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"Huh? Professor, you're also here to see the exhibition? Chi Xun was surprised to see the appearance of the dusty people.

"Yes, I just came back from Xi'an this morning, and the car is still parked outside, where is the monument? I'll see. The old man was in a hurry, a man in his sixties, and looked around the office, thinking that the stele had been moved.

"Here," Chi Xun handed his phone to the person, "Professor, can you see what kind of text this is?" ”

"Hmm......" Professor Shi squinted and looked at it for a long time, "It's not deciphered, do you think it's an ancient script?" ”

"Well, based on the salvage location, we think it may be a text from the Tang Yu era."

"Xia Yushu?" Professor Shi tilted his head to look at him.

Xia Yu book, the legend is the ancestor of the Xia Dynasty royal family who has made meritorious contributions to the water - Dayu made the book or the handwriting, that is, the Zhong Ding book or the plaque seal, a total of only 12 words, the stone wall seal, the first to see in the "Fa Tie Shen Pin" said: "Xia Yu book stone wall seal, in PJ County Changjiang Mountain. No recognizable interpretation has been handed down.

Chi Xun rubbed the tip of his nose, "I really don't have much research on ancient Yi scripts and oracle bone inscriptions. ”

Xia Yushu is even more difficult to decipher than Cangjie Shu due to its mixed use of ancient Yi and oracle bone inscriptions. "Siku Quanshu - King James Chunhua Pavilion Post Commentary" is interpreted as: "Order Nie Zi, Xingji Qichun, and its Shang Jiehua." Nowadays, it is also translated as: "Will, Holy Form, Ascension, Devotion, Reward for Life and Death", which means: the transmission of information, the appearance of divine forms, the sublimation of following (the trajectory of practice), the offering of sacrifices, and the return in the process of birth and death.

"Well," Professor Shi explained after reading the inscription a few more times, "the decipherment of ancient characters mainly relies on comparative analysis of glyphs, grammar, phonetics, history, etc., and if there is a relationship between inheritance, it is okay." It's hard to just have a simple symbol resemblance. The difficulty of deciphering hieroglyphs lies in the fact that pictographs mainly lie in the existence of pretenses, because many concepts are difficult to express in pictograms. For example, the word 'I' uses the method of pretending, and 'I' was originally a weapon, because the pronunciation is the same as the pronunciation of the word that expresses oneself, so this word is used to pretend to borrow 'me'. But if a completely unfamiliar hieroglyph and you see only one weapon, it's hard to relate to the concept of 'self'. It seems that there is no good way to do this kind of variant character materials such as the Monument and Xia Yushu, and there is too little information. ”

"Well," Tang Duge nodded, "The Langalange of Easter Island also has no accepted explanation because there is too little information.

The Italian Etruscan language has little information, lacks inheritance, and knows nothing about pronunciation and grammar. ”

"It's not those ancient characters," Professor Shi finally concluded, "but this last sentence ......" he pointed to the leftmost column of the inscription, "it's familiar." ”

He touched his chin and thought for a while, then slapped his thigh: "Oops! ”

"What are you thinking?"

Professor Shi didn't have time to answer, he ran out upside down, and in less than ten minutes, he ran back upside down, clutching a thick notebook in his hand.

Shen Xingfan watched from the side, and he was a little worried about this old man, he was so old, could he withstand this toss.

The old man stood still and began to flip through the book, Chi Xun stood next to him, and when he saw the newspapers and photos cut and pasted on it most of the time, he guessed that this should be Professor Shi's private notes.

Hey, this notebook, Tang Duge also saw it, and sighed silently in his heart, half of the Chinese historiography circle.

"Yo, I found it." Professor Shi checked the phone and the notebook back and forth twice, and pointed to Chi Xun, "Take a look." ”

There was a black-and-white photograph of a man holding a bone in his hand, and it was that bone that was pictured. A white and clean one, with several figures engraved on it, is the words on the inscription seen today.

The words on the bones are not strange, but what is even more terrifying is that there is a big pit under the man's hand, and the pit is densely packed with bones.

"...... this?" Rao is Chi Xun is well-informed, and when he suddenly saw such a photo, he also felt strange and weird.

"The old photo from more than forty years ago should be a tomb dug up by SX, and the contents of the tomb are ......," the old man was reluctant to say, and only summed up with a sigh, "It's a little weird." ”

Tang Duge glanced at the photo and explained very professionally: "Humerus." Then he asked curiously, "Haven't you heard about this tomb?" ”

"Hey, I haven't studied anything, and it's still sealed in my hand."

Chi Xun and Tang Duge glanced at each other silently, and it could be seen that it was really a little strange.

"And what does the writing on this bone mean?"

Professor Shi touched the photo: "You know, the decipherment of words generally requires a text material similar to the Rosetta Stone that can be compared. This is how the Tangut decipherment began. The Khitan decipherment also relied on a bilingual source. If there is no comparison, look for similar or closely related ones, such as oracle bone decipherment. If you can't find anything close to it, it will become very difficult, for example, the Mayan script has been deciphered for hundreds of years and is now just beginning. It was difficult at first, like working on a big puzzle, and a lot of the time it was a guesswork. The deciphering process is similar to deciphering codes, relying on comparison, analysis, recognizing some very basic words, and then summarizing the rules. The basic linguistic principle is that no matter what language is, it is composed of some basic elements, and the basic elements must be analyzed first. The second step is to look at how a word or word is made up and what are the basic rules. The third is to analyze grammar, how sentences are composed, and what grammatical rules there are. And the text on the excavated tomb, not to mention the strange form, there is no text material that can be compared and analyzed, we can only speculate according to what is already in the tomb, do you remember the Xia Yu book that I said before? ”

Several people nodded.

"The translation of Dr. Li Hui of Yale University is: Purpose, Holy Form, Ascension, Consecration, Appreciation of Life and Death. The message is conveyed, the divine form appears, the practice is sublimated along the trajectory, the sacrifice is offered, and the rewards are given in the process of birth and death. In short, it means sacrifice. Although there is still controversy about the text engraved on the bones in that tomb, there are roughly two directions, one is sacrifice and the other is curse. ”

Shen Xingfan suddenly shuddered: "That pit won't be full of bones engraved with words." ”

Professor Shi did not answer. There are no unsealed materials, according to the regulations, he can't reveal too much, and this time he can take out this photo, also because it is related to the case, and it is related to the newly discovered ancient civilization relics.

Shen Xingfan thought about what kind of curse needed to spend all the bones of this pit, let alone these bones...... How did it come about? The more I thought about it, the more I felt cold all over my body.