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Chapter 458 The Lost Civilization

Go out the next day and drive to the Valley of the Kings.

But Ye Kai accidentally found the three brothers who sent him here yesterday outside the car window. Judging from the route, they should also go to the Valley of the Kings today.

When the few people separated yesterday, no one mentioned such things as leaving contact information. Everyone came here from their own country for tourism, so what to do when they return home after the tour, there is no need to make a friend who has no chance to contact.

Encounters and partings are common occurrences in travelling.

Their car was relatively fast, and quickly overtook the taxi that Ye Kai was in, but the Valley of the Kings was not far away, and when they arrived at the parking lot, Ye Kai happened to see them coming out of the parking lot.

Ye Kai hurriedly paid the bill, and shouted over there: "Qiang En!"

Qiang Stan was playing with his mobile phone, and suddenly raised his head and asked his friend, "Who called me?"

"I should have also heard someone called Qiang En... Forget who will call you in this kind of place, go in quickly, I heard that there is a queue for visiting here, go to the queue earlier."

Sean turned around and started searching: "I heard Ye's voice... Hey, it's really him!"

Ye Kai quickly ran over and hugged the three of them. He thought that there would be no chance to see each other again, but he didn't expect that they would meet again the next day.

"According to our Chinese language, this is 'yuanfen', which means that everything is predestined by heaven."

Now that we've met, let's all enter the Valley of the Kings together.

When Luxor was not called Luxor before, it had another name called Thebes. For a long time, Thebes was the political center of Egyptian civilization, where the pharaohs lived.

At the time, Thebes was so prosperous that there were more than 100 gates alone. Homer called it "the capital of a hundred gates", and it was the largest city in the world at that time.

The Valley of the Kings is the tomb area of ​​the pharaohs and nobles of the 18th to 20th dynasties in the New Dynasty of ancient Egypt (China should be the Yin and Shang period), and now more than 70 tombs have been developed, known as the "Great Tomb of the Pharaohs of All Generations".

The pharaohs chose to be buried in this inaccessible valley at that time, in order to avoid the rampant tomb robbery at that time, but they could hide from the first day of the new year but not the fifteenth day, and now they will be dug out for you.

And it's reasonable and legal.

The tickets are very cheap and only cost 100 Egyptian pounds. After buying the tickets, everyone started to drill into the hole...

It's a tomb after all.

Because of the visit to the Queen's Temple yesterday, Ye Kai was more interested in Egyptian murals and reliefs, and the murals in the tomb were well preserved, and they seemed to be stories one by one.

Ye Kai looked down one by one and found that these murals are very interesting.

For example, there is a painting depicting a dead emperor taking off his crown, wearing sandals, going to the eagle-headed god, and surrendering his scepter.The next picture is that God accepted him, so he can go barefoot without shoes just like God.

With no scepter in his hand, no shoes on his feet, and nothing to do, he immediately seemed so at ease.

This is just a small story among countless murals, and there are many other stories that I don't understand, but I feel very meaningful after thinking about it. These murals once made Ye Kai forget that this is a tomb, not a study.

The three of Qiang En had already finished their shopping, and they stood aside and waited for Ye Kai.

"What is he watching? He seems fascinated. It feels the same as when I was watching a movie."

"You watch movies? Don't you always eat chips when you watch movies? Oh, you mean like when you eat? Don't worry about us laughing at you, we are good brothers."

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Ye Kai was about to look at the next pair, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sean Colter standing beside him.

Looking back, Qiang Stan and Robert Brosius had already finished visiting the mausoleum and stood idly by. Ye Kai checked the time, 40 minutes had passed, and this was only the first mausoleum.

There are sixteen more tombs behind them waiting to be explored.

Ye Kai scratched his hair. There are still some murals here that he hasn't finished reading, and this place is not allowed to take pictures, so he can't take these short stories and go home to savor them slowly.

For him these murals are one of the best ways to understand Egypt.

"Why don't you go to other mausoleums first, I want to see the murals here, I think it will take a long time, sorry."

Robert said: "Dude, you don't have to apologize. If I can understand the story above, I will definitely be like you. You must be a historian."

"No, I'm just a photographer. It's a pity that I can't give full play to my strengths here."

Throughout the Valley of the Kings, photography is prohibited.

"Haha, see you next time." Qiang Enstein said with a wave of his hand.

Since this is the second time they met, Ye Kai explained the matter of fate again, and everyone added Facebook friends to each other. Although this software chat is not as convenient as WeChat, it is enough to be able to contact people.

After they left, Ye Kai continued to look at the murals, but accelerated his speed.

Even if you don’t understand some of the stories, remember them in your mind first and then go home and think about them slowly. Otherwise, it may be night after reading the stories on these murals...

No one would stay in this kind of place till night, and Ye Kai was no exception.

The more Egyptian stories he read, the more Ye Kai was shocked by the Egyptian civilization. Just as the Chinese civilization is a history of war, so is the Egyptian civilization.

The Egypt that people see now is far from the real ancient Egypt.

The civilization of China is in the same line, but Egypt does not seem to be like this. Of course they have their own civilization, but they seem to be separated so many times that they feel like two countries.

Luxor was once home to the world's most luxurious capital and the largest city in the world.

But if the entire Egyptian civilization is divided into 5000 years, then the first 3000 years are the era of the pharaohs, with the center in Memphis, and then in Thebes, which is now Luxor.

The next 1000 years were the Greco-Roman era, with Alexandria at the center of Egypt.

The last 1000 years can be said to be the Arabian age, centered in Cairo.

It can be seen that the transfer of the center of Egypt is related to the invasion of foreign races, and the biggest result of each invasion is often mixed population and mixed blood.Therefore, different mixed tribes live in different cities, and the real ancient Egyptian blood is difficult to find.

Today's Egyptians can roughly know the origin of his blood as long as they ask him where he comes from.

Luxor has continued the pharaonic civilization for more than 3000 years, after two center migrations and foreign invasions.What we see now are only sporadic remains, and the civilization of ancient Egypt is left among the ruins.

Ye Kai thought that the ancient civilization of Egypt had basically been lost.

(End of this chapter)