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Everything was restored to the original appearance of the Sahara, and the darkness that covered the sky did not leave a trace.

The two who took off their armor were not busy leaving, and simply lay on the blankets and sunbathed.

"Hey, my baby!" Li Jiani played with the little rags she picked up.

The lotus glanced at it boringly, the diameter of the round cyan stone slab was about 20cm, and it was painted with a mess of various patterns, no words, just messy graphic patterns.

"Husband, come and see!" Li Jiani handed it to him for a solution, "Look what the hell is this?" ”

"Hehe, don't get your hopes up too much." The lotus took it and smiled, then carefully looked at the pattern on it.

Messy, that's the first feeling the slate picture gives him. Large and small circles, squares and triangles are densely chiseled on it.

There is no dye, just the simplest chiseling.

At the bottom of the slab are images of five Homo erectus, which are rudimentary but clearly show the human state.

Two adults and three relatively short children, but...

"Come on." The lotus flower never let her down, and he pointed to the human pattern on the stone slab and said, "Who do you think this is?" ”

"Parents and children!" Li Jiani immediately replied. The two adult images have male and female features, making it easy to distinguish between them.

"No, it's not." Lotus shook her head and said with a smile: "If you look carefully, why don't the adults have weapons in their hands, but the three children are holding long hairs?" ”

"Let them practice hunting!" Li Jiani has a heartfelt voice.

"If it's a practice hunting, then there will definitely be a pattern of an animal." Lotus corrected her mistake, pondered for a moment, and continued: "Actually, this is not a child. ”

"Huh? Not a child? Li Jiani scratched her face, "What's that?" Little monkeys? ”

"What nonsense!" Lotus gave her a funny look, then looked at the map, and said, "Where we are now... Approached Niger. So do you know the Terry people? ”

"Terry? Who is that? Li Jiani was confused. This can't be blamed for her lack of knowledge, if you distinguish by age and region, then the earth has appeared and disappeared countless tribal humans.

"The Terry were small in stature, much lower than humans today, and could easily climb tall branches and rattans, and they built their houses between the cliffs." Lotus paused and continued: "They live in the Bongjagara cliffs in the Bangjara Mountains in central Mali. It is on a cliff 500 meters above sea level on the side of the Niger River. ”

"Eun!" Li Jiani listened attentively, with amazement and adoration for her husband in her eyes.

"They're real-life dwarfs." Lotus spoke slowly, as if recalling the contents, "There are still houses left over there, and in the cracks of the cliffs, there are circular nests made of mud and rock. ”

"But it's a long way from us!" Li Jiani asked suspiciously, wondering when to take a look!

"Yes, it's far away." Lotus nodded, and then pointed to the other two adult patterns, "The key is that these two humans are not Terry, but... Dogons! ”

"What are the Dogons?" Li Jiani scratched her ears and cheeks, she had never heard of these stories.

"The Dogon people now live in the bends of the Niger River, where they live from farming and nomadism. They have some amazing legends. Lotus pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Don't mention those legends first, let's talk about this pattern." ”

"Sometime between the 10th and 13th centuries, the Dogon people began to migrate from their places of origin to escape being captured as slaves."

"When they reached the Bongjagara cliffs, they met the indigenous Terry, and what happened is unknown, but the Terry have disappeared."

"That cliff naturally became the habitat of the Dogons, who later settled here to escape the war and resist the assimilation of the Isiran religion."

"They built their houses in the crevices of the rock, following the example of the Terry, except that the stone houses became square huts."

"As the population of the Dogon population grew, the terrain in the middle of the cliff could no longer accommodate any larger population. So more than a hundred years ago, the Dogon people began to migrate. Most of them moved to the plains below, and a small part went down the Niger River. ”

"This tablet is the product of the Dogon people." The lotus again pointed to the human motif, "The chiseled figure of the Dogon people has a special personality, and this stone slab should have been produced around the 10th to 13th centuries. Its dynamic and sexual characteristics are very similar to the oldest known carved figures of the Dogons. ”

"Wow..."Li Jiani didn't know how to express her feelings at all. The story is amazing, but this man is just as amazing! This kind of knowledge that is so remote that it can be known! Totally handsome!

Lotus looked indifferently enjoying the admiration, there was no way, he had seen it, how could he forget?

"Husband!" Li Jiani felt that her body was weak, and she resisted the desire to pounce and asked, "Then what does this stone slab mean?" ”

"This slate.." The lotus stared at the patterns in her hand and muttered for a moment, then said, "If you want to understand the meaning of these patterns, then you have to talk about the particularity of the Dogon people. ”

"Say! Say! Li Jiani's face was a little crimson, she was already excited.

"The Dogon people did not have their own written language, and all knowledge could only be passed down from generation to generation through dictation." Lotus touched the slate in her hand and sighed, "However, it is such a people who have amazing knowledge of astronomy. ”

"Sirius companion you know, right?"

"Eun! Know! Li Jiani nodded repeatedly, "The white dwarf next to Sirius!" They are binary star systems made up of two stars. ”

"Yes, white dwarf." Lotus smiled, "Humans speculated on its existence in 1844, knew it was a white dwarf in 1928, and only saw it for the first time in 1970. ”

"But in the system of legend of the Dogon people, I don't know how many years ago the existence of this white dwarf star. They were also able to accurately plot the elliptical trajectory of Sirius around Sirius, as well as the orbital period and rotation characteristics."

"Of course." Lotus shrugged, "This so-called preparation has not been confirmed. Sirius, however, was confirmed. (To be continued.) )