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It's a pity that the Sphinx's nose is wooden, but how exactly its nose fell out is also a mystery. It is widely www.biquge.info said that when Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he saw its majesty and majesty, as if to demonstrate to himself, and in a fit of rage, he bombarded its nose with a cannonball. However, long before Napoleon, it was already documented that it lacked a nose.

The only fact is that the Sphinx is not unique to Cairo, Egypt. Only this one in Cairo is the largest and the oldest.

A must-visit to Cairo is the Egyptian Museum, where their owners and their burial belongings lie quietly, no matter how much the majestic pyramids and the vast Valley of the Kings may have shaken your heart.

The Egyptian Museum was designed and planned by the famous French archaeologist Mariette, who is known as the "father of Egyptian museums" by the Egyptians, in 1858 and built from 1897 to 1901, in order to prevent the excavated Egyptian national treasures from flowing abroad, so the Egyptians respect him very much.

Located on the east bank of the Nile River in Cairo, next to Tahrir Square, the museum is a small pink two-story building, not to mention only two floors, but it is one of the most famous museums in the world, because it has a collection of more than 300,000 cultural relics from the Old Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom to the New Kingdom period of ancient Egypt.

There are more than 60,000 pieces on display in the exhibition hall alone, but can this make Yunluo from another ancient country amazed?

In front of the Egyptian Museum, there is a rectangular pool with "lotus" representing ancient Upper Egypt and "sedge" representing Lower Egypt.

(Egypt in the predynastic period.) Bounded by Memphis, there are two separate regimes located in the upper and lower reaches of the Nile. Among them, the upper southern region is Upper Egypt, and the lower northern region is Lower Egypt. At the four corners of the pool are two sphinxes and two stone statues of Ramses II.

Directly above the arched doors of the museum is the head of the ancient Egyptian goddess Hatol. He wears a sun wheel and horns. Hathor was the most beautiful of all the goddesses of ancient Egypt, taking the form of a bull, and the Greek text mentions her as the goddess of the sky.

Photography is not allowed in the Egyptian Museum, so you have to store your camera before entering, maybe you are afraid of copying, but this allows Yunluo to concentrate on experiencing every miracle that has been sealed for thousands of years.

The first thing you see when you enter the museum is the Rosetta Stone, a basalt stele inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian alphabets, and Greek scripts. It is the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian and more than 4,000 years of history. It's a pity that this piece is actually a fake, and the real thing is in the British Museum in the United Kingdom.

The Egyptian Museum is dominated by artifacts from the Pharaonic period. Therefore, it is customary to call it the "Pharaoh Museum". The first floor, in the order of the development of Egypt's ancient history, is exhibited with precious artifacts from the Old Kingdom period (2686 BC to 2181 BC) to the Roman rule in the 5th and 6th centuries AD.

There may be too many cultural relics in Egypt, and many of them are placed there without shelter, and Yunluo couldn't help but touch them gently. It's really amazing to actually touch the time and space of thousands of years ago.

The second floor of the museum is a special exhibition room, almost more than half of which are Tutankhamun's funerary goods, weighing more than 110 kilograms of "golden mask", 450 pounds of "golden coffin" and exquisitely carved "golden chair", "golden bed", "golden staff" and so on, it is simply a piece of gold luxury, but this is very different from the dazzling gold of the treasures of the Forbidden City, here is older, but more vivid, in front of the "golden mask" made with Tutankhamun's face.

Yunluo can clearly see the handsome and childish face of the 18-year-old pharaoh 3,000 years ago, the cobra on the forehead and the vulture on the back of the head symbolize the unlimited power and mysterious power of the rulers of Upper and Lower Egypt. The clouds fell on thought. If someone takes it with their head, will they possess the soul?

The young Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, Tutamamun, died at the age of 18 and was buried in a three-tiered golden coffin, the innermost and outermost layers in the Egyptian Museum. The middle floor was left in the Valley of the Kings. The gold coffin is painted and carved exquisitely.

Legend has it that during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, a spell tablet was unearthed: "O gods, spread the wings of death to those who hinder the pharaoh's eternal sleep." Two days after the excavation was completed, the funder Sir Carnarvon died in a Cairo hospital, beginning the legend of "Tutankhamun's curse".

There are also two things in the museum that will make Yunluo unforgettable: the jar containing the pharaoh's internal organs and the eyes of the statue of 'Prince Rahotep and his wife Neuflert'.

In ancient Egypt. One of the essential procedures of mummification is to remove the pharaoh's internal organs and eyes, which would cause the body to decompose. They were soaked in different jars and finally placed in the mausoleum with the mummy for the pharaoh to use when he was resurrected. The carvings of these jars are no less exquisite than the golden crowns and golden chairs, and even more artistic and vivid.

The statue of 'Prince Rahotep and his wife Noflet' is a seated statue carved from two stone blocks, both of which are painted, with the prince having dark skin and a fair and dignified wife. The most incredible thing is that the eyes of the two people are as bright as real people, so that when the statue was first excavated, it was thought that it was a real resurrection.

It turns out that the eyes of the two people are made of crystal, and they are built into the avatar, which is a masterpiece thousands of years ago, what is it if it is not a mystery?

Yunluo met a kitten in the backyard, and let Yunluo rub without any scruples, and his thin and bright appearance was the prototype of the Egyptian patron cat. Egyptian cats have attitudes! Probably because he was as lonely as the dust in the museum, he jumped on Yunluo's lap to play and refused to come down.

Many people don't know that Egypt, where 95% of the country's land area is desert, has a long and beautiful sea area, and is one of the top ten diving resorts in the world. Yes, this is the Red Sea! It is located between northeastern Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, and its northwest side is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Suez Canal.

It is connected to the Gulf of Aden by the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the south. The Red Sea is an inland sea in the northwest of the Indian Ocean, which is actually the northern extension of the Great Rift Valley, and is also an important oil transportation route, so there have been many wars in the past. The Red Sea is a young sea.

About 20 million years ago, the Arabian Peninsula was separated from Africa and the Red Sea was born. It can still be seen that the shape of the two sides of the strait is very similar, which is the trace left by the tearing apart of the mainland.

The Red Sea is a mysterious sea. In the book of Exodus in the Bible, there is the story of Moses leading the Israelites across the Red Sea; It is also said that the earliest Bibles were discovered in the Red Sea. The Red Sea is an alluring sea. Just listening to the name, you can't help but yearn for her.

Whether it's because of coral, seaweed, or the legend of Adam's woman, Lilith, the Red Sea is indeed a beautiful lady who hides her face like a light veil.

Egypt has a number of resorts along the Red Sea, most notably Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula and of course the most expensive, as well as the horrific serial bombings of July 2005. The most well-known on the African continent is Hurghada.

It takes about 6 hours to drive from Cairo to Hurghada, and soon after driving out of the crowded Cairo, you can see the beautiful Red Sea, walking along the coastline, the straight road is almost car-free, and the feeling of dense shuttles is completely different from the dense shuttle on the Huaguo Highway.

The endless highway divides the hot and dry Egypt in two, half of which is the enchanting Red Sea, where swimming, fishing, and, if you're lucky, dolphins jumping; Half of it is a desert and a rocky mountain of perseverance and enthusiasm, and except for the windmills that generate electricity, there is no grass for hundreds of kilometers.

But it is such a wonderful combination that makes the originally unforgiving sea and unforgiving desert become amorous in a moment.

History is always strikingly similar.

There are two women who have been recorded in the history of China, and there are also two women who have been above men in Egypt more recently, one is the well-known Cleopatra of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo, but theoretically she is a Greek, not a real Egyptian queen, so the earlier and purer one is Queen Haqisu of the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.

I don't know if it's out of the jealousy of future generations, there is not much information about Queen Hachisu that can be found, but this does not hide the fact that she is the first female king in the history of the world. The women who will go down in history are always full of criticism, and Khakisu was the daughter of Thutmose I, whose husband Thutmose II was his half-brother.

After the death of Thutmose II, she took charge of the court affairs for the young Thutmose III as the empress dowager, and later imprisoned Thutmose III, who was supposed to succeed to the throne, in the Temple of Amun and established herself as king. So much so that Thutmose III hated her and avenged the destruction of all her statues and names after her mysterious death took over power.

But it is said that during her reign of more than 20 years, the economy developed and the territory expanded. Her clever use of diplomacy and strong maritime trade enabled her subjects to live and work in peace and contentment, and her society was prosperous and stable, unlike the pharaohs who had to use their outstanding military exploits to make history remember their names.

Closer to home, what will the temple of the fierce and controversial queen look like?

Today, there are mountains to build dams, and in ancient times, there were mountains to build temples. The palace of Queen Haqisu (Fhatshepsut) was built on the opening of the mountain, and it is separated from the Valley of the Kings by a hill, and the majestic mountain has been carved into a natural huge screen.

The temple is said to have been built for Queen Hachisu's lover for her. The temple was large in size and had three tiers of upper and lower tiers, each with a colossal statue of the female pharaoh erected on the pillars (most of which had been destroyed by Thutmose III). (To be continued)

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