Chapter 115 What is this person doing?
When Chen Ai returned to his room with a daze, Dean Wang was waiting for him.
"What did you do? Why did you go for so long?"
"After answering a few questions, Mr. Jin introduced a friend. Most of the local scholars in Egypt do not agree with my opinion. Mr. Said likes me very much. I will go to Cairo University next week..."
Chen Ai's answer with a bad mouth made Wang Yuan stunned for a moment. After sorting out his explanation, Wang Yuan understood and asked, "Mr. Jin introduced you to a friend? That person invited you to Cairo University?"
"Um."
"It seems that they are very satisfied with you, not to go alone when you are going next week. I also want to see how the schools here are different from ours..."
After the Wang Yuan knew about these situations, he left here. He found that Chen Ai had a few more books in his hand. It seems that Egyptian scholars also like to give books to others. The books in Chen Ai were given by the Egyptian scholar Sayed. Two were written by himself, about the ancient Egyptian field, and three were given to him by his friends.
Now, he has given all these books to Chen Ai.
During the conversation with Chen Ai, the Egyptian scholar was completely impressed by Chen Ai. He said that in order to thank Chen Ai for his research on ancient Egypt, he had to give him some gifts, so he gave these books in his private name. He also promised Mr. Jin that the Egyptian historical research institutions would definitely commend Chen Ai.
Chen Ai didn't care much about the rewards, he was just happy because he had new books to read.
One of the important purposes of Mr. Jin's visit this time was to go to the Nile Delta, because 110 ancient tombs were excavated at a ruins here, and the oldest tomb is more than 8,000 years old. Mr. Jin was very happy. Egypt also needed scholars from all over the world who studied ancient Egypt to help them excavate, so Mr. Jin was invited to study this ancient tomb.
In fact, it was not only Mr. Jin who was invited, but also scholars from Europe and the United States gathered in this hotel. The most were French scholars, with seventeen people. On the first day of their arrival in Egypt, these Frenchmen couldn't wait to go to the scene and kept urging local officials.
Mr. Jin knew most of these people, and foreign scholars often came to visit him. As for Chen Ai, he was a nameless little person. Everyone just regarded him as Mr. Jin's student. Even if they had read Chen Ai's articles, they did not pay much attention. Foreigners don't like unsociable guys like Chen Ai.
Mr. Jin's disciple Zhu Long was able to play with them even more. His humorous and funny personality soon made him make many friends. Unlike the serious academic style in our country, the foreigners' academic atmosphere is relatively relaxed. They stand together in three or three, smile, jump around, and move in a relatively large range.
Just a few old professors who can't find their faces under their beards are also very relaxed to their students. They get along more like friends of the same age, while Mr. Jin's side is like elders and juniors.
When everyone was almost there, Mr. Said appeared again and took them into the car in batches to prepare to go to the area unearthed at the site. Chen Ai and Wang Yuan were sitting in the same car. Wang Yuan was also very interested when he heard about the tomb. He had not seen Egyptian tombs with his own eyes. This time he could still open his eyes when he came with Chen Ai.
"Egypt is different from us. If a new tomb is unearthed there, we will never invite foreign scholars. Our own scholars are enough... But here is Egypt. Although the historical heritage is very good, the historical field is not very... Well, it is not very developed. They have many religious factors here..."
Wang Yuan explained to Chen Ai that there may be two main reasons for Egypt's backward history. The first is that Egypt's economic development itself is not very good, and the second is that it has too strong religious factors. In Egypt, there are many religious scholars who deny the existence of ancient Egypt. Perhaps it is because ancient Egypt existed much earlier than the time when God created humanity.
They oppose all archaeology and history, believing that this is contrary to the doctrine. The history of modern Middle East has not been able to develop well for a long time. This is probably the reason. When encountering moderates, at most they will accuse you of being wrong in engaging in archaeology, but if you encounter extremists, then wait and lose your head.
In the eyes of these people, there is no difference between archaeology and tomb robbery. Even these people who shouted all day long that things happened in ancient times were even more hateful than tomb robbers because they desecrated someone. A Middle Eastern scholar once was executed for writing a book called "The History of the Development of So-and-so"... It is really unimaginable why such things still exist in the 21st century!
Egyptian archaeologists are respectable. These people are engaged in this job and follow the past of their ancestors, and have taken a lot of hostility to this. In order to tell the truth, they even have to take the risk of losing their heads.
Chen Ai couldn't understand these things, but saw Wang Yuan shook his head and sighing. Because of the lack of manpower, historiography was not well developed, many discoveries in Egypt were either unable to preserve or discovered by foreigners... It can only be said that a country cannot even protect its own past, which is a very pitiful thing. After a period of running around, they finally arrived at their destination.
They built simple tents here, all of which were all military tents. The person in charge called these scholars into a large tent, and everyone surrounded them and watched their latest achievements.
In the site, many round and oval pottery jars were unearthed, as well as many stone tablet amulets, scarabs, stone tools and knives made of flint. When scholars saw this, they were immediately fascinated. The blonde and blue-eyed guys even shouted and started talking loudly in a voice ten decibels higher than everyone else.
Mr. Jin, Chen Ai, and several people in the Wangyuan stared quietly at the cultural relics. Chen Ai's eyes swept over the unearthed cultural images and finally landed on a simple amulet. The amulet was different from other amulets, and there were many spots all over his body. Anyway, people with dense phobia would not dare to look at this thing. Chen Ai stared at the thing and turned his head.
Mr. Jin looked at a clay pot. This clay pot was very different from the clay pots unearthed in the past. From shape to size, it looked a bit strange, more like... the style of the eastern coast of ancient Egypt, but the problem was that this place was not the eastern part. Mr. Jin decided to exchange views with Chen Ai. He turned his head and saw Chen Ai staring at a talisman.
Mr. Jin asked in confusion: "What did you find?"
"Character."
"What??"
“Those spots…”
Mr. Jin was shocked and looked down quickly. Several scholars around him were frightened by his actions and moved aside. Mr. Jin took another step closer and almost looked closely, but no matter how he looked, they were all spots. There were spots like this, and there were not a shortage of colored copper in the past. Mr. Jin could not see any strangeness in this, nor could he see any words.
But Chen Ai took out a pen and paper at this moment, looking at the spots, as if he was copying something.
“What??”
"What is this guy doing?"
Several scholars around him couldn't help but scream as they looked at Chen Ai's actions.
Chapter completed!