Chapter 507 8.26 Mergwen's Research (2)

Chapter 507 26 Mergwin’s Research (2)

The books Emma Waldorf took out from the Obsidian Pyramid are completely different from the Book of the Dead collected by the Byzantine scholars!

Because there are actually two completely different texts written in these "Books of the Dead"!

The line on the right is not much different from the hieroglyphs written by the Stygian priests.

Really weird left.

The line of text on the left is not similar to the hieroglyphics used by the ancient Egyptian civilization, but a language made of dense triangles stacked up.

This writing is very similar to the cuneiform writing used in the ancient Babylonian kingdom.

But there is no doubt that it is more primitive and more ancient.

This involves another ancient civilization that achieved advanced development-the Sumerians.

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In 4000 BC, the ancient Egyptians of the Nile River were not the only civilization that achieved an advanced ejection start.

In the Mesopotamian plains, the Sumerians also broke away from barbarism and built large city-states. After bloody battles between different city-states, in 1800 BC, "Hammurabi" unified the Mesopotamian plains.

His territory spread from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, becoming a huge empire of that era second only to ancient Egypt.

The pharaohs drove out slaves to build the majestic pyramids, but the king of Babylon would not give in any more. Known as the "city blessed by the gods", the city of Babylon was the most prosperous city of that era.

The ancient Greek historian "Herodotus" once left a complete travel diary when he visited this city.

In Herodotus's notebooks, he used a quill pen to carefully draw hundreds of pictures, including the huge Tower of Babel in the city and countless gods living in the towers.

Outer gods, ancient gods walk in this majestic city and live together with humans.

Black stone tablets were erected at both ends of the street, with cuneiform characters engraved on them the laws that gods and humans must abide by.

This is a great city that is not inferior to Thebes, the "City of Hundred Gates".

Unfortunately, like Thebes, the city of Babylon did not usher in a happy ending.

In the civil war of the Assyrian Kingdom around 700 BC, the city of Babylon was destroyed by war, and the majestic "Tower of Babel" and the "Hanging Gardens" disappeared in the long river of history.

The books of the dead that Emma took out from the obsidian pyramid actually have the handwriting of these two ancient civilizations, and they are symmetrically distributed, like documents specially prepared for "translation".

Although Mergwen has not been in the academy for a long time, she is still keenly aware of the hidden problems.

If the "Book of the Dead" is indeed as the scholars said, it is the "life of the dead" handed over to Osiris, the god of the underworld.

There is no need to write two handwritings in this kind of book!

The existence of two ancient writings at the same time can only mean one thing - this thing does not belong to the gods!

The Book of the Dead was written to mankind.

Considering that "Old Babylon" and "Ancient Egypt" were the two most powerful countries in that ancient era; when they were at their most powerful, these two countries were only separated by the Mediterranean Sea.

Mergwin felt as if there was only a thin layer of paper between herself and the truth.

As long as it is discovered, the research on these two ancient civilizations will make a huge leap at the same time!

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Unfortunately, there is often a huge gap between reality and ideals.

However, entering the Black Desert is completely different from her sister Emma's journey to the New World.

At this time, the new leader of the "Aztec Empire" in the New World, "Pure One" Youmu, is Emma's friend. When she steps into the land of the New World, Emma can use all the resources she needs at will.

The free people in the Black Desert have never surrendered to any nobles in the Western Continent.

After many twists and turns, Mergwin was forced to rely on his family. The most reliable partner of "Waldorf Astoria Trading Company" in the Northern Route route is "Mohammed Harsh".

At this time, Mergwin had arrived in Memphis in advance and waited for him in the "Sand Lake Hotel" for three full days.

Mergwin's journey was far from smooth.

First of all, her status in the Royal Academy of Sciences is completely incomparable to that of her sister.

In recent years, Emma has opened up a stable route from the Mediterranean to the New World, which has not only allowed everyone to deepen their understanding of "Amazon warriors" and "Mayan civilization"

A new channel has also been developed.

Chocolate, coffee, and rubber were in-demand goods that once required desperadoes to obtain through bloody battles. At this time, they were being shipped back from the New World in a steady stream.

To obtain these products, you only need to provide some extremely low-priced cheese, salt, glass, and steel.

All merchants along this route need to thank Emma for her services to the Byzantine Empire.

Emma walked in Constantinople, and the citizens of Rome respected her no less than the mayor and senators. The rolling in of gold coins caused Byzantine King Michael III to increase the budget of the Royal Academy of Sciences year after year.

The origin of all this stems from the value she created for the empire.

By contrast, Mergwin's research was inherently not taken seriously.

Whether it is "Ancient Egypt" or "Ancient Babylon", these two ancient countries have been destroyed for hundreds of years. Except for some funerary objects hidden in the tombs that can be preserved, most of the evidence that these two countries once existed has disappeared.

In this case, she can't provide any substantial help to the Royal Academy of Sciences except for some irrelevant "academic documents".

The free people in the desert do have a lot of scarce goods. But as we all know, in the endless sea of ​​sand in the northern continent, free people are not the biggest enemy of merchants.

The boundless black desert is.

Human power is too small in front of nature, and conquering the desert is obviously not realistic in this era.

In other words, she can't bring profits to the Academy of Sciences.

Without profits, there will be no research funds.

In the case of only expenses and no income, the chief scholars of the Academy of Sciences will not invest too many resources in her.

There is not even a mentor who followed Mergwen into the black desert this time. Even though she was from the Waldorf family and had the title of "Emma's sister", the chief scholar of the Northern Continent, "Sappho Glass", only symbolically sent 7 students who had not yet graduated to come with her.

Among the 7 people, there were two Mohist disciples who had just traveled across the ocean from the Eastern Continent.

Rather than saying that the two Easterners were doing research together, Sappho's real intention was to let them integrate into the collective of the scholars as soon as possible and get familiar with their working methods.

The inspection funds were only symbolically given 120 dinar gold coins.

The only thing the Royal Academy of Sciences could provide was a pass issued by the Academy City.

This document, which was printed with the signatures of 24 chief scholars of the "Royal Academy of Sciences", as well as the Byzantine King "Mikhail III" and Pope "Gregory III", could prove that everyone in the team was indeed from Constantinople.

If they needed any help on the way, the Royal Academy of Sciences would double it in the future.

That was all.