand on the ground loosened, revealing a cave, and no one realized the exaggeration of the matter.

Bifang actually found such a unique scene underground.

This is not a natural cave, but a relic!

A real ancient relic!

This of course caused a sensation on the Internet again.

With the advancement of human technology and the launch of satellites one after another, there may be unfindable lost things in the primeval forest, but the desert has almost no secrets for people.

Once the satellite photo is taken, the pyramids can be seen at a glance, without riding a camel and searching with great difficulty.

Therefore, almost all the undiscovered relics in the desert are located underground or in the cracks of a canyon. It is not easy to find them in this case.

It is for this reason that after entering the 21st century, we will no longer hear about explorers like Howard Carter, an archaeologist from the Central Kingdom, who became famous for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamun.

The difficulty of finding relics is getting higher and higher, and there are fewer and fewer explorers. This kind of news about discovering relics seems to really only exist in the last century, in history, and in movies.

I never thought that it would actually appear in reality, just like the movie The Mummy has become a reality.

"Mastabas are different from pyramids. Pyramids are completely exposed above the surface. 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 even have no surface parts and are completely buried underground."

The most excited people who discovered this lost relic by Bifang are probably the archaeologists who study the history of ancient Egypt.

During the time he entered the ruins, he had seen a large circle 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 languages ​​he couldn't even understand.

As for the excitement of the audience, let alone, they were excited about everything they saw.

It's just that it's not as shocking as being there in person after all, separated by a screen.

Watching in the video, I can never personally experience the heavy sense of history.

Footsteps sounded in the empty corridor, and the light and shadow swayed with it.

While Bifang was looking at the murals, he also popularized some history about ancient Egypt to the audience.

"The original pyramid was a combination of layers of mastabas. The mud bricks became whole stone bricks, and each layer was narrower than the previous one until the top was completed. Therefore, we can see that many pyramids are in the shape of steps, and there are many rooms inside."

[Is the pyramid outside like this? ]

[I always thought that the pyramid was destroyed or collapsed before it became stepped]

[This ancient tomb must have been built not long before the Djoser Pyramid, and all the details are quite complete]

[Djoser Pyramid, I have heard of it, it seems to be the first pyramid, right? ]

With the continuous progress of ancient Egyptian civilization, the Egyptian pharaohs began to have a higher pursuit of various sacrificial rituals.

During the reign of Pharaoh Djoser from about 2635 BC to 2610 BC, Pharaoh Djoser ordered his prime minister Imhotep to build him a new form of tomb that was different from the previous mastaba.

Imhotep was a genius. After accepting the task assigned by the pharaoh, he began to concentrate on the design and shape of the new tomb.

In the minds of the ancient Egyptians, the pharaoh was the son of the sun god Amon, and the agent and incarnation of God on earth. After the pharaoh died, his soul would ascend to heaven.

Based on this concept, 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 layer of mastaba is smaller than the next layer, and they overlap upward in a stepped shape.

"The final work is the Pyramid of Djoser. The entire tomb is 62 meters high, with a base of 109 meters by 125 meters, a total of six layers, and it is the first stepped pyramid in history."

"Unlike many later Egyptian pyramids, all the internal spaces of the step pyramid are underground, including the huge central shaft leading to the tomb chamber."

"The total length of the underground passages of the Step Pyramid is more than 6 kilometers, and the structure is complex like a maze. This is probably the result of continuous experiments in the process of building a new tomb."

"At the same time, there are many blue bricks 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 step here. There was a small platform on the step.

The platform is not high, it looks like a desk, I don't know what it is used for.

[I want to ask, do you have to know astronomy and geography to be a host now? ]

[That's right]

[You are not ashamed to 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 complex structure of the underground would lead to too much hollowing inside, and finally insufficient load-bearing, and the whole thing would collapse very easily."

"The bottom of the Djoser Pyramid collapsed partially, so the layered pyramid evolved into a solid one, leaving only the corridor and the last tomb chamber, and the overall appearance became very smooth, as if it were one piece."

"The typical example of this solid pyramid is Khufu, the largest pyramid in the world. Before the Eiffel Tower was built in Paris in 1888, it was the tallest building in the world."

Bifang then walked through many passages, and at the end of many passages 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 wooden boat fragments near some of the tables.

Seeing these wooden boat fragments, Bifang knew what the small table next to him was.

"It's just a small altar."

"The ancient Egyptians regarded houses as temporary residences, and tombs as permanent residences."

"During the dynasty, the number of mastabas gradually increased, and small altars located to the north and wooden boats next to the tombs appeared one after another."

"People believe that the dead pharaoh will ride this small wooden boat every day to accompany the sun god across the entire sky from east to west."

"This guy must be very rich."

"The complexity of the mastaba depends on the wealth and social status of the owner. The small rooms in the ground building represent the various rooms in the palace."

"There are no corridors inside."

After walking around the outside, Bifang entered the interior 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 because people believe that the soul can pass through the material barrier without damage.

Bifang also found a mound above the central tomb pit, which is not difficult to imagine that it evolved from the sand pile on the tomb pit before the dynasty.

"In Upper Egypt, people would simply wrap the body with reed mats or goat skins, and then bury it in the desert at a distance from the residents, covered with a small hill, and the burial supplies were placed around the deceased. Later, wood was used to cover the grave."

"Although the sand pile was purely functional at the beginning, it developed a certain religious meaning during development, so it was retained in the new tomb structure. Perhaps the mound also symbolizes the "book" that breeds life."

[Don't say something we don't understand]

[Book: The mound that rose from the primordial waters in the Heliopolis creation myth. The creator god created humans, gods and the world on the mound. ]

[Where is the treasure, where is my treasure? ]

"However, the mound as the foundation of the superstructure will lead to an unstable structure. Later, after reinforcing a circle of walls around the mound, an inclined outer embankment was built against the outside of the wall, and the outer shell was built in a stepped brick shell."

Bifang brought the torch close to the sand dune, and everyone saw a circle of mud brick shells.

Unfortunately, after walking around for a long time, Bifang didn't see anything valuable.

Although he didn't take it, it didn't mean he didn't want to see it.

Tutankhamun's golden mask is world-famous. If you can find a similar one, it will definitely be the supreme honor. Many people will be jealous.

In the future, everyone who sees it in the museum will remember that this golden 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 owner of the tomb. If you find the tomb, you may find the treasure."

"If it's a tomb, it should be further down."

In the dark, Bifang held a torch and groped carefully.

Another advantage of having a memory palace is that as long as you walk through it once, you can basically remember this maze-like tomb and you won't go the wrong way at all.

Just now, after a simple exploration, the approximate route of the entire tomb is already clear in Bifang's mind.

Bifang held a torch and finally found the entrance to the underground tomb after searching for a while. He threw a stone, estimated the height, and started to walk down.

[By the way, why aren't there any traps here? ]

[Yeah, shouldn't it be the kind where you step on a stone slab and a mechanism appears on the side, and a row of arrows shoot out? ]

[I've seen this before, and there was also a rolling boulder that suddenly appeared behind, pushing everyone to run away]

[What the hell is going on? ]

[Uh, I can only say that you've watched too many movies]

[In normal archaeology, except for poisonous gases, mechanisms are usually not considered. Those are all made up in novels]

[Ah, it's Professor Song! ]

[What Professor Song? I don't remember him anymore]

[It's the history professor who appeared when Lao Fang discovered a new species]

I don’t know if history is always accidental.

The last time the unknown area was discovered was also in the desert, and it was also Professor Song who gave the answer.

It seemed like a reappearance.

In response to the audience’s questions, Professor Song once again answered on behalf of Bifang.

[So far, we have not found any examples of using crossbows to prevent theft in ancient tombs, nor any examples of using fire to prevent theft. ]

[These mechanisms are basically imagined. There must be tension to fire a crossbow. Under the technological conditions of ancient times, this tension cannot last for a long time, and it is impossible to use precise mechanisms to trigger it to aim and fire. Even if there is, the conditions for iron smelting do not allow it. Alloy steel cannot guarantee that it will not rust for thousands of years, let alone ancient times. ]

[As for poisonous insects and snakes, it is even more unrealistic. In the closed space of the ancient tomb, it is a problem for poisonous insects to survive without food. ]

[The only problem is probably the poison gas problem mentioned by Bifang before he came in, but it is usually born naturally after being buried deep underground, not artificially. 】

【Modern chemistry that can synthesize artificial poison gas was created very late. Chemical weapons were not put into use until the First World War, and were soon banned by all mankind for use in war. There were no chemical weapons in ancient times. Alchemists might occasionally find some poison gas, but they could not produce it continuously or use it in a targeted manner. 】

【Ah, thank you Professor Song】

【I always thought it was true】

Once again, the surroundings seemed even darker.

As soon as Bifang put up the torch, a burly human male appeared in front of everyone.

The hair stood up!

Everyone was horrified.

No one expected that there was a person hiding in the dark underground tomb!

Even Bifang was shocked and took two steps back, but then he realized that something was wrong.

The man in front of him was motionless and did not look like a living person at all.

When the torch got closer, everyone realized that it was just a statue built into a pit in the wall, but the firelight was too dim and the image was blurred, which led to everyone's initial recognition.

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."

[Fortunately it is fake, my soul almost flew away]

[Fuck, I was really scared just now]

[It's really too torturous without a flashlight, the fire is too weak, my heart can't stand it]

[There are not enough heart pills]

Just when everyone thought it was just a false alarm and relaxed.

The sound of a heavy object falling suddenly came from above the tomb, spreading clearly, as if it was right in front of us.