Without further ado, let's look at the excavation points first. Not far away, just a few dozen meters ahead, the scene is not small.

After a shallow sand beam, a huge excavation scene appeared in front of him, and Zhang Nan actually saw a large bulldozer on the side!

"This is archaeology?

Tomb robberies aren't as exaggerated as yours!"

complained in his heart, but this bulldozer did not work, otherwise it would make Zhang Nan even more difficult to understand.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it's hard to understand, what Zhang Nan is worried about will be pitted by this William - if the bulldozer participates in the direct brutal cleanup, he will probably stuff Mr. Professor into a pile of sand, or bricks and leave.

Luckily, it seems that the big guy was only involved in clearing the dunes in the early days, and it seems like a no-brainer.

A large group of Egyptians were doing manual work in front of the tomb, digging by hand, and then loading the excavated sand and gravel into wheelbarrows and light trucks and transporting it to the side and dumping it, just in time to build a shallow sand beam.

It's a bit weird, automatically ignoring the nearby guards and guiding archaeological team members, modern equipment, and you will have the illusion of going back to the site where the pyramids were built thousands of years ago.

Also, this will still use Egyptian labor, and when there is really a major discovery, will it kill people and kill people?

Killing people is just a boring idea, Zhang Nan is not so boring and brainless; not to mention that this is a military control area, what about digging up the "second Tutankhamun tomb", he is here to hunt for curiosity, not to make a fortune.

Even if they are old, can their tombs be as exciting as Nazi treasures?

Without waiting for Professor William to make an introduction, Zhang Nan asked, "Don't you worry that these Egyptians who are working will poke out all your discoveries now?"

"They were all illiterate people recruited from the slums, and they all lived in the fenced barracks over there, and they couldn't leave until at least three months.

Besides, the current Egyptians are no longer ancient Egyptians, and they will sell their souls for money, at least there will be no problems before the main tomb of the pharaoh is dug up..."

Mr. Professor is really not too worried, besides, the illiteracy rate in Egypt is more than 3 percent, and the proportion of adult men will be more than 2 percent, and the proportion of poor people is rising. Cairo, more than 40 kilometres away, is a big city, but there are plenty of slums there to recruit cheap, uneducated labor.

In addition, the actual genetic composition of today's Egyptians is basically the descendants of ancient Arab immigrants, and the culture and blood have little to do with the ancient Egyptians.

Ancient Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Cambis II in 525 BC, and at that time the ancient Egyptians began to change their taste, and in 333 BC they were enslaved by the Macedonians, after which the Egyptians were in the Greek and Roman spheres of influence for a long time.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire in 395 and the continued Byzantine rule of the Egyptians, the ethnic structure of the ancient Egyptians changed during this millennium.

Beginning in 640, Egypt was occupied by the Arabs, and then Arabization began. By the 12th century, Arabic was already widely used in Egypt and converted to **** religion.

They probably don't have the consciousness of being dug up at all.

William Brin was clever enough to halt the excavation of the unstolen flat-roofed tomb: it was common at Egyptian archaeological sites, and a small number of temporarily hired Egyptian laborers had seen it, usually sand, stone, and fragments of frescoes, and the discovery of a mummy coffin with a not-so-ornate appearance was a major discovery.

The poor Egyptians simply didn't take it seriously, and that's how the archaeological site in front of them felt.

As long as they don't find any treasure, these people who come for money won't care, they just get used to it, and even if they go back and tell others, they will only mention it to help dig up some ruins.

Charlize Theron, who was standing beside Zhang Nan, looked at the hundreds of Egyptians working in shabby robes and tattered T-shirts in front of him, and asked, "Are these people really reliable?"

Zhang Nan shook his head, "It's unreliable, the locals are unscrupulous to make money." Mr. William is very thoughtful, and stops work when he finds it, but Egypt here will become a wolf with only money in his eyes!

But the Arabs, the French and British have been here for too long, they should know how to be honest at gunpoint, at most they will go to the informant, and they will not be able to eat you. ”

In my last life, I knew that the locals in Egypt would do whatever it took to make money, and all tourists in Egypt around the world were unanimously evaluated!

Don't talk about stealing customers, it's all good at cheating!

If you want to ride a camel in front of the pyramid, even if you have negotiated the price with the owner of the camel in advance, and when you want to come down after riding a lap, you find that the camel is too high to come.

At this time, if you ask the camel owner to move you a footstool to get off the camel, he will collect another money from you!

The locals in Egypt are often in a group, and when you buy something, you negotiate the price with one of them, wait for you to pay, look down and pack your wallet, and then look up to get the goods, only to find that the locals in front of you look the same - you don't recognize the person who took your money, and those people all deny that they took the money!

Do you want to go to the police?

Attention, the police in Egypt are unreliable!

The Egyptian police themselves are only interested in money, and even if you ask them for directions, they have to charge a fee, who can guarantee that the police are not in a gang with those locals who sell goods, and everyone cheats money and sits on the ground to share the spoils?

Don't mistake the Egyptians for the ancient Egyptians, they are not the same at all!

William's team is only five or six people, and this will be coaching. In other words, supervising the Egyptian husband to clean up the yellow sand and gravel, Zhang Nan and his group walked to the nearby burial area that had been cleaned up.

There is basically not much left of the ground, it is all stone and weathered lime residue, which is obviously not only due to time, but also to a greater extent related to the seriousness of people.

Man-made destruction, not only tomb robbery, but also "demolition" level destruction will make the building components here almost invisible.

The area of this aristocratic burial tomb is still very large, the length and width are more than 100 meters, and the tomb that has not been stolen and dug is in the northwest corner.

Because of the curious baby Charlie Theron, William Brin said as he walked: "The ancient Egyptians believed in the afterlife, and in the early days of the Old Kingdom, the afterlife was the exclusive treatment of the pharaohs, and the only chance for ordinary people to gain eternal life was to be loyal to the royal family.

Therefore, at that time, it was the greatest gift of the pharaoh to build his own cemetery near the royal tomb, even if it was just to erect a tombstone nearby.

The ancient Greek historian Herodotus said that the ancient Egyptians were extremely religious and surpassed any other people in the world.

As long as there is such a contiguous mastaba tomb in early ancient Egypt, there must be a pyramid next to it..."

As he spoke, William paused, "Mr. Allen, this is it. ”

The professor looked at a piece of ground five or six meters ago, and Zhang Nan saw a row of mud bricks, which was slightly different from the ordinary ground around him.

stepped forward, Zhang Nan saw that there were mud bricks passing, and knocked off the block, and the thick wooden planks mixed with sand below were basically dry and cracked when they were dry.

It's good that this "mastaba" has not been moved.

"Mastaba?"

Charlize Theron was puzzled.

"It's a flat-topped tomb. ”