Chapter 66 Ancient Kingdom Fugue

Dear Xiaowen: Egypt is an African country.But she stretched out an arm to Asia, and that arm was Sinai.There is a 100-mile-long Suez Canal (the Suez Canal) in the armpit.The Suez Canal shortened the distance from Britain to India by 6000 miles. It took ten years to dig the Suez Canal, and it is now 106 years old.It was dug by the French diplomat De Lesseps at the age of sixty-four.He was addicted to digging canals, and then went to dig the Panama Canal (the Panama Canal). As a result, the company closed down and almost went to jail, because he was eighty-four years old, so he was spared. Emperor Sui Yang of China also liked to dig canals, but he also fell into bad luck.Probably the land god doesn't like people digging him.

Egyptian cotton is the most famous. The capital of Egypt is Cairo, which has a history of 1335 years (AD 640). Cairo bazaars are very famous, bazaar is a small oriental craft shop (1. In the East, an exchange, market place, or assemblage of shops, market, shopping mall (Oriental). 2. A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair, department store. Also, a fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc. commonly for a charitable object, also refers to the market where rare toys are sold for charity). Egypt's most famous is the thirty-five pyramids (pyramid). The pyramid is the size of ten football fields.

The pyramid is the tomb of the king of Egypt (called Pharaoh in Egypt), and there are gold and silver treasures in it, so they are always stolen.So later Egyptian kings did not build pyramids. It took 400,000 people to build the pyramid for 20 years.In ancient times, people were really patient about repairing tombs. Xiaowen, do you remember the big tomb in India, Taj Mahal, that Dad told you about?It took more than 20 years to build the grave. The Sphinx in front of the pyramid is called Sphinx (the "Strangler").The most famous Sphinx story is a riddle story. The riddle is: what has four legs and two legs and three legs?

Later Oedipus guessed it. (SPHINX, in Greek mythology, a winged monster with the body of a lion and the head and breast of a woman. According to the myth, the Sphinx destroyed the passersby from the Greek city of Thebes when they failed to guess her riddle:" What is four-footed in the morning, two-footed at noon, three-footed in the evening?" Oedipus solved the riddle by replying: "Man, who in childhood creeps on hands and knees, in manhood walks erect, and in old age uses a staff.” The Sphinx, hearing this, threw herself from a rock and perished, and Oedipus thus became the liberator of Thebes and was made its king.)

After the pharaohs didn't use the pyramids, they began to dig graves underground.In 1922, archaeologist Howard Carter (an English archaeologist, specialized in excavating ancient Egyptian tombs) dug the tomb of the little pharaoh Tutankhamen—all the treasures from 3,300 years ago were unearthed.The little pharaoh died at the age of eighteen and was placed in a golden coffin covered with a full-length statue of the little pharaoh made of gold.There are four rooms in the tomb, which were dug in the center, and there are so many treasures in it. (Good gems fill the eyes, a vast array of beautiful and fine things.) The name of the little pharaoh Tutankhamen became famous all over the world after 3300 years. Will Rogers (the American cowboy philosopher that Dad talked to you about, Indian ancestors) even used the noun (noun) of Tutankhamen as a verb (verb).He said:

If the father of our country, George Washington, was Tutankhamen tomorrow, and, after being aroused from his tomb, was told that the American people today spend two billion dollars yearly on bathing material, he would say, “What gotem so dirty?” Egypt has the longest river in the world, the Nile River. In order to use the Nile River, Egypt has built a large reservoir with a billion dollars since 1960, called the Aswan Reservoir (The Aswan High Dam) ( Taiwan's Shimen Reservoir is only 100 million U.S. dollars), with the Aswan Reservoir, the water of the Nile River will be stored.But in this way, many ancient monuments in Egypt will be flooded, especially the famous 4,000-year-old temple of Abu Simbel (Abu Simbel).So rescue was carried out, and 50 countries around the world donated 17 million U.S. dollars to save it, and the way to save it was to move upwards.Thus, the temple, which had been there for four thousand years, was sawn into pieces and moved with a crane.

There are many famous halls in this big temple, with unique designs.Twice a year, the sun shines on the face of the pharaoh's stone statue.The four large stone statues outside the temple are also the same pharaoh. This pharaoh is called Ramesses II (Ramses II, Ramesses II). He reigned in the 13th century BC (reigned 1290-1224 BC). He made himself The quadruplets guard the gate of their own temple. His old guy doesn't believe in anyone but himself.Four thousand years ago, he made the ancients so busy; four thousand years later, he made the modern people so busy. He really has a way, he really does it.

dad September 20, 1975