In order to obtain the exact information of the dagger, Zhang Nan asked the Yuntong Company to help him find several experts who were familiar with ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in advance, and asked to be able to keep it secret. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Amex is also awesome, and they have such experts among their customers, even including that William Breen.

It's easy to do things with money, and you can find people around New York, so as not to send faxes.

The micro-photography technique was used to shoot several parts of the text engraved on the dagger, and then handed it over to the three experts who contacted it in sections, but the final conclusion made Zhang Nan a little crying and laughing: each expert took a few minutes to interpret the meaning, but the text content could not be connected at all!

A hammer in the east and a hammer in the west, incomprehensible.

Hieroglyphs are not modern Chinese, and Chinese can spell out a complete sentence by arranging words one by one, and experts tell him that Egyptian hieroglyphs sometimes have many words in one piece to understand.

When he was in the Sultan, Zhang Nan had a hunch that this dagger was not an item of the Kush Kingdom, but was most likely their trophy. And this will be on a small piece of paper The conclusion has come out, it is something from ancient Egypt - it is impossible to answer it in pieces, and in the end there is no way, so after one of the experts who is said to have the strictest mouth signed a confidentiality agreement again, Zhang Nan let the other party read the full text twice.

There are three small pieces of paper, with a line of "ghost drawings" on the top and modern text content on the bottom.

Those hieroglyphs on the handle of the dagger are an ibis representing the god Thoth, who in ancient Egypt was the god of wisdom and the moon, and Heliopolis (also known as the "City of the Sun"), one of the most important sacred sites in ancient Egypt. The presiding deity of the place, the inventor of writing, and the instrument of the gods, is depicted in the Book of the Dead as a standing judge. It appears as a man wearing a full moon disc and a crescent moon crown, a crested ibis, or a baboon.

Now people have given this word a pronunciation - "Tut";

A piece of wood, now pronounced "Mo", a folded cloth pronounced "Si", a scarab beetle, and three small vertical sticks side by side that resemble a pipa-shaped thing that actually represents the heart and trachea.

If we separate these hieroglyphs, we can only conclude that this passage is related to the god Thoth and the sun god, because the scarab beetle seems to represent the sun god.

It's confusing to be separated, but if you put all the words together, it represents a person's name, the royal title of a pharaoh who is very famous in ancient Egyptian history: Thutmose III.

Here, Nicole flipped a table of the lineage of ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the pages of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

"Thutmose III, pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Among the 31 dynasties of ancient Egypt, the 18th dynasty was the one with the longest duration, the largest territory, and the most powerful state.

The book says that this Thutmose III was the master of this dynasty, born about 1514 BC and died around 1425 BC, and lived a long life, and was the most famous martial pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.

It is generally believed that it was Thutmose III who completed the qualitative transformation of ancient Egypt from a regional kingdom to a great intercontinental empire, and is also considered one of the greatest pharaohs of ancient Egypt, and is now known as the 'Napoleon of the ancient world'.

By the way, that Tutankhamun should be his great-great-grandson. ”

Listening to Nicole, this golden dagger with a meteoric blade is the object of Thutmose III?

Could it have been engraved by a later pharaoh?

Unlikely, Pharaoh who hardly did so.

And the other two passages on the blade are the son of the sun god, the great god, and the conqueror of Kadesh.

Kadesh, a kingdom in southern Syria, was destroyed shortly after the fall of Thutmose III, a pharaoh who was also quite sad in his youth, only came to power at the age of 32 because he had an extremely powerful mother-in-law.

Nicole had already learned everything about the inscription from the experts, which was necessary to determine the origin of the dagger, otherwise it would be difficult to understand without a historical background.

Thutmose III's father, Pharaoh Thutmose II, was short-lived and did not leave much success, but left behind a capable and powerful wife - Hatshepsut.

Hatshepsut not only held the government for 22 years, but also officially wore the crown, making her the first female emperor in the world.

Sadly, Thutmose III, the son of his father's concubine Isis, grew up in the shadow of Hatshepsut.

In 1482 B.C., the pharaoh died suddenly, and the 32-year-old Thutmose was finally able to take power, just as the kingdom of Qadish in southern Syria was trying to form an anti-Egyptian alliance.

After stabilizing the situation in the country, Thutmose immediately launched his first battle of power, marching into Syria and Palestine, conquering the kingdom of Kadesh and subjecting the neighboring city-states to Egyptian rule.

With this analysis, some things become clear.

Zhang Nan played with the golden meteorite steel dagger in his hand and said, "This may be specially made by that pharaoh to commemorate the conquest of Syria, it is so well preserved, it should be about 150 years earlier than Tutankhamun's dagger." ”

It has been analyzed in the laboratory, and the nickel content of the blade has reached 8%, so it is no wonder that it can be preserved.

Nicole would sit in the hardwood chair next to her, and lately she had begun to hate leather sofas, and she still felt comfortable with the stiff back. Hearing Zhang Nan's words, he said: "Such a well-preserved meteorite steel weapon must be the first in the world, but how it got to the royal tomb of the Sultan Pyramid is a mystery." ”

Zhang Na tilted her head, "Don't bother with brain cells, there are few tombs of the pharaohs that have not been stolen, maybe it has entered the tombs of the pharaohs a few times as burial goods." ”

"But...... You say it was found behind a wooden door, and what king would use the weapon of his feuding ancestors as a watchdog?"

As soon as he heard this, Zhang Nan couldn't cry or laugh: "Don't say it so ugly, maybe it's possible that Seti has used this dagger as a portable weapon for a long time, maybe it's custom, and maybe even there may be political enemies who are doing things in the final stage of closing the mausoleum, and it's not necessarily that the feng shui of the Seti family is broken."

Who knows, you can't ask the mummy, can you?"

Nicole is not interested in dried corpses, and that's it.

Needless to say, in the time of the Setes, it was not difficult for a Kush king to obtain an iron weapon, because the Azovs at that time and the Hittites before him had mastered the technology of iron smelting for hundreds of years and had already begun to use iron weapons.

But even so, a meteorite iron "stainless steel" dagger, which was already an antique at the time, should have been priceless.

And from ancient Egypt, if it was the favorite thing of the King of Setes during his lifetime, it was likely to be used as a burial object, and it could even be a little show-off.