Plague Doctor

“Mr. Edwin, you can watch as long as you want. It's just an opening dish, and we have better things to do, if you're interested. ”

In the bright office, George Edwin sat behind the desk, and as soon as he saw this piece of pottery, his heart jumped.

There are many differences between counterfeits and authentic products, and many details can be seen at a glance for someone like him who has been trading in Egyptian antiquities for more than three decades.

Experience now tells him that this is a genuine product.

However, Edwin did not appear to be moving, and his hands, wearing gloves, took over this large piece of slap from the trafficker and saw the unmasked excitement of the three traffickers.

The other side was three local men who had found him through the middleman, Paul Smith, who was watching right now. Both know that most of these traffickers are new, never know where to get some babies, and are in a hurry to sell money, which is usually a good price for both sides.

“Let me see.” Edwin cautiously grabbed the debris with one hand, and the other took the magnifying glass and began to identify it.

They don't ask how things come. It's none of their business. They only care about the authenticity of things.

As long as it's true and bought at a good price, these things can naturally appear at auction houses in England, Citi, and then sell at a high price.

Determining the authenticity of the artefacts in your hands is the only thing Edwin cares about.

Once you've taken this piece, you can already see a line of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, which are holy scriptures, in Edwin before you look at it.

[𓀶𓀏𓇳𓀏]

Edwin's head wrinkled, feeling a little strange in his heart...

“What do you say?” Bashir, the cultural relic dealer, asked a little nervously.

Paul-Smith also looked around and had some knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, “King, Sun God, the inscriptions are well preserved and you don't know if they are true or false. ”

“Of course it's true.” That's what Basildon said, and Ella said, “Let me tell you something, we still have a few pieces of this.” Eldin noted Edwin's old facial contemplation and asked: “What does the picture above mean? ”

“Literally means King + Rebel, Sun God + Rebel with Crown Staff. ”

Edwin looked closely at those four words with a magnifying glass, "The rebels are in the back, and there's no name and no king's circle, so it should mean, it's the rebels of the time, the rebels, the rebels, the kings, the Sun gods. This fragment is most likely from the grave of the rebels. ”

Basher, Ella, Eldington looked at each other from time to time, and that was not the royal kinship.

If so, it seems to make sense why there are no mausoleums, not even coffins...

But Bashir sounded like a means of depressing the price, shouting, “Mr. Edwin, I don't care if you're a rebel or not, it's an Egyptian monument. ”

“I didn't say it wasn't.” Edwin whispered that he had gradually become God, that the ceramic fragment was of very high quality and clear texture, and that the Holy Scripture was one of the earliest fonts used in ancient Egypt, and if it was a scripture that weighed heavily on meaning, it could even date back to 3000 BC.

The Holy Scripture later slowly evolved to retain only its vowel function, a bit like the English alphabet.

The earliest Holy Scripture, with its emphasis on form and expression, is very graphic, understanding the meaning to be expressed by looking at the diagrams.

But if it's just a fragment and four words, Edwin can't tell what period of Holy Scripture this is, what does it mean...

And the meaning is quite important. Only more and more complete text together can tell whether it is scripture, inscription or something, whether it is a recording, holding or spell, and what nature this fragment comes from.

“Did you bring the rest of your debris?” Edwin looks up and asks, "I need to know the types of fragments before I can give the valuation. ”

Bashir hesitated, and Paul-Smith said, “Take it all out. Different things have different values. ”

“Mr. Edwin, you'd better explain your point.” Basher said, waving her hand to get Ira out of her backpack, staring at Edwin's old face, taking out the remaining three pieces and putting them on the table.

“Easy!” Seeing each other's actions is rude, Edwin cannot help but shout, and his heart has tended to believe that these are genuine and that the existence of thousands of relics is fragile.

“Mr. Edwin, you seem very pleased with our goods.” Eldin sees each other tight.

Ira and Basher laughed willingly when they heard the story, and Edwin had not responded and had begun to try to splice the four pieces.

These are indeed fragments of the same pottery, shaped like a bowl, engraved on the top of the bowl in the middle of the container, all so clear that the years cannot erode their lines.

Edwin frowned and looked at the Holy Scripture text on the four fragments. I don't know why. The more I looked, the more my heart felt an unspeakable tumble...

Ancient Egyptian languages are devoid of punctuation, but sometimes different expressions are written by branches, with different sizes.

Four pieces, four sentences spelled out.

From left to right, first sentence

second sentence

third sentence

Fourth sentence [𓁠𓇽𓃛𓀜]

“The first sentence, the King's rebel, the Sun God's rebel. ”

Edwin thought, whispering to the other side, “Second sentence, stone + pus - that is, disease… stone disease, pus caused by stone, disease caused by stone, which could be the cause of death… third sentence, bird trap + anatomical pus - represents medicine + bird + a group of birds + death, a trap for birds? Killing birds with medicine... Fourth sentence, Ram's head god + new world + new life + power..."

Stone sickness again, bird killer, Bashir listens straight to his head, “What does that mean? ”

Forget about the three traffickers, Paul-Smith doesn't understand either. In fact, modern people have limited access to ancient Egyptian languages. Not only do they still don't understand a lot of words, but many of the words that they want to express in tandem are based on speculation.

“Stone sickness...” Edwin looks at these pieces and is not sure if this is the cause of the rebel's death? Or the insurgency of the rebels?

Who engraved this inscription? By the king's men? Or by the rebels?

This directly determines the meaning of the statement, especially the third sentence, the fourth sentence...

“Seems to be in that era.” The more confused my mind, "Edwin said," there was a rebellion against the kingdom of the Sun God, related to a disease… Mr. Basher, I want all these pieces, what more do you have? ”

“Ha ha, that would be a lot more, but much more expensive than these pieces.” Bishop said, and Ella said, “You don't have to buy it. ”

As Edwin spoke, he also looked at the ancient text on the four pieces:

[𓀶𓀏𓇳𓀏𓊌𓐎𓌦𓐏𓅘𓅀𓏱𓁠𓇽𓃛𓀜]