This is a military control zone, but it is a control zone that is about to be abandoned, and the main reason for the abandonment is not because of the transfer of the ground division, but because of the change in the international situation.

In the past few decades, the Arab countries have liked to smash Israel, which will be much more stable on both sides, and with the change in Egypt's foreign policy over the years, there is no longer a need for so many military control areas.

Besides, it is clear that there is still a solid foundation for the development of tourism in this area, and it is only a matter of time before military facilities are relocated.

A division of tens of thousands of people, of course, is not only deployed in this area, according to Zhang Nan's estimate, this is originally an armored regiment-level unit is not bad.

Yesterday, I learned that the army's main station was originally in the southern area of the control area, more than a kilometer away from the curved pyramid, and Zhang Nan and his people could not go there because there were a small number of personnel left behind.

The barracks provided for the archaeological team and Zhang Nan were very close to the curved pyramid, and there was a barracks less than 200 meters west of the pyramid.

But instead of stopping here, the convoy continued southwest into the desert, two kilometers away where the archaeological team was located: the barracks had sufficient infrastructure, but both Zhang Nan and Chariz Theron wanted to see the archaeological site first.

A patch of sand, slightly undulating, should have risen slightly twenty or thirty meters above sea level on the banks of the Nile.

The two or three kilometers of desert terrain on this side of the Nile River are a bit unworthy of the name, in Zhang Nan's view, it is more like the Gobi, there is sand, but not much, and the terrain is still very flat, which may be the result of the efforts of Egypt from generation to generation for thousands of years.

Protect the Nile and the irrigated areas along its flanks, the real lifeline of Egypt, if the dunes pounce on the Nile, the river will not break, but agriculture will be finished!

But at a sufficient distance from the river bank, this dune appeared, although it was not very high, but it was still a dune.

Through the window of the car, I saw armed guards, uniforms and equipment, and it was obvious that they were still members of the "combined forces".

A row of off-road vehicles was parked on the side, and the archaeological excavation site was on the side, and the convoy also parked here.

To get out of the car, Zhang Nan put a sunhat on the dining table and buttoned it on the girl's head, "Bring it, beware of tanning." ”

"I think the wheat color is more beautiful. ”

Charlie wanted to take her hat off.

"I don't like the color of yellow and white, in a few years, you want the audience to see a wheat-colored British aristocratic girl?"

A little racist remark made the girl immediately stop her movements, grinned, and straightened the hat on her head.

My brother doesn't like wheat, so he doesn't tan it.

Zhang Nan has yellow skin, which is a healthy color, but the so-called wheat color deliberately tanned by white people, he looks a little awkward.

It doesn't matter if a man is tanned like that, it's about his own birds!

But little Charlie doesn't look good like that, and she's not Latina either, she is a standard white person, so it's a little white.

Zhang Nan is still quite picky.

After getting out of the car, the bodyguards divided into two layers and surrounded Zhang Nan and the girl in the middle.

I saw Professor William Brin walking briskly dozens of meters away, but he didn't need to be ignored, because the leader of the security contractor, who had arrived early, was reporting to Kwan Xingquan on the security arrangement.

There are no Egyptians here, and officials from their Ministry of Culture are said to come only once every few days, because of the bureaucracy and William Bryn's lack of telling them his true judgment.

As for the Egyptian soldiers who stayed behind, there were dozens of big cats and kittens, and they only cared about guarding the military equipment and barracks, except for a captain who stayed behind and brought two people to visit it once during the excavation at the beginning, and then they didn't come to join in the fun at all.

It was all gravel and sand, and some stones lined up: in other countries it might have aroused the curiosity of the soldiers, but in this case Egypt, they had long been used to it. If there is a text or a portrait on the slate, then they may still pay attention to it, but it is a stone, and it will not come again on a hot day.

It's good to look after the house, and the Ministry of Culture coordinates it, and this area will be used by the archaeological team in at least two or three months.

The army is too lazy to participate, as for why don't the people in the Ministry of Culture care......

The captain asked who to go?

This is funny, the people from the Ministry of Culture think that the soldiers are watching, and the soldiers think that the people from the Ministry of Culture are there, and the two sides take it for granted, and they talk to each other on the phone once in half a month.

It looks like this:

"Great soldier, hard work!"

"Well, it's okay, it's just too hot, but it's better than the brothers who went to the bay. It's a pity, I have to watch the house, and I have to watch it for you, if it's in the Persian Gulf......"

"That's it, I can't say much about it, I hope the lads ......"

As soon as the phone call began, he went off topic and said a few unclassified war topics in passing, without saying where the Americans had dug up, and then the call ended.

If the system is not unified and not jointed, it will be like this.

On the other hand, almost every day or two in the archaeological camp, people come in jeeps to deal with the soldiers, either going to Cairo or Dekhshur to buy two cases of Coke, or to buy some fresh vegetables from the soldiers.

Egypt's army had farms, and the troops were located in the Nile-side irrigation area outside the control zone, where there were soldiers who specialized in agricultural production and hired some nearby civilian laborers.

In peacetime, it not only supplies the needs of the army, but also wholesals to the market in Cairo, and recently the main force of the army has been transferred, and the supply is abundant, and the officers who remain behind do not mind replenishing the small coffers.

In this way, the relationship between the two sides is good.

......

After getting out of the car, Zhang Nan took a look at the nearby environment, and an observation post was arranged on the sand dunes with a height of more than 100 meters and a height of about 20 meters.

Although it is already October, the temperature in the shady place during the day can still reach 344 or 5 degrees, even if the dry heat is not particularly uncomfortable, but it is definitely enough to choke under the sun!

Hiding on the sand pile?

That's not much different from simmering eggs.

When William arrived, he said, "Mr. Allen, you're finally here!"

Our discovery will definitely go down in history!"

A few acquaintances, a large group of security contractors with sunglasses, even if Mr. Professor tears his throat open, he doesn't have to worry about his words being heard by the Egyptians.

After doing his superficial work and shaking hands with the other party, Zhang Nan said: "William, you won't find the second Tutankhamun tomb, right?"

This is clearly a joke among old friends: Tutankhamun's burial place is in the Valley of the Royal Tombs, the only one whose main burial chamber has not been stolen.

What's here?

One of the three major pyramid areas, it would not be strange to find a pyramid construction site that was abandoned shortly after the start of construction, but if there is a pharaoh's tomb, or the kind that has not been stolen and excavated, what would it be a joke?

The result was unexpected, and William Brin said in a mysterious and low voice: "We must have discovered the fourth pyramid built by Pharaoh Snefru!"

We are very level, and here Zhang Nan has an incredible expression on his face.

"Really, Mr. Allen. The pyramid was removed from the building stones, leaving only the remains of about 20 meters high, which was originally covered by sand dunes, so it was not found.

Not only that, but a burial ground of pharaonic officials hiding near the pyramid has been discovered, and although most of it has been stolen, there is still an intact one.

Originally, it was supposed to be a flat-topped tomb, and the level was not low. ”

The pyramid, that is not a separate existence, as usual there will be some temples and other facilities around it, and it is also one of the conventions to have a cemetery for the important ministers and close servants of the pyramid owner nearby.

It's just that the limestone pyramids will collapse and disappear in the long past, and the granite blocks will make time fear it, but it can't stop the destruction of those who have not recorded anything at all for more than 4,000 years.

Ancient Egypt went through more than 30 dynasties that lasted more than 3,000 years before it was destroyed by Octavian, the latest of which was more than 2,000 years ago.

To put it bluntly, these dynasties are the same dynasties as ancient China, and the time is so old that even the records of the Roman era are incomplete, let alone the 2,600 years from the Fourth Dynasty to the Roman era.

For 26 centuries, the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty was about 2625 BC, but the positioning can give a special note that "the chronological error may be 100 years".

At that time, there were written records, but after 46 centuries, there were too few records to penetrate!

What is known now is that the Fourth Dynasty lasted for more than 110 years, note, only approximately, because this dynasty was preceded and followed by 7 pharaohs, including Snifrud, Khufu, Regidev, Khafre, Menkara, Shepseysk and Dedevptakh.

"probably, for many years, and so on......" a bunch of non-affirmative words, because I really can't be sure, it's too long!

Whoever pits who is two-forced!

The Fourth Dynasty is famous, the first pharaoh of the dynasty, Snifru, built the Curved Pyramids, the Red Pyramids... His son Khufu was the second pharaoh, and Khufu's son Khafre built the second largest pyramid in Egypt and is believed to be the builder of the Sphinx next to the pyramid.

Pharaoh Khufu is famous enough, the Great Pyramid was built by him, but today's people can only think that he inherited the throne of the pharaoh in his twenties based on records more than 2,000 years ago, according to the Turin King Table (a Turin papyrus that has been found today, also known as the Turin King Table, is a historical record of all the pharaohs in ancient Egypt before 1200 BC, and is the basis of the chronicles of the ancient Egyptian dynasty. He reigned for about 23 years.

However, that document does not seem to be very reliable, and other later sources record a longer reign of Khufu: Maneto (active from the late fourth century BC to the beginning of the third century BCE, an ancient Egyptian priest and historian who wrote the History of Egypt in Greek, some fragments of which have been preserved by church historians and have become important historical sources for the study of ancient Egypt today). ) put his reign at 63 years, while the ancient Greek writer and historian Herodotus, who lived in the fifth century BCE, put it at 50 years.

As for the modern archaeological discoveries of Pharaoh Khufu, in addition to the large pyramid like a mountain, there is only a statue of a pharaoh only as long as a finger, and there are several places where stones engraved with his name have been found.

Besides, as for his father Snifrus, there are three pyramids left behind, but it is not certain where he is buried!

People are afraid of time, and time is afraid of the pyramid...

But time can erase the pyramid builders!

Now I hear William say that not only the possible fourth pyramid has been discovered, but also the burial tombs of the same period, which is amazing!

Not to mention the pyramid itself and the burial tombs that have not been stolen, even if it is found that the burial cemetery has been dug up in the past 4,000 years, it is a major discovery in ancient Egyptian archaeology!

Pulling Zhang Nan into the gang, this William must have other plans, not just for fame.

If it was just for the sake of fame, he would have succeeded, and even if it was left to the Egyptians to dig it themselves, it would be enough to make him famous in the world archaeological community.