One of the golden galleons, particularly delicate and exquisite, is simply a perfect work of art.

The golden sail is about 30 centimeters long, composed of the hull, the sails, the deck, and the superstructure on the deck, which are made very delicately and realistically, especially the sails, which are made of paper-thin gold, very delicate, as if the sailboat is sailing on a river, and when the wind blows the sails, the curvature and folds of the sails are reflected.

The craftsman also welded the main piece with gold wire as thin as a hair to make up the building on the deck, and various details of the building, such as doors, windows, and eaves, are displayed in a very delicate manner.

It can be said that the people living in this space have shown Chen Rui their very exquisite skills in metal smelting, casting, wire drawing and other production processes through this golden sailing ship.

Next, some pottery was counted, and the reason why the pottery was counted in a separate category was because there were so many pottery.

This can show that pottery plays an important part of their lives.

Most of these pottery objects are of different shapes, and most of them are household utensils, such as bowls for eating, pots for water, and clay pots for storage, and there are very few ornamental vessels.

Except for a small part of these pottery pieces that are very crudely made, this part may have been worshipped by some poor peasants, after all, a few pieces of pottery were a large part of their family's property. Most of them are very fine, the production is very exquisite, and various geometric patterns, animal patterns and character patterns are engraved on the utensils, which are very beautiful and artistic.

Among them, Chen Rui can often see the patterns of various ships in these ornaments.

This can be illustrated by the ships of their lives. and a very important place in the culture.

It is also conceivable. People here often travel by boat to the upper and lower reaches of the holy river. Exchanges are very frequent, and business should also be developed. If commerce is developed, then there must be a very developed handicraft industry.

Porcelain has not yet appeared.

Finally, there are some miscellaneous items, everything, including, books, wood carvings, stone carvings. Fruits, nice feathers, nice stones, currency, some plant seeds, everything.

Chen Rui put these miscellaneous items aside, and picked 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, there are many slave city-states in this ignorant and backward country. In times of frequent wars, having knowledge is power. Able to be superior, respected and respected.

It can be seen that the previous owner cherished this book very much, and the decoration was very gorgeous.

The cover is made of some kind of precious wood, and Chen Rui can still smell the faint fragrance emanating from the cover, which is very smelly and refreshing.

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, Chen Rui compared it with his fingers, and it was about 5 centimeters thick.

Chen Rui gently turned the pages of the book.

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

Chen Rui touched the page with his hand, the page is very thin, kneaded, has a certain hardness after drying, smooth, very good ink absorption, the words are written on it, the handwriting is very clear, and there is 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 lord of a certain city-state, or a great nobleman, or a big merchant as the best gift to Chen Rui.

Chen Rui carefully read the contents of the page.

The words in the book made Chen Rui feel a sense of déjà vu.

For example, two horizontal and two vertical, like a ladder-like text.

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.

Chen Rui almost immediately 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.'

Chen Rui took the laptop and turned it on.

Although the computer cannot be connected to the network here, Chen Rui stuffed more than terabytes of data on the computer's hard drive.

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, Chen Rui 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.

Including Chen Rui, who was also very unfamiliar with the Phoenicians before.

After reading some information about the Phoenicians, Chen Rui had to admire this ancient nation, which was 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, located in the central narrow strip of the Livante coast, from Aradus in the north to Dore in the south, there were some small slave city-states, 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, and they sailed through every corner of the Mediterranean in long, narrow ships, and Phoenician merchants can be found in every port along 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 in present-day France, Tunisia - (to be continued......