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.

Chen Rui checked the Phoenician alphabet on the computer again, and compared the text on the book with the steles and tablets of the Phoenician alphabet that had been discovered and interpreted, such as the text engraved on the tombstone of King Ashram in the 11th century BC, the memorial tablet of King Ma'abi Mesa, 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.

Chen Rui can be more certain that the ancestors of the people here came from the earth's surface, the Phoenicians.

In the book. They used a set of calendars similar to the modern calendar.

Everyone knows the modern calendar.

A year is equal to 365 days. Every four years, it is established to make up for the time difference between the number of days of the year and the actual orbital cycle of the earth caused by the artificial calendar.

12 months a year.

A month of February is 28 or 29 days. The other months are 31 days for the big month and 30 days for the minor month.

24 hours a day.

The calendar recorded in this book is 365 days a year, divided into 3 quarters and 12 months, 3 weeks per month, 10 days per week, and an additional 5 days at the end of the year as a festive time. Very precise.

We need to know that the 365 days of a year are calculated according to the cycle of the Earth around the Sun, the 30 days of a month are calculated according to the periodic changes of the Moon, and the 24 hours of a day are calculated according to the time of the Earth's rotation.

Well, how do the people who live here know and determine their calendars when they have never seen the moon, the sun, and the seasons change?

Therefore, Chen Rui is very sure that their ancestors came from the earth's surface.

This calendar is very similar to the ancient Egyptian calendar, except that ancient Egypt changed according to the water level of the Nile. The names for the three seasons, Akhet (flood), Proyet (growth) and Shomu (harvest), all follow the ancient Egyptian calendar.

Chen Rui can be sure. The people of this space come from the surface of the earth and are descendants of the Phoenicians.

It was at least 3,000 years after the Phoenician alphabet was created by the Phoenicians in the 12th century BC.

That is, the descendants of the Phoenicians have lived in this mantle space of the earth for more than 3,000 years.

Compared with modern civilization, the development of the Phoenician civilization, which originated from the surface of the earth for more than 3,000 years, has remained stagnant, and it is still full of slave city-states.

Also, the greatest driving force for the development of various civilizations on the earth is the integration and exchange of various cultures.

In this mantle space of the earth, the Phoenician civilization is a civilization, and it integrates and communicates with whom.

Moreover, there is no unified state, wars are frequent, and all the energy is busy fighting, not to mention the progress of civilization.

It's like modern Africa.

Human beings originated in Africa, and the explorers of China, the United States, Russia and other major countries are about to fly out of the solar system, but Africa is still like this bird, is there any difference from primitive societies!?

As for why the Phoenicians more than 3,000 years ago were able to reach this mantle space hundreds of thousands of meters and hundreds of thousands of meters above the surface.

Maybe we'll find out later.

Chen Rui now spends all his energy on translating the book on hand.

It took a week.

I looked up a lot of stuff on my laptop.

The main references are the records of the Kise-farmer, the Moabite steles, the Aramaic inscriptions, the broken porcelain tablets excavated in Samaria, the alphabetic tablets of the city of Ugarit, and the later ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek letters.

Finally deciphered a small part of the content.

The reason why only a small part of the content can be deciphered.

There are so few Phoenician texts that can be compared.

By deciphering part of the content.

Chen Rui also had a preliminary understanding of the land under his feet.

This block covers an area of about 200,000 square kilometers, which is a little larger than the provinces of Quang and Dong, and is known as Tyre.

Tyre was the largest city-state founded by the ancient Phoenicians, and it is believed that Tyre was Sur in present-day Lebanon.

The river next to it is called the 'Endro' river, which means 'holy' in the Phoenician language.

The 'Endro' River meanders for more than 300 kilometers, with a basin area of tens of thousands of square kilometers, and there are many tributaries of the Enzhuo River, among which the largest tributaries are the Mahler River, the Sobakt River, the Ava River, and the Ateba River.

Together with its tributaries, the Undra River supported the Phoenician people who lived in the land.

In the land of Tyre, there were many slave city-states, most of which were built along the Undra River.

Due to the convenient waterway transportation conditions and the tradition of the ancient Phoenicians to develop commerce, commerce here was very developed, and the development of commerce also led to the development of various handicrafts in the city.

Chen Rui stayed by the river.

Tyre is more than 200,000 square kilometers, with a network of waterways like a spider's web, convenient means of transportation and various ships, and frequent exchanges between various city-states, less than 1 week, (the Phoenician calendar, a week is 10 days. A god came from the whirlpool and now stopped by the river at the source of the holy river, and all the people of Tyre knew about it.

Soon, more people made a pilgrimage to the source by boat, or by overland walking, by horse-drawn carriages, and by bicycle carrying various offerings up the river.

They call themselves God's servants, or God's followers.

Spontaneously, with a pious heart, and without complaint, they gathered rocks, cut wood, and built a tall and ornate temple by the river.

Let God dwell. (To be continued......)