Plague Doctor

[The priests will offer you the sacrifice, and the priests will open their arms to you with the sacrifice of the earth, just as they will dedicate all the water left in the bowl to Imhotep.

- A tombstone inscription from the Amonhotep III period (1391-1353 BC)

Stones, diseases, medicine, birds...

Edwin's face was volatile, and the deeper his head creased like a ditch, "Are you saying... Imhotep? ”

“Yes, George, that's what I thought.” Fort Natton just read the name: “Imhotep. ”

Imhotep, one of the only two post-mortem deified civilians in Egyptian civilization, and the other is Amonhotep, Harp's son.

In scripture, Imhotep's name is: 𓇍 𓅓 𓊵: 𓏏 * 𓊪

Meaning, peacemakers.

“Look, Imhotep's name has a bird —— an owl, which is the sign of his name.” Fortner said, "I don't know how to sort this out, even though I'm a thoughtful person," Imhotep is the ancient Egyptian god of medicine, and Imhotep is a great architect, presiding over the construction of the Sakara trapezoidal pyramid -- the first stone building in human history, he's the inventor of stone buildings. ”

“Hurley, you really reminded me, Imhotep...” Edwin muttered, looking straight at the holy book.

“One more thing, Imhotep was the first to emptie the victim's guts and make it a mummy. I don't know if that makes sense, but without the guts, the flesh will rot, and in the end there will be only a few bones left. Imhotep's understanding of eternity and immortality is inseparable, like a stone. ”

Fortner tells some of his thoughts, and in his heart, some archaeological knowledge about Imhotep is constantly pouring.

Imhotep, Prime Minister of Pharaoh Zossel of the third dynasty of ancient Egypt in the 27th century BC.

According to legend, Zossel dreamed of walking on a ladder stretching out into the sky and woke up asking Imhotep to build a grave that would lead to heaven. Until then, Egyptian civilization did not have a staircase pyramid of the kind known to modern people, and the mausoleum of Pharaoh was just a huge pile of rectangular mud bricks.

Imhotep designed and presided over the construction of the first truly Egyptian pyramid, the Zosel pyramid - although this pyramid, which was only 62.5 metres tall compared to the vast giants of the later Hoof pyramids, was indeed the beginning of the pyramid, the beginning of the stone building.

This is a great performance of Imhotep in architecture, and future generations of Egyptians admire him in medicine.

He founded the first medical school in history, 2,000 years earlier than the medical father of Greek civilization, Hippocratic.

There is no direct archaeological evidence yet that Imhotep is a doctor, or how to see a medical savior, but over the millennia of Egyptian civilization he was gradually worshipped, deified, and by more than one thousand and three hundred years after his death, a tombstone inscription from the Amonghotep III period of the new kingdom - the first literary evidence of a direct reference to Imhotep that the modern man came out of the earth, he was already a god. More than 2200 years after his death, in the 30th dynasty of Egypt, a great deal of relevant sawdust paper, statues proved the man and made it clear that he had medical and therapeutic abilities.

The center of worship for Imhotep is in Memphis, very, very far from here, but the world has never been able to locate Imhotep's grave.

“Imhotep... then what? Hurley, you don't think this is the water bowl of Imhotep's grave, do you? Or a bowl of water for Imhotep? ”

Edwin's excitement at just getting a little bit of a suspicious clue was immediately replaced by more chaos, more agitation.

Instead of what Fortner said, he said, “It's unlikely that Paul investigated the sellers, it was just a few small characters, and they didn't have the ability to smuggle artifacts from Memphis, from inside the Zosel pyramid, and they should have found a little grave near the city. And, look, these birds, they're not owls, they look like... I don't know what to say, but they're not owls...”

“George, owls are Imhotep, but these birds can be followers of Imhotep, or doctors as well. ”

“How do you explain geography? How do you explain that? ”

Fortner saw this old friend almost out of control, not at all like the old doctor in the abyss of knowledge he knew.

“Calm down, calm down!” Fortner screamed, "George, listen to me slowly. ”

He wants to discuss this, he really needs to persuade this old friend to get some rest, take some sleeping pills, or else he can't go on like this.

It's just that when he went to look at the four pieces of pottery himself, he felt the “weird attraction” shock again...

“I did not say that it was a funeral for Imhotep, nor did I look like an admirer of Imhotep, but a bit like his enemy - the rebels. Imhotep is the prime minister of Pharaoh and the high priest of the Sun God. This matches the first Holy Book. ”

Edwin sounded impatient again, and the blood filament in his eyes was almost stubborn, "The key is the second sentence! Hurley, the second sentence only affects front and rear meaning, stone and disease, so it's Imhotep? If you want to express this man, why not just hit the owl? ”

“My thoughts, stone means pyramid!” Fortner had to be a little louder, “the first stone pyramid. ”

Edwin frowned and Fortner's fingers touched the stone character of the fragment as if it could go back to that ancient era.

“My old friend, we modern people have never figured out how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. So many giant stones, at the level of technology and architecture, what happened? Even the Pyramid of Left Sell must have been very difficult to build, requiring a lot of manpower, a lot of supplies, a lot of time. As you know, the first stone pyramid could not have been built successfully without the rule of Egypt for decades. Such grand projects can bring down a kingdom, and there are too many such examples in the history of human civilization. Imagine the attitude of the Egyptian civilian population, even the ruling class, towards this project. If there is support, there is opposition. ”

Edwin's face changed again, and he was a little awakened, “Rebels... the catastrophe caused by the stones...”

“Isn't this a stone + disease in the eyes of some rebels? It does kill a lot of people. Imhotep is the god of medicine, but in the eyes of the rebels, he is the one who brings disease, killing Imhotep and all the other ‘birds' to build a new world ruled by the gods of Amon. ”

Fortner whispered, “This is my point, there may have been an uprising, and eventually it failed, and the rebels were executed and deported. ”

“Really... old friend, you make sense...” Edwin mutters, "but I always feel, a little bit wrong, a little unreasonable... I feel it's unclean, unjust... Hurley, when you look at this line of Holy Scripture, don't you... even a little, unnamed...”

Edwin opened his bloody eyes to Fortner, "Fear? ”