Chapter 53: Disembowelment
"Holy, such a beast? Even the dead should be ranked? The old ghost asked, "Do you want to be a cushion when you die?" ”
I hurriedly corrected: "It's not that the dead are graded, it's that the coffins used in the tombs are different." In ancient Egypt, hierarchies were very strict. You think it's okay to just bury it? Isn't that no different from the Pharaoh and these slaves? In ancient times, pharaohs were kings when they were alive. When they die, they will also be leaders in hell. ”
"Superstition, self-deception!" The old ghost said.
When I heard the old ghost's words, I couldn't help but laugh, so I said, "How many kings have not thought like this throughout the ages, and have not been so superstitious and self-deceiving? ”
The old ghost smiled and said, "That's right! ”
As we spoke, we suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind our necks, as if something was blowing on the back of our necks. It really scared us into a cold sweat, but no one looked back. It's not that we're not afraid, it's that we really don't dare to look back, we still know the story of "wolf on the shoulder". Although this is not a forest, it is really hard to say whether there are wolves or other beasts.
If you look closely, you immediately feel that something is wrong. Judging from the shadow and the voice, it really wasn't the yin wind, it was indeed the giant hound! All three of them couldn't help but be shocked, when did this thing get behind us? Whether there are other passages or forks, it is impossible to say whether it is the other end.
"Let's not look back, throw the torch first, and give it a shuttle from under the armpit!" I said to the old ghost and Qian Chengjian.
The reason why there is a shadow is because of the rush just now. The old ghost stuck a torch in the rock wall. And only Qian Cheng and I have torches in our hands, that is, we only have two torches in our hands now. However, it is enough to make a dazzling look at the giant hound.
Qian Cheng and the old ghost nodded to me in agreement. The three of us slowly put the muzzle of the gun behind us, and Qian Cheng and I were holding a torch in one hand and a gun in the other.
I counted on my hands: "One...... Two...... Three! ”
As soon as we counted to three, Qian Chengcheng and I threw the torches in our hands backwards. Immediately afterwards, the three of them pulled the trigger one after another. But after all, such an angle was very bad for us, and all three of us were shocked by the recoil of the gun.
The three of us reacted fairly quickly. Although it was a fall to the ground. But he quickly turned around and lay down like this, and carried out a crazy strafing of the giant hound in front of him.
My method was expected to be okay, and although the torches did not cause any serious damage to the hounds, they still had a dazzling effect.
The giant Pharaoh's Hound was blinded by two torches and ducked. But when it turns around. It's already too late. There was no time to dodge the bullets we fired. Just listen to the muffled sound of "poof, poof, ......". Suddenly blood splattered. The hound screamed and fell in a pool of blood.
In order to prevent this thing from being completely dead, the three of us cautiously stepped forward to check it. This. It was Qian Cheng who took the lead, and he was the first to propose to check and inspect. The three of them approached the beast with their guns in hand.
However, as soon as we approached the bloody hound, a strong wind rushed behind us. There was a violent impact from behind us, knocking all three of us on our backs. The gun in his hand was also not firmly grasped, and he was out of his hand at once. But luckily there was a rope hanging from the body, so it didn't fall too far.
Looking back, it turned out that there was really more than one such giant Pharaoh Hound. The one who just died, it was the other one. Before we could react, the giant hound pounced on Qian Cheng.
"Be careful!" I shouted nervously at the same time as the old ghost.
Fortunately, Qian Cheng reacted quickly enough, and grabbed the front paws of the two giant hounds that pounced at once, so that he was not injured. The giant hound will give up? Opening the bloody mouth is like Qian Cheng biting into the past. Qian Cheng hurriedly dodged, but made the giant hound Harazi confused. It's sticky, it's disgusting.
The old ghost and I could still stand by and watch while pulling out the saber on our trouser legs, one by one. He stabbed towards the body of the giant hound, "fluttering", and suddenly blood splattered. We used all our strength until the handle was prescribed.
The giant hound may have been in real pain, or it may have wanted to resist. With a shake and a "stab", two large openings were cut in the body. Suddenly, all the internal organs flowed to the ground. The scene is extremely bloody, which makes people a little evil.
The giant Pharaoh's Hound was disemboweled, and after two wails, it lost its breath and died.
However, we actually made a small square box in the belly of this giant beast. When I opened it, it turned out to be a notebook, like a person's work diary. It reads:
Pharaoh was the honorific title of the ancient Egyptian monarchs. It is a Hebrew transliteration of Egyptian, written in hieroglyphs, meaning big house, and in the Old Kingdom era (about 2686~2181 BC) it only refers to the royal palace and does not refer to the king himself.
From the eighteenth dynasty of the New Kingdom, Thutmose III, it began to be used for the king himself, and gradually evolved into an honorific title for the king. After the 22nd Dynasty (945~730 BC), it became the official title of king. It is customary to refer to the kings of ancient Egypt as pharaohs.
As the first monarch of slavery, Pharaoh held the military, judicial, and religious power of the country, and his will was the law, and he was the supreme ruler of ancient Egypt. Pharaoh claimed to be the son of the sun god Amun-rai, the agent and embodiment of the god on earth, and his subjects worshipped him as if he were a god.
Standing at the top of the pyramid of power, Pharaoh is the embodiment of God with absolute authority. The ancient Egyptians worshipped the pharaoh to the point of madness, and the name of the pharaoh alone had an irresistible magic, and officials took pride in kissing the pharaoh's feet.
After the pharaoh's death, his body was made into a dried corpse, or "mummy", and placed in a burial chamber inside the pyramid. The pyramids are the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs, which are the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Egyptians. Most of the pyramids were built during the reign of the Third to Sixth Dynasties of the Kingdom of Ancient Egypt (i.e., 2800-2300 BC).
There are more than 70 pyramids in Egypt, among which the pyramid of the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, located in Giza, is the most majestic. The tower is 146.5 meters high. It is about 1 kilometer around the circumference and covers an area of 52,900 square meters. The tower is made of 2,300,000 stone blocks, with an average weight of 2.5 tons per stone, the largest of which weighs 15 tons. There is no sticking between the stones, and they are tightly pressed together by the weight of the stones. It has lasted nearly 5,000 years, and the foundation of the tower is still very strong. The internal structure of the Pyramid of Khufu is also quite complex, resembling a very large palace.
Several inscriptions of Tutankhamun's curse have been found in Tutankhamun's tomb, one of which reads: "Whoever disturbs the pharaoh's sleep, death will spread its wings and descend on his head." In another place it is written: "Whoever enters this tomb with an impure heart, I will strangle him by the neck like a bird."
The tomb door of the youngest pharaoh was opened at the same time. Mystery ensues. First, Carter's beloved canary was swallowed by a cobra. Subsequently. Count Carnavon died of an unknown disease transmitted by a mosquito bite. The bite was the site of the scar on Tutankhamun's face. And last September, when Hawass, the chairman of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, performed a CT examination of the mummy at Tutankhamun's tomb, a series of incredible things happened.
According to the Egyptian newspaper "Izvestia", the Valley of the Kings was stormy at that time. The advanced equipment that had just been purchased from the United States failed for an hour and a half for no reason. The report says. Havas did not believe in the "curse of Pharaoh." He also comforted the staff: "Don't be afraid, it won't be Pharaoh's curse." At that moment, his cell phone rang. It was his sister who called: "My husband died suddenly!" ”。 Folklore has it that there is a curse of the Egyptian pharaoh, which is yet to be verified.
The pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, the son of Seti I, ruled Egypt for 67 years, the longest reigning and most influential pharaoh in the history of ancient Egypt, marking the peak of the power of the Egyptian Empire. Sitting on the chariot, he is heroic, which also symbolizes the bloody wind of his reign.
Ramses II was the greatest pharaoh of Egypt, a great architect and a great warrior. During his 66-year reign in Egypt, he gave birth to a total of 100 children. Ramses II had a total of 8 formal wives and almost 100 concubines. He died in 1212 BC at the age of 90.
Ramses II had 12 children shorter than him, and by the time he finally gave up the throne to his thirteenth son, he was already a bad old man.
In 1881, the mummy of Ramses II was found mixed among 40 mummies in the Valley of the Kings (Deirbahri). Nearly 100 years later, when his mummy was transported to Paris for treatment (because of a bacterial infection), he was given a special passport with the following in the occupation column: King (already dead).
X-rays of Ramses II's mummy revealed that his nose was stuffed with pepper, presumably to preserve his beautiful hooked nose. He was also found to have osteoarthritis of the lower back, heart disease, and an abscess between the mouth and jaw.
If Tutankhamun was the most famous pharaoh, his father-in-law, Akhenaten, was the most controversial. Aside from the fact that he looked like a girl, the Egyptian was most angry when he overturned the conventional polytheistic beliefs in favor of monotheistic beliefs.
Akhenaten's father, Amenhotep III, was the most bragging pharaoh, boasting that he had killed 56 bison in one hunting game.
Ramses III sent large ships to be towed by land to the Red Sea, from which they were finally set sail for Somalia in order to obtain a resin spice for the gods.
In the 15th century BC, Thutmosis III was probably the first pharaoh to pierce his ears. He was a good hunter, bluffing that he had killed 120 elephants and 120 bison in an hour, and that he had killed seven lions in the blink of an eye.
Tuthmosis III hated his mother, Hatshepsut; Hashepsu was the daughter of Thutmose I and the wife of II; Thutmose III was born to the second harem concubine), so he vandalized her monuments, including building a high wall around her obelisk, and lied that it was to protect future generations.
Amenhotepii was a famous Hercules whose bow was so strong that no soldier could pull it. On one occasion he shot 300 arrows in a row, and each arrow penetrated the bullseye of bronze.
Amenhotep III was probably the most handsome pharaoh of all time, with more self-portraits than anyone else, and about 1,000 statues to show people how handsome he was.
The most famous statues of Amanhotep III are the two Emnon statues in Luxor. They were carved from a single piece of quartz, about 21 meters high, and the stone was transported from the Aswin quarry, 400 kilometers away. There is an old legend that one of the Colossi statues of Manny would make a whining cry in the early morning and at dusk, which once frightened several Roman emperors who came to visit.
Considering himself handsome, Amanhotep III married an Iraqi princess, and when this princess married Egypt, in addition to a large dowry, she also brought 317 court ladies to serve her. In order to please the princess, Amanhotep III dug a 1,700-meter-long artificial lake (located in the present-day Karnak Temple of Lukso) in 15 days.
Akhenaten (also known as Amanhotep IV) overthrew the conventional polytheistic beliefs in favor of monotheistic beliefs (Aten; The sun god of Aton, in the form of a red sun disk), and people called him something like Moses' forerunner or Jesus' forerunner, which made the Egyptians half dead.
Akhenaten was very different in appearance and body, like a girl, and in the 19th century, an ancient Egyptian historian claimed that Akhenaten may have been a pharaoh disguised as a man.
Akhenaten's temples and memorials were systematically demolished after his death by Tutankhamun and his despinners, and his name was erased from inscriptions and other historical records.
Scientific Theory of Pharaoh's Curse:
The list goes on and on, and one has to ask: how did these people die, and what about Pharaoh's curse? It has been suggested that the ancient Egyptians may have used viruses against tomb robbers.
In 1963, Cairo University medical professor Izetin Tayi published an article saying that, based on his experience with many archaeologists, they all had a virus that causes inflammation of the respiratory tract. He believed that the people who entered the pharaoh's tomb were infected with the virus, causing pneumonia and died.
In 1983, Philippe, a French female doctor, put forward another idea. She believed that it was not the virus but the mold that was deadly, and because of the large amount of food in the pharaoh's burial goods, over time, a large number of mold dust formed in the tomb. Those who enter the tomb inevitably inhale this fine dust, which leads to an infection of the lungs and a painful death. (To be continued......)