The priests will offer sacrifices to you, and the priests will spread their arms to you with the sacrifices of the earth, just as they offer all the little water left in the bowl to Imhotep. 】

—from a tombstone inscription from the time of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 BC).

Stones, Diseases, Medicine, Birds......

Edwin's face changed, and the deep wrinkles on his head became more and more like a ravine, "You mean, you mean...... Imhotep? ”

"Yes, George, that's what I thought." Fort paused before pronouncing the name: "Imhotep." ”

Imhotep, one of only two civilians in Egyptian civilization to be deified posthumously, the other being Amenhotep, the son of Hap.

In the style of the holy script, Imhotep's name is: ??????:?? *??

Meaning, peacemakers.

"You see, Imhotep's name has a bird, an owl, which is the hallmark of his name." "Imhotep was the god of medicine in ancient Egypt, and Imhotep was also a great architect, presiding over the construction of the Pyramid of Saqara - the first stone building in human history, and he was the inventor of stone architecture. ”

"Heri, you really reminded me, Imhotep......" Edwin muttered, his eyes a little straight as he looked at the holy text.

"Another point is that Imhotep pioneered the hollowing out of the internal organs of the deceased and making them into mummies. I don't know if that's justified, but without the internal organs, the flesh will rot, and in the end, there will only be some bones left. Imhotep's understanding of eternity and eternal life is inseparable from the stone. ”

Fortuna put some of his thoughts into words, and in his mind, some archaeological knowledge about Imhotep was constantly pouring in.

Imhotep was the prime minister of the pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty of Ancient Egypt in the 27th century BC.

According to legend, Djoser once dreamed that he was walking on a ladder that stretched into the sky, and when he woke up, he asked Imhotep to build a tomb that would lead to heaven. Until then, Egypt did not have the stepped pyramids that modern people are familiar with, and the pharaoh's tomb was nothing more than a huge rectangular mud-brick mound.

Imhotep designed and presided over the construction of the first true Egyptian pyramid, the Pyramid of Djosel – although this 62.5-metre-tall pyramid is rudimentary compared to later behemoths such as the Pyramid of Khufu, it is indeed the beginning of the pyramids, the beginning of stone construction.

This is a great expression of Imhotep's architecture, but later Egyptians revered him for his medicine.

He founded the first medical school in history, two thousand years before Hippocrates, the father of medicine in Greek civilization.

There is no direct archaeological evidence that Imhotep was a doctor, or how to see a doctor and save people, but in Egyptian civilization for thousands of years, he was gradually worshipped and deified, and more than 1,300 years after his death, a tombstone inscription from the time of Amenhotep III during the New Kingdom - this is the first written evidence unearthed by modern people to directly mention Imhotep, he is already a god. More than 2,200 years after his death, in the 30th Dynasty of Egypt, a large number of related papyri and statues testify to this man, and it is clear that he has the ability to medicine and heal.

The center of worship for Imhotep is in Memphis, very, very far away, but the world has never been able to find the place where Imhotep's grave is.

Imhotep...... And then what? Herry, you don't think this is a bowl of water from Imhotep's grave, do you? Or is it a bowl of water for worshipping Imhotep? ”

Edwin's excitement at the slightest suspicious clue he had just gotten was quickly replaced by more messiness and greater agitation.

Without waiting for Fortner to say anything, he said in a chaotic voice: "It's unlikely, Paul has investigated those sellers, they are just a few small characters, they don't have the ability to smuggle artifacts from Memphis, from the Pyramid of Djoser, they should have found a small tomb near this city." And, you see, these birds, not owls, these birds look like ...... I don't know how to say it, but they're not owls......"

"George, the owl is Imhotep, but these birds can be followers of Imhotep, or equally doctors."

"So how do you explain the problem of geography? And how to explain this sentence? ”

Fortuna saw that his old friend was almost uncontrollably excited, and he did not look at all like the old doctor of the abyss of knowledge he knew.

"Calm down, calm down!" Fortner cried, "George, listen to me slowly. ”

He wanted to finish discussing this matter, and he really had to persuade this old friend to take a good rest, take some sleeping pills and get some sleep, otherwise it would not work like this.

It's just that when he himself looked at the four pottery fragments again, he felt the impact of that "strange attraction" in his heart again......

"I didn't say it was Imhotep's funeral object, and I didn't look like an admirer of Imhotep, but a bit like his enemy, the rebel. Imhotep was the prime minister of the pharaoh and the high priest of the sun god. This is worthy of the first verse of the holy book. ”

Edwin was impatient when he heard this, and the bloodshot in his eyes was almost hideous, "The key is the second sentence!" Herry, the second sentence only affects the meaning before and after, stone and disease, so is Imhotep? If you want to express this person, why not just put an owl on it? ”

"My thoughts, the stone means the pyramid!" Fortner had to shout, "The first stone pyramid." ”

Edwin frowned and stopped, Fortner's fingers touching the stone character on the fragment, as if he could go back to that ancient time.

"Old friend, we modern people have never been able to figure out how those ancient Egyptians built the pyramids? How can so many huge stones be done with the level of technology and architecture at that time? Even the Pyramid of Djoser must have been built very hard, requiring a lot of manpower, a lot of materials, and a long time. You also know that if Djoser had not ruled Egypt for several decades, the first stone pyramid would not have been successfully built. Such a grand project can bring down a kingdom, and there are too many examples of this in the history of human civilization. Think about it, what kind of attitude would the Egyptian common people, and even the ruling class, have towards this project at that time? Some people are in favor of it, and some people are against it. ”

Edwin's face changed again, and he faintly woke up, "Rebel...... The catastrophe caused by stones......"

"In the eyes of some rebels, isn't this project just stone + disease? It does kill a lot of people. Imhotep is the god of medicine, but in the eyes of the rebels, he is the creator of the disease, and it is up to Imhotep and the other 'birds' to kill him and create a new world ruled by the god Amun. ”

"This is a little thought of mine," said Fortner, "there may have been an uprising that failed and the rebels were executed and expelled. ”

"Really...... You've got a point...... old friend," Edwin muttered, "but I always felt that something was wrong, something didn't make sense...... I feel like it's not clean, it's not just...... Heri, when you look at this holy book, don't you have ...... Even a little bit, inexplicably ......"

Edwin opened his bloodshot eyes and looked at Fortner, "Fear?" ”