Chapter 155 154. One Hundred Thousand Club (King League+4)

The black professor pointed to the photo engraved with hieroglyphs, and said, "Do you know the inscriptions on the stele of gods? This is it. Although they were not the first modern people to discover these characters, they were the first to record them with cameras."

More than 5,000 years ago, hieroglyphic writing appeared in ancient Egypt, that is, Egyptian writing.

Today, it is believed that Egyptian script is the oldest script in the world, and it is also the longest-used script, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions on the joint plate of the armor of Pharaoh Namer, until now, still in some churches in Egypt in use.

This kind of writing was once considered to be "God's writing", so it is called "Shenbei Ti".

"The ancient Egyptians believed that their characters were created by Tut, the moon god, the god of calculation and learning, which is very similar to the Chinese legend of Cangjie's creation of characters." Professor Lewis said.

Li Du subconsciously continued: "Cangjie created characters, rained in the sky, and ghosts cried at night. Good luck cannot hide its secrets, and spirits cannot escape their shapes..."

Hans looked at him in astonishment, not knowing what he was talking about.

Professor Lewis smiled slightly and said, "Are you Chinese?"

Li Du nodded and said, "Yes, please continue. I couldn't help being moved when I heard you introduce Cangjie's creation of characters."

Professor Lewis said: "Actually, there is nothing to say, but these photos preserve some of the earliest pictographs, and I think it has scientific research value."

Hans tentatively asked: "Is there any information contained in these hieroglyphs? For example, information about Pharaoh's treasure?"

The black professor laughed and said: "Have you ever seen someone engrave treasure information on the wall of their house? The ancient Egyptians had mastered the method of making papyrus very early on. Even if there was any valuable information, they would hide it there. "

Hearing this, Li Du frowned. He thought of the papyrus he had collected.

However, the text on the papyrus is not hieroglyphs, otherwise he would have already associated it when he saw these photos.

Hans asked again: "These photos are quite famous, aren't they?"

Professor Lewis nodded and said: "Yes, he took a total of thousands of photos at that time, and more than half of them have been passed down to date."

"The value of these photos is the hieroglyphs on them?" Hans asked this question again.

The professor pondered for a while and said: "Not only the words, but in fact these photos show the changes in history, and also reflect a person's beliefs."

"You have to know that Marcim risked his life to go deep into the desert for a long time when the technology of photography was only born 20 years ago, which is admirable."

Li Du couldn't understand this kind of belief, he said: "This is courting death."

The professor smiled and said: "Yes, Marcim's friend Flaubert also said so in his essay. But through their efforts, people have a better understanding of this area that was bullied by barbaric culture and on the eve of industrialization at that time. Ok, I understand."

Hans clicked on the photo album and said, "So, how much are you willing to pay for them?"

The professor said: "As I said on the phone, I can accept all four thousand yuan a piece."

Hans shook his head and said, "Sorry, professor, the text on these photos has never been published to the public..."

When he said this, the two black youths grinned.

Professor Lewis waved and said, "Show Mr. Fox."

One of the youths opened a tablet and put it in front of them, with some photos on it.

Hans and Li Du swipe, and then saw familiar buildings and words.

The two compared the photos on the computer and found that they were exactly the same as some of the photos in their hands.

Professor Lewis said: "In fact, these photos used to belong to the Museum of our History College, but they were lost during an exhibition. My students usually see these photos, so he recognized them immediately after seeing them online. "

Hans blinked, and now the biggest reliance on bargaining is gone.

But he still insisted: "Even if you have read these texts, we have the original copies in our hands. Each copy is 6,000 yuan, and all of them can be sold to you."

Professor Lewis smiled and said, "Four thousand yuan is a very appropriate price. If we hadn't considered its relationship with our school, we wouldn't have offered such a high price!"

Hans looked at Li Du, who shrugged and said, "Return the property to its original owner, we have to respect knowledge."

"Okay, then four thousand yuan a piece. To be honest, I don't want to bargain with knowledge."

A young black man was disgusted by the conversation between the two: Nima respects knowledge and uses it to make money?

Professor Lewis said: "Give me the photo album. We need a total of forty photos. I have to identify them one by one."

Li Du snickered, and said in a low voice, "Your dream of profiteering is shattered."

The three quickly selected forty valuable photos from the album, and returned the remaining twenty-four landscape pictures to the two.

"I think these photos are also antiques. Are you interested?" Hans asked cheekily.

Professor Lewis waved his hand and said, "Sorry, we're not interested..."

"Twenty-four photos only cost two thousand!" Hans interrupted him, "I can assure you, these photos must be valuable!"

Professor Lewis shook his head hesitantly, and Hans immediately quoted again: "One thousand!"

The professor thought about it, and finally said: "Well, they may be useful to friends in the geography industry, after all, they describe the geography of Egypt half a century ago."

Li Du was stunned and said, "Do you know the information about these photos?"

A black student said with a smile: "They were lost together, and they were all from the Egyptian culture exhibition at that time."

I came to Tucson for a trip, and got 161,000 yuan. Although the journey was exhausting, I really gained a lot.

The two parties paid the money with one hand and delivered the goods with the other, and then parted happily.

Walking out of the coffee shop, Hans kicked the trash can and shouted, "Sheet! Shelt! Shelt! Thank God!"

Li Du laughed and said, "It's not the first time we've made this money, why are we so excited?"

Hans said: "You think I'm excited that we made money? No! I'm excited that we can join the 100,000 club!"

Li Du was taken aback for a moment, and then he realized that the profit of the new book was 39,000 yuan, plus the 161,000 yuan this time, it happens that one person can get 100,000 yuan.

In addition, their ivory was sold for 29,000 yuan before, and they had the experience of earning 100,000 yuan in single warehouse auctions twice. According to the regulations, they can join the 100,000 yuan club.

After trying to understand this, Li Du also became happy, and said, "No wonder you insisted on selling those photos for 1,000 yuan just now, but damn it, we are still short of 100 yuan?!"

The new books earned 39,000 yuan, but the second-hand books cost 100 yuan, so they earned 160,900 yuan.

Hans grinned and said, "But we still have a bunch of old books that haven't been disposed of, and they can't be sold for a hundred yuan? That's impossible, Mr. Fu can sell for five hundred yuan!"