This shows that ships play an important role in their lives and culture.

It is also conceivable that people here often pass through the upper and lower reaches of the holy river by boat, and the exchange is very frequent, and the commerce should be developed. If commerce is developed, then there must be a very developed handicraft industry.

Porcelain has not yet appeared.

Finally there are some clutter, everything is available, including. Books, wood carvings, stone carvings, fruits. Pretty feathers, nice stones, currency, some plant seeds, everything.

The ancient Xiaoyao will be these sundries. Tidy up and put it aside and pick up a book.

If you want to learn about an unfamiliar civilization, books are the best channel.

Books must be very precious here.

After all, in this era of ignorant and backward slave city-states and frequent wars, having knowledge is power, being able to be superior to others, and having a respected status and being respected.

It can be seen that the previous owner cherished this book very much. Very gorgeously decorated.

The cover is made of some kind of precious wood, and Gu Xiaoyao can smell the faint fragrance emanating from the cover, which smells very good and makes people refreshed.

The cover is bordered with gold wire, and on the edge of the cover are set some emeralds, rubies and sapphires.

The book is very thick, Gu Xiaoyao compared it with his fingers, and it was about 5 centimeters thick.

Gu Xiaoyao gently turned the pages of the book.

The pages are made from the fur of some kind of small animal, trimmed and cut.

Gu Xiaoyao touched the page with his hand, and the page was very thin. Kneaded, after drying, it has a certain hardness, smoothness, and very good ink absorption. The words are written on it and the handwriting is very legible. No loose ink at all.

It is conceivable that in the era before the advent of all kinds of paper, this kind of page must be worth a lot of money, and the value of a piece of paper may be equivalent to the cost of an ordinary family for a month.

These books may be the lords of a certain city-state. or the great nobles, the great merchants as the best gifts to offer to the ancient Xiaoyao.

Gu Xiaoyao carefully read the contents of the page.

The words in the book make Gu Xiaoyao feel a sense of déjà vu.

For example, two horizontal and two vertical. Text like a ladder.

A text like a diagonal cross, with a strong stroke that is extremely short above and extremely long below.

A hook-shaped text like a fishhook

Isn't it very familiar.

Almost immediately, Gu Xiaoyao associates the text of the book with the modern 26 letters of the English alphabet, which is too similar.

Two horizontal and two vertical, like a ladder-like text, like the letter 'H' with an English capital letter.

A text that resembles a diagonal cross, with a strong stroke that is extremely short at the top and extremely long at the bottom, is not like the letter 'T' with a capital letter.

There is also a hook-shaped text like a fishhook, which is the English lowercase letter 'L.'

Gu Xiaoyao took the laptop. Turn on your computer.

Although the computer can't connect to the Internet here, Gu Xiaoyao is a special equipment of the dragon group on the computer, and there are all kinds of modern information in it!

In this way, for example, in the seabed, in the mountains, in remote ravines, when the laptop cannot be connected to the Internet, you can still query the information you need.

Soon. Gu Xiaoyao found useful information on his laptop.

About the origin of the modern 26 English letters.

The modern 26 English alphabets originally originated from the Phoenician alphabet, a script created by the Phoenicians.

Many people may be very unfamiliar with the Phoenicians.

Even before the ancient Xiaoyao, he was very unfamiliar with the Phoenicians.

I have seen some information about the Phoenicians. Gu Xiaoyao has to admire this ancient nation, it is too awesome and forceful.

The Phoenicians lived on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

At the beginning of the 20th century BC, that is, more than 4,000 years ago, in the eastern coast of the ancient Mediterranean world, it was located in the middle of the Livante coast, from Aradus in the north to Dore in the south. Some small slave city-states were created, and they were the Phoenicians.

At the beginning of the 12th century BC, Phoenicia reached its heyday.

The most famous deeds of the Phoenicians are the development of maritime trade and colonization.

The Phoenicians were the most famous navigators and merchants of the ancient world, who sailed their long, narrow ships to every corner of the Mediterranean. Phoenician merchants can be found in every port on the Mediterranean coast.

They sold specialties from all over the world: grain, wine, textiles, carpets, and precious stones from the Far East and India, lead, gold, and iron from the Black Sea coast, copper, cypress, and corn from Cyprus, and all sorts of Greek handicrafts, and even ivory and slaves brought back from the interior of Africa, and tin from Britain.

Since the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, the Phoenician merchant ships had spread throughout the Mediterranean, and were constrained by Egypt at its height, until around 1200 BC, Egypt's power declined, and Phoenicia became the hegemon of the Mediterranean.

The Phoenicians also did a great job of colonizing the western coast of North Africa, southern Spain, most of Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia and the Balearic Islands, as well as many trading posts, such as Marseille and Tunisia in present-day France.

What made the Phoenicians most famous was not their well-developed maritime trade and colonization enterprise, but the creation of the first alphabetic script in human history, a total of 22 letters, which is known as the beginning of the world's alphabet writing.

The Phoenician alphabet was derived from the ancient Greek alphabet in the West, which in turn developed into the Latin alphabet and the Slavic alphabet, and finally the Latin alphabet developed into the modern 26 English letters.

The Phoenician alphabet has 22 letters, without vowels, and when it developed into the Latin alphabet, there were 23 letters, and finally in order to distinguish the vowel "V" from the consonant "V", the lower part of the original V was changed to a circle and the vowel "U"; The two "Vs" were joined together to create a "W" for consonants, and later the "I" was slightly changed to create a consonant letter "J".

The 23 letters of the Latin alphabet plus the three letters 'U', 'W', and 'J' that were later derived are the 26 letters of the current English alphabet

Gu Xiaoyao looked up the Phoenician alphabet on the computer again, and compared the text on the book with the stone tablets and tablets of the Phoenician alphabet that had been discovered and deciphered, such as the inscription on the tombstone of King Ashram in the 11th century BC, the memorial tablet of King Maesa, the clay tablets of the Uga alphabet, the Moabic stone tablet, the Aramaic inscription, and so on.

After the control.

The truth is out.

The text in the books is the Phoenician alphabet.

Well, the people who live in this space in the Earth's mantle layer are the descendants of the Phoenicians more than 3,000 years ago.

Translate the first page of the book into the Phoenician alphabet that has been interpreted on the computer.

The ancient Xiaoyao can be more certain that the ancestors of the people here came from the surface, the Phoenicians.

In the book, they use a set of calendars similar to those of the modern calendar. (To be continued.) )