Chapter 733: Egypt
Hermione was excited, and Van Lin could see this, and Hermione had been excited since the London airport.
The two of them traveled together, which was something that had never been experienced before.
From the moment the plane entered Egypt, Hermione was no longer reading, but instead dragged Van Lin to the window to look at the Egyptian landscape.
The endless desert and the towering pyramids are all things that make Hermin excited.
I've been listening to Ron before, but except for Ron, none of my friends have been there.
Although there is some heat in Egypt, the humanoid self-propelled refrigerator is fully effective, playing the most appropriate banner, adjusting the surrounding temperature according to Hermione's adaptation.
Well, so, the girl next to her was not affected at all, although Hermione's face was red and she looked quite good-looking, but Van Lin still felt that it was better to be stable, and if she suffered from heat stroke, the car would be more completely overturned.
Still, the grandeur of those pyramids kept the two little wizards from forgetting.
Scattered among the sandy fields, these pyramids of various sizes, these mausoleums made of huge stone blocks stand on the land of Egypt, showing off their grandeur and magnificence.
They represent the majesty of the emperor, both during life and after death, and these mausoleums made of huge stones are devoted to the protection of the emperor and the peace of the emperor.
Even in the distant sky, the magical aura from distant ancient Egypt still stimulated Vanlin's nerves.
It was magic that enabled Egypt to achieve such an incredible miracle.
Van Lin has specifically learned that from the time of Amrat, Egypt began the predynastic era. By the second phase of the predynastic period (i.e., the Gelsen period), Egyptian private ownership and royal power were established, and the image of the eagle god Horus, a symbol of royal power, can be found in the excavated cultural relics. In the latter part of the Gersai period, the state emerged, but it was small in size and small in population, and then the states continued to fight among themselves, and gradually unified into the upper Nile valley region and the Nile estuary delta region, the Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt states. Hieroglyphs also appeared at this time and have been used for more than 3,500 years.
Around 3100 B.C., legend has it that the king of Upper Egypt, Menes, unified Upper and Lower Egypt and established the First Dynasty, with the capital at Memphis (now the western suburbs of Cairo), becoming the first pharaoh of ancient Egypt, and ancient Egypt began its dynastic period. At this time, Egypt already had several basic characteristics of civilization, such as administrative officials, soldiers, religion, writing, etc.
Beginning with the unification of Menes' dynasty, Egypt also formally established the system and name of the pharaoh.
As one of the four ancient civilizations, Egypt is also the only country that has established its dominance by magic.
Every pharaoh is an incomparably powerful wizard, and the power of ancient wizards is naturally needless to say, and as the strongest, in Egypt, the strongest is always the pharaoh, the collection of Muggle kingship, divine power and the unity of the wizarding world.
It can be said that in ancient Egypt, the development of magic can be said to have reached its peak, and magic was established as a symbol of royal power, which was probably one of Voldemort's wishes, wizards ruled Muggles, and all Muggles could only become inferior.
And the pyramid is a manifestation of this pinnacle of magic.
It is like the monarch of a dynasty, who rules the dynasty during his lifetime and tries to conquer hell after his death.
Naturally, the pyramid was the palace for their conquest in the underworld.
Naturally, as a powerful wizard, he always has to make a lot of preparations for the unknown realm, which can be said to be a lifelong learning, even if the pyramid has been developed, the uncracked area still makes the spell solver dare not approach easily.
Let's take three famous pyramids, for example.
They are located on the outskirts of the open field and are also the most famous of the three pyramids, the Pyramid of Khufu, the Pyramid of Buffre and the Pyramid of Menkaure.
They were built sequentially in chronological order.
The Pyramid of Khufu, the tomb of Khufu, the second king of the Fourth Dynasty, was built around 2690 BC. Until the Eiffel Tower was erected in Paris in 1888, it was the tallest building in the world.
The second pyramid, the mausoleum of King Hafra, the son of Khufu, was built in 2650 BC and is 3 meters lower than the former, and is now 133.5 meters high. Since it is slightly higher above the ground, it appears to be a little taller than the pyramid of Khufu. But the architectural form is more perfect and spectacular, with outbuildings such as temples and the famous Sphinx built in front of the tower. With the exception of the lion's claws, which are made of stone, the entire Sphinx is hewn out of a huge natural rock. It has a history of more than 4,500 years.
The third pyramid belonged to King Menkaura, the grandson of Khufu, and was built around 2600 BC. It was the time of the decline of the Fourth Dynasty, and the architecture of the pyramids began to corrode. The height of the pyramid of Menkaula was abruptly reduced to 66 meters, and the internal structure collapsed.
The unified, three pyramids of Khufu, both in terms of architecture and in terms of framing the rooms, were beyond the reach of the Egyptian people at that time.
For Muggles, this is a miracle, and for wizards, the information revealed from the three pyramids can almost last a lifetime for a wizard obsessed with ancient Egyptian magic.
Not only that, but each golden tower was cursed by the Pharaoh.
As for curses, it's not just magic that can be solved.
Now, all Van Lin knows, only the Holy See and the Greek side have the means to deal with this strange magic, but it is not as weird as African witchcraft, and the price paid is not small.
It is a very dangerous thing to burn the soul with the power of faith.
If a wizard can't even keep his soul pure, practicing magic or something is just a delusion.
The power of faith burns, and there is only one final result, and that is to completely change one's faith.
If a wizard does not believe in the wand in his hand and believes in some unknown god, it will become extremely difficult to progress, and the power of magic will change little by little, and the strength of the wizard is subject to the gods, so there is an upper limit.
This was basically impossible for those ancient wizards to accept.
Therefore, in addition to the use of curse magic in the land of Africa, other circulation is only some extremely simple things, and in this pyramid, there is no comparison between the curses arranged by the pharaoh himself.
Take Voldemort's Xuzhou Road as an example, the maximum is nothing more than death.
And the Egyptian spell solver, once he is cursed, what the curse says, then what will really happen.
Like, death?
The number of spell solvers who die in Egypt every year is incomparably large, and fortunately, Gringotts pays them well enough that these rich goblins are like fish in water in the land of Egypt full of treasures.
Regarding the Pyramid of Khufu, Van Lin also knows something more secretive.
Van Lin remembered what Etonen had said, and if it was not clear what else was going on about the election and the confrontation, it was certain that in the Pyramid of Khufu, the most authentic means of combining the sorcerer and the god of death must have been most perfectly interpreted.
This is probably the reason why Dumbledore agreed that he would not look for Horcruxes at this critical time, but would come to Egypt to study alchemy.
For Muggles, the Pyramid of Khufu has no secrets other than a mysterious curse, but according to what Van Lin received from Bill, the Pyramid of Khufu was not even half broken, and the goblins of Gringotts had withdrawn all the spell breakers from there.
This has almost become a forbidden place in the Egyptian magical world, a forbidden place that is completely impossible to approach.