Early in the morning of the 18th, Sánchez commanded his brothers to lift a heavy stone cover, and the antechamber of the tomb was opened.

Zhang Nan decided not to move the second piece first, anyway, he was already able to enter the front room very comfortably, and there was a cushion platform that could get his feet down.

Because it has been checked with a military poison detector before, it can be determined that there are no toxic substances that can cause harm to humans in the front room, unless Zhang Nan has a good brain to stuff the paint on the wall or the air-dried items on the table into his mouth, otherwise there will be no problem without wearing protective equipment.

No one wants to compete with Zhang Nan for the qualification to be the first to go down, that kind of fascinating feeling, the feeling of latecomers will be much lighter - just stand still, don't be in a hurry to feel it, and send down a 360-degree spherical cold light supported by a tripod.

Put it away, so that you have time to see the whole front room.

The width is about two meters, the length is nearly dead meters, and the height is about two meters: the three-sided mural I saw in the endoscope last time was not particularly correct, because the south-facing side is actually a painted relief, which is much more elaborate than painting on a plaster wall.

The offering table with a length of nearly two meters was placed on the north side, and there were several pottery plates and clay pots on it.

I didn't touch the frescoes or reliefs with my hands, the smell of the ancient Egyptian underworld here is too strong, and it is enough to feel the feeling of talking to the world 4,600 years ago, and you don't need to touch it.

After a while, Zhang Nan signaled, Lin Ming was the second to enter the front room, the third to come down was William Brin, and the fourth was Charlize Theron, who was going to join in the fun.

Just these four people, Lin Ming, the freak, was asked by Boss Guan to go down to the front room first, because in the environment of any outsiders, Zhang Nan had to be accompanied by a bodyguard.

The space below is small, in such a similar small space, Guan Xingquan is reluctant to join hands with Lin Ming, and now it is most suitable for him to accompany Zhang Nan below.

As for Guan Boss himself, he is standing with a translator and a Sanchez on the specially left cover to watch the excitement, and by the way, learn a little awkward Spanish.

As soon as William arrived in the front room, Zhang Nan could see that this guy was very excited!

"This is the mural of the Fourth Dynasty, it is definitely the only one in the world that is so well preserved, and there will definitely be no second place!"

Seeing that he was so excited, Zhang Nan smiled and said, "Cut it down and transport it back?"

Hearing this, William Brin turned around abruptly and looked at Zhang Nan with wide eyes, "Mr. Allen, what did you say?"

"If you like it, move it back, and when everything inside is dug up, this tomb will be buried.

If this is not safe, the sound of bulldozers and cars outside is a little louder, and this is done with some explosives, so that the Egyptians two kilometers away can not hear anything. ”

Zhang Nan's words were earth-shattering, and Charlize Theron, who was beside her, also turned around and looked at her when she heard it, and then...

Go back and continue to study what exactly is on the table: not to mention blowing up this, what if you tear down the pyramid!

It's none of her business.

Lin Ming was still expressionless as usual, and William was shocked in his heart! He knew that Mr. Allen was absolutely capable of getting things back to the United States, and those bodyguards estimated that they would not dare to do anything except assassinate the President of the United States for him!

Those miners are also his people, and William knows that the miners have a very strict mouth, otherwise they will die early...

But that's not the point!

The point is why he said this!

William Brin's mind was racing at high speed, and after a few seconds, he said, "Mr. Allen, everything is up to you." ”

Just now, William Brin felt his back sweat!

"He didn't really want the murals, he wanted an attitude!"

The professor can only think so: he didn't mention the Chinese bronze tripod that magically appeared last time, and he didn't ask about the whereabouts of the hundreds of cultural relics of the Nubian Meroe Dynasty that he moved back to study.

Here's why.

For this answer, Zhang Nan just smiled and did not continue to discuss this topic, which made William Bryn's heart even more worried.

If Mr. Professor said that he would move back just now, it would not be long before he and his team would die in an accident, and the most likely would be to become dried corpses under the Egyptian desert.

This is the decision of Zhang Nan and Guan Xingquan in the past few days, Guan Boss thinks that this William Brin has unclean hands and feet, and his ambition and greed are not small, and he may cause some trouble to Zhang Nan in the future.

It's unlikely to be a problem that won't be solved, but it's not good to damage your reputation.

Knock it out!

Who is Zhang Nan?

I did Tufuzi in my last life!

Although I have always cooperated happily with my partners, because I didn't find a tomb that made the two unhappy without cooperation, I heard a lot of stories about tomb robbers and buried people, and I also saw the bones of ancient tomb robbers in the stolen tombs.

Since everyone has some ideas and doesn't want the Egyptian government to get involved now, it's better to be reminded first.

If William Brin doesn't have a clear mind and too much appetite...

Hehe!

It's not worth it to trouble yourself for the sake of an ancient Egyptian nobleman's tomb, Zhang Nan doesn't mind killing him and his team, of course, after he leaves here.

Now the mural in front of me is a treasure to William Bryn, to the archaeological community of ancient Egypt, and even to the whole world, but not to Zhang Nan!

Zhang Nan has never been interested in the murals in the tomb, especially with human figures.

Evil, don't like it!

But these murals are really good, the murals on both sides are divided into two layers, one upper level is a row of people dancing, the lower level is a group of people working in the fields, and the other side is divided into a group of people...

Zhang Nan couldn't understand it, it was possible that people and gods were talking, and as for the lower level, the two people were spearfishing in a wooden boat with two pointed ends.

The relief on the south-facing side is supposed to be a war scene, with a tall guy holding the head of a black-skinned man in one hand and a semicircular axe in his right hand, as if about to slash at the guy's neck.

Behind this tall man, there was also a row of soldiers with spears and bows, the image was obviously one size smaller, and there were two small men in front of them who were fleeing in confusion.

There is also a string of animal and object symbols below, not to mention, this should be the ancient Egyptian script, an ancient script that was used for more than 3,500 years, then forgotten and died for more than 1,400 years, and was only deciphered around 1830.

Zhang Nan didn't know him, but William did.

"Remarkable discovery, Mr. Allen. The owner of the tomb is a general named Ihadou, who once followed Snefru to conquer the Nubians in the south..."

The first pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, Snifr, led his army to the first real conquest of Nubia in the south, probably in the area of present-day Sudan, and the Nubians were black.

A general 4,600 years ago, and a war were shown in front of him, although the record is extremely simple, but it can also be regarded as "a strong proof of the history of a certain legend".

Big Discovery!

On the offering table were flatbreads that had almost weathered into powder, and on other plates there were remnants of dates and other foodstuffs, and the contents of the clay pots were black, possibly barley.

This is dry enough, and the organic matter cannot be said to be typical charring, but more like powdering.

The craftsmanship of the table was terrible, and Zhang Nan pointed to the plate of flatbread and joked: "This may be the earliest bread in existence, I don't know how it tastes?"

Bread and flatbread are two kinds of food in China, but they can be confused in Egypt today: it is more appropriate to describe the staple food of modern Egyptians as "flatbread baked a little like bread".

And the shape of the plate of food in front of me, even if it has changed a lot because of the passage of time, but it feels similar to modern Egyptian flatbread when it looks like it.

In today's Egypt, flatbread is the absolute staple food, and the flatbread eaten by ordinary people is still subsidized, and it is only a few cents a piece when converted into RMB, which is cheap.

Of course, there are also unsubsidized flatbreads, the same thing, the price is more than ten times that of the former!

Very interesting food, even after more than 20 years, the price of Egypt's "subsidy flatbread" has hardly increased: it can't go up, as soon as it rises, the common people will rebel!

Egypt's population is growing rapidly, but the per capita arable land is much lower than that of China, relying on the little arable land on both sides of the Nile and the estuary area, it is a fool's dream to feed all Egyptians.

A large amount of grain is imported every year, and without subsidies, it is estimated that low-income families in Egypt will not be able to eat.

Zhang Nan accompanied Charlize Theron to study the 4,600-year-old flatbread, while William Brin tapped his hands on the four walls: as expected, the north side was empty behind the plaster wall, and the main burial chamber should be at the back.

Zhang Nan saw that it was almost the same, so he asked people to use a hanging basket to get Charlie up first, and after a while, several people on his side also returned to the ground, and William's two students and two miners who helped were put down.

If you want to draw and take pictures, you have to hurry up and pack the "world's earliest flatbread", so as not to turn into a pile of powder in a few hours.

After that, the mural is covered and closed with a sealed plastic sheet, which is conducive to its adaptation to the new environment and will be protected in the future. As for opening that mud wall, that's at least tonight, or even tomorrow.

......

Before lunch, there was nothing special going on over there at the tomb, but there was something new in the pyramid ruins!

There had been rescue team guys who were busy cleaning up there, and just now they found the entrance to the pyramid!

It was the entrance, a doorway more than two meters high and one meter five wide, which was originally buried by sand and rolling down boulders, which would be found and cleaned up by the miners, and immediately reported to the boss: although the opening had been cleared out, it was a diagonal downward passage, but the inside was still buried by sand, and there was even a big stone that rolled into it.

Hearing the news, William Breen, who had just come up from the tomb of Mastaba, also immediately ran over.

The discovery of a pyramid that is not officially recorded is a major discovery, and the fact that its inner passage is still alive is even more good news: it is likely that there are some original inscriptions in the passage, and even a small number of artifacts left out by tomb robbers.

If Snifru's coffin and mummy were still there, even if the tomb robbers were broken again, it would be a big discovery!

But there is no hurry, first open the main burial chamber of the mastaba: it is right in front of you, and if you are in a hurry, it is a matter of a few hammers.

If you really want to see the inside of the pyramid, when the main burial chamber of the burial chamber is opened, you can see enough to temporarily open the entrance with plastic sheeting, and then clean it up in a few days.

The premise of all this is that the brothers of the rescue team must first find a way to get out the big rock that is stuck inside, and then clean up the sand that has accumulated in it for an unknown distance.

Sánchez and old Zamorano agreed that the bulldozer would be used: a steel wire was tied to the stone, one end hung on the bulldozer, and then they used their hand tools to chisel off the two corners of the limestone boulder stuck in the mouth of the passage.

Still you can't use a pickaxe, because the pyramid superstructure is gone, the entire load-bearing structure is not stable, and large vibrations can lead to irreversible consequences: what is going on inside the passage will not be known until the stones are removed.

The rest of the pyramid area was to be cleaned up to deal with the entrance to the passage, and the tomb of Ihadou also sped up the record, cleaning, and protection of the front room, and then got the sacrificial table and the broken things on it, and quickly demolished the partition wall.

The things and tables on the sacrificial table had to be tightly packed and sent to the ground, plus the treatment of the walls, which took time: also in Africa, but not in Zimbabwe's own mines, it is archaeology after all.

After a bit of busyness, the front room of Ihadoo's tomb was finally completed that night. Until the next morning, no mummy came out of the ground to trouble Zhang Nan's gang.

The boulders on this side of the pyramid were also dragged away, and the miners dug up a section of sand four or five meters deep, revealing a deep passage: going deep into the pyramid at an inclination of about 25 degrees, and after entering about 25 meters, the passage was divided into two: one on the side and one up, blocked by rocks.

The pyramid remains as high as a dozen meters, and the passage up is obviously a dead-end road, and even if there was a burial chamber above, it would have long since disappeared.

According to the volume of the pyramid, it is estimated that the downward passage will be very long!

This pyramid, which originally only existed in legends, has a pedestal length of almost 220 meters on one side, which is about the same as the Red Pyramid and about 10 meters shorter than the Pyramid of Khufu.

According to the angle, the pyramid would have been more than 110 meters tall if it had been completed and had not been destroyed!

Sanchez went in and took a look after the passage was opened: the passage did not collapse, and after 30 meters, there was a 90-degree turn, turning horizontally forward.

The walls of the passage were not covered with marl, and were carved directly into the limestone bedrock: if this was the final resting place of Snifru's "rebirth", then his coffin and mummy should be somewhere at the end of the passage.

Sanchez didn't go any further, but returned to the ground and told the security contractor who was guarding the outside about the situation, waiting for the boss to investigate tomorrow.

......

Early in the morning of the 19th, Zhang Nan returned to the construction site, which was about to open the main burial chamber of Ihadhu's tomb.

After listening to the report on the situation of the pyramid passage, he was not in a hurry, and said: "Open the main tomb first, and the surprises will always come one by one." ”

The miners chiseled through the walls, and William took the mud bricks out.

Continue to use the poison detector, it is very good, there is no danger after opening it.

Zhang Nan was wearing a set of chemical protection suits sent a few days ago and waiting on the side, so he went to the open opening to look at it for a while, and then left a sentence, and then returned to the ground satisfied.

Of course, it was not stolen, but there were no frescoes, and the coffin was not a "humanoid coffin", but a rectangle, and there were probably no humanoid coffins in the Old Kingdom.

The burial chamber is surrounded by clay pots, and there are several wooden sticks with pointed ends and strips of leather or cloth, which are supposed to be the original bows.

There are also several painted boxes next to the coffin, and one of them has collapsed, revealing half a white bottle: it should be a stone bottle made of alabaster, and I will stay away from this Zhang Nan!

The stuff that puts the internal organs of the dead will only be used as treasure by poor egg tomb robbers!

A flashlight shone in, and there was a reflection on the ground on the side of the coffin near the entrance to the tomb, where there were two axes with semicircular faces, and battle axes with wooden handles attached, and two thick stone axes, probably made of flint, were poured on the sides.

"Don't rush to take pictures yet, the copper axe and bow are good, I want the same for each. ”

After saying that, he turned around and motioned to the guy who was waiting on the stone slab to let the man on the ground pull him up.