[The priests will offer sacrifices to you, and the priests will spread their arms to you with the offerings from the earth, just as they offer all the water left in the bowl of water to Imhotep.]

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

stones, diseases, medicine, birds...

Edwin's face changed, and the deep head-up lines became more and more like a ravine, "You mean, you mean... Imhotep?"

"Yes, George, that's what I think." Fordner paused before pronounced the name: "Imhotep."

imhotep, one of the only two civilians in Egyptian civilization who were deified after death, the other was Amenhotep, the son of Hap.

In the style of writing the holy script, Imhotep's name is:??????:?*?

It means, the peacemaker.

"Look, Imhotep has a bird, an owl, which is the symbol of his name." Fortner said, although he was also very thoughtful, and didn't know how to organize it. "Imhotep is the god of medicine in ancient Egypt. Imhotep is also a great architect. He presided over the construction of the Zakara trapezoidal pyramid - this is the first stone building in human history. He is the inventor of stone buildings."

"Herry, you really reminded me, Imhotep..." Edwin murmured, his eyes a little straight when he looked at the Holy Book text again.

"There is another point that Imhotep first created to hollow out the internal organs of the deceased and then make them into mummies. I don't know if it makes sense to think this way, but without internal organs, the flesh will rot. In the end, Imhotep's understanding of eternity and eternal life cannot be separated from the likes of a stone."

Fortner spoke some of his thoughts, and in his heart, some archaeological knowledge about Imhotep was constantly surging.

Imhotep was the prime minister of the pharaoh Dossel of the Third Dynasty of Egypt in the 27th century BC.

According to legend, Dowsel once dreamed that he was walking on a ladder extending to the sky. After waking up, he asked Imhotep to build a tomb that could lead to the sky. Before that, Egyptian civilization did not have the stair pyramids that modern people are familiar with, and the tomb of the Pharaoh was just a huge pile of rectangular mud bricks.

Imhotep designed and presided over the construction of the first truly Egyptian pyramid, namely the Pyramid of Dossel. Although this pyramid, which is only 62.5 meters high, looks simple compared to the later giants such as the Khufu Pyramid, it is indeed the beginning of the pyramid and the beginning of stone construction.

This was Imhotep's great performance in architecture, but later Egyptians respected him in medicine.

He established the first medical school in history, two thousand years earlier than Hippocrates, the father of medicine of Greek civilization.

There is no direct archaeological evidence in modern times that Imhotep is a doctor or how to save people. However, over thousands of years of Egyptian civilization, he was gradually worshipped and deified. After his death, he was a tombstone inscription from Amonhotep III in the New Kingdom period more than 1,300 years after his death. This is the first written evidence that modern people directly mention Imhotep. He is already a god. More than 2,200 years after his death, in the 30th dynasty of Egypt, a large number of related papyrus and statues proved this person and made it clear that he had the ability to medicine and heal.

The center of worship for Imhotep is in Memphis, very, very far away from here, but people have never found the grave of Imhotep.

"Imhotep...and what? Heri, wouldn't you think this is the water bowl of Imhotep's tomb? Or the water bowl used to worship Imhotep?"

Edwin's excitement arises from the suspected clue he just obtained was immediately replaced by more messy and greater anxiety.

Before Fortner could say anything, he said in a mess: "It is unlikely that Paul has investigated those sellers, and they are just a few small characters. They have no ability to smuggle cultural relics from Memphis and from the pyramid of Zocel. They should have found a small grave near the city. And, you see, these birds are not owls, these birds look like... I don't know what to say, but they are not owls..."

"George, the owls are Imhotep, but these birds can be followers of Imhotep, or are also doctors."

"Then how do you explain the geography issue? How do you explain this sentence?"

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

"Calm down, calm down!" Fortner called, "George, listen to me."

He wanted to discuss this matter and really advised this old friend to have a good rest and take some sleep pills to have a nap, otherwise this would not work.

But when he looked at the four pottery fragments himself, he felt the impact of the "weird attraction" again...

"I didn't say that this was Imhotep's funeral, nor did Imhotep's worshipper, but a bit like his enemy - the rebel. Imhotep was the prime minister of the Pharaoh and the high priest of the Sun God. This was worthy of the first holy text."

Edwin was impatient again, and the blood in his eyes was almost ferocious, "The key is the second sentence! Heri, the second sentence affects the meaning of the front and back, stones and diseases, so it is Imhotep? If you want to express this person, why not just hit the owl?"

"My thought, stone means pyramids!" Fortner had to yell, "the first stone pyramid."

Edwin stopped frowning, and Fortner's finger touched the fragmented stone character as if he could return to that ancient era.

"Old friend, we modern people have never figured out how the ancient Egyptians built pyramids? How to do so many huge stones, with the technological level and construction level at that time? Even the Pyramid of Zocel must have been built very hard, requiring a lot of manpower and materials for a long time. You also know that if Zocel had not ruled Egypt for decades, the first stone pyramid would not have been successfully established. Such a grand project could have dragged down a kingdom. There are too many such examples in the history of human civilization. Think about it, what attitude would the Egyptian civilians and even the ruling class at that time have had towards this project? Some people support it, some people oppose it."

Edwin's expression changed again, and he felt a little awakening, "The rebels... the great disaster caused by stones..."

"In the eyes of some rebels, isn't this project a stone + disease? It will indeed kill many people. Imhotep is the god of medicine, but in the eyes of the rebels, he is the bringer of the disease. He wants to kill Imhotep and other 'birds' and establish a new world ruled by the god Amon."

Fortner said, breathing a sigh of relief, "This is my idea. There might have been an uprising that ended up failing, and the rebels were executed and expelled."

"Is that... old friend, you make sense..." Edwin murmured, "But I always feel that something is wrong, a little bit unreasonable... I feel that it is not clean and unjust... Heri, when you look at this holy book, don't you... even a little bit, inexplicable..."
Chapter completed!