[The king of Assyria heard of Taharqa, the king of Egypt, saying, "He has come out to fight with you." – Isaiah 37: 9]
According to the Old Testament, in the seventh century BC, the Assyrians prepared to attack Jerusalem to raze it to the ground and make it desolate. Taharqa, the pharaoh of Nubia and Egypt, gathered an army to the northern edge of his empire to defend Jerusalem from the Assyrians.
Taharqa sent someone to tell the king of Assyria that he was going to fight.
Taharqa was the first king of Kushan to conquer Egypt and establish the 25th Dynasty of Egypt.
The pharaoh's crown had two snakes, representing that he was the ruler of both Nubia and Egypt.
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The Nubian pyramids were numerous and widely distributed.
Because of Zhou Haorui's search records, the first joint team headed from Cairo to Shendi, where the pyramids of Meroë were located. This was a small town in northern Sudan, and about 45 kilometers southwest of Shendi was the ancient ruins of Meroë.
However, the joint team seemed to be a few steps too late. Deng Ximei and Xiao Xu were both there. They had a heavier and more chaotic feeling, but they found nothing.
Meroë was no longer the center of the incident, and perhaps it had never been.
This took them an entire day. At the same time, the global floods and petrification epidemics had gone out of control. Many areas had lost the ability to provide aid and could only watch as the collapsed cities were drowned in the flood and countless lives were lost. Many areas had also lost the ability to receive and diagnose patients. Before this, the number of patients diagnosed with petrification had exceeded ten million.
Ten million was not just a number that seemed large. There were ten million people and countless families.
The weight of these lives was greater than the pressure of the flood, but the frontline personnel could not let themselves stop and immerse themselves in grief. They could only rush to the next location.
Another small town in northern Sudan, Karima, and the ruins of the ancient city of Napata, another pyramid cluster, were northwest of Karima.
Karima was about 400 kilometers away from Shendi, which was further north. Before Meroë became the capital of the Kushan people, Napata used to be the capital of the 25th Dynasty and the center of worship for the Kushan people, Nubia Amon.
If the Little Ram Church's ritual center was not in Meroë, then it could only be in Napata.
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"The Little Ram Church likes to quote from the Bible. I don't know if it's just a metaphor or if it has some other deeper meaning.
However, there was a mainstream hypothesis in the academic world that the King of Ancient Egypt referred to Taharqa, the founder of the 25th Dynasty, the Pharaoh of Nubia, Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt. Because he sent troops to fight the Assyrian king Sinnahrib, the king of Assyria finally gave up the siege, and the Assyrians could no longer advance towards Jerusalem.
Ever since the Ten Plagues of Egypt, the Little Ram Church has been claiming to be Jewish and calling those of us who don't believe in the Little Ram God and the black goat as Egyptians. Therefore, I believe that the founder of this cult was most likely a Jew. But that wasn't all. Because gods could create children from stones, the Little Ram Disciples were spread all over the world. They were experts in the study of ancient Egyptology and Ancient Cushology. They were a group of mature and prudent elders.
These people had already taken the identity of the One God, the Eternal Lord, as a god that they believed in.
In that case, Taharqa, the king of Ethiopia who conquered Egypt, was an emissary of the Little Ram, like Moses. We are not just Egyptians, we are the so-called 'pagans', so we are also Assyrians, especially the Assyrians. Aren't we the frontline like the Assyrians who want to attack Jerusalem? And that unknown power … those crows … are also Assyrians?
The king of Ethiopia sent someone to tell the king of Assyria that he wants to fight with you.
And now, we have come to the pyramid mausoleum of Taharqa, the protector of Jerusalem, but we haven't found anything.
In fact, I'm not surprised at all, because archaeology is the same process. If you want to find a legendary site, you can't just go to one place and find it. Often, you have to run around for a long time, and in the end, you won't find anything valuable. The archaeologists of the Little Ram Disciples are the most familiar with this kind of thing, so they are also good at playing this game. Although we've found Gushi by following the clues, they won't be here so easily.
But they won't be here, because if the king of Ethiopia is really an emissary, they have no choice but to be here. Only here has that kind of connection power to drive the whole ritual. This is the place where the kings of Kushi return, and it is also the most suitable place for Nubia Amon to descend.
In the same space, 2,700 years ago, the people here called Amon's name. But the time wasn't right, and the name of the god was lost. They didn't succeed, but they left a special connection. The Little Ram Disciples need that kind of power.
This must be the place where the royal cemetery of Napata was established by Taharqa.
Everything has a beginning and an end. If it wasn't the first pyramid here, the mausoleum of Taharqa, then it would most likely be the last pyramid here, the mausoleum of Nastassen.
When Nastassen reigned, it was already the fourth century BC. At that time, Egypt and Kushi had long been divided, and the Kingdom of Kushi was on the decline. After Nastassen, the capital would be moved to Meroe. This also meant that the most powerful period of the Kingdom of Kushi was coming to an end.
Nastassen is a full stop, a watershed, an end.
Now, the Little Ram Disciples want to start anew, to make their god descend, starting from the end point. This is a kind of continuation.
Based on these reasons, I deduced that the place we should really look for is the pyramid of Nastassen.
In addition, due to the rising underground water level in the Nubian region, many of the tombs under the pyramids were submerged. Nastassen's tomb was one of them. The three tombs under the pyramid had long been submerged.
For many years, no archaeological team had tried underwater archaeology in Sudan. They didn't have the technology, and there were too many other sites in the Nubian region that could be studied. It was enough to keep them busy, so they didn't touch it. However, this was only on the surface. I didn't know if any grave robbers had touched it. On the surface, in 2018, an Egyptologist and underwater archaeologist, Christman, from the University of Arizona, finally led a team to explore Nastassen's tomb.
They dug a staircase to the underground. To prevent the rock from collapsing and trapping underwater people, they reinforced the narrow tomb with a steel chute. After doing this, they explored the three tombs and went to the innermost third tomb to see the sarcophagus of Nastassen.
They believed that the underground water stopped the grave robbers. The tomb hadn't been destroyed by humans, but it was also because of the underground water that many of the cultural relics inside were dissolved. They brought out some cultural relics, but they were tattered.
I suspected that Christman's team was a member of the Little Ram Cult because a year ago, Christman died in a strange car accident. Who knew if he was really dead? Professor Liu Jiecheng and Professor Zhang Zhang also died that year. Also, several other members of the team had disappeared before the disaster. It couldn't be such a coincidence. Among the things they unearthed, there must be something the Little Ram Cult was looking for. In addition, only they had been to the three underground tombs. No one else knew what they had set up inside. Because their cameras could be faked.
That place was undoubtedly very dangerous. Even if there were no abnormal forces, it was already dangerous.
No one knew what the environment underwater was like. Would it collapse? Would there be any strange things?
However, in the end, we will definitely have to send a suicide squad to explore the place because we can't blow it up as soon as we get there. That may cause damage to the ritual, but it may also lead to other consequences. Sacrificing a few lives on the frontlines is acceptable for the overall situation.
That's my opinion. "
The scorching sun shone on this group of tombs, and the low and broken Pyramid of Kush stood on the desert.
Xiao Xu's young face was expressionless, and he wasn't even out of breath. However, this was probably the longest and longest speech he had ever made in his life.
Lou Xiaoning looked at the boy and was stunned for a few seconds. Her brain still needed time to digest all the information. "I don't remember you being an archaeologist."
"No, I'm not." Xiao Xu said, "I'm good at mathematics. Archaeology is just my part-time research."
The group looked at each other. Feng Peiqian had only just learned that Phecda had such an impressive student. She said, "Speaking of archaeology, of course, Captain Yu is still the best … But Xiao Xu, you're not bad yourself."
"Xiao Xu has a point." Deng Ximei nodded in agreement.
Hubbard Scott from FBM confirmed Xiao Xu's information. Christman's team was indeed listed as a suspect.
"Then let's go!" Lou Xiaoning waved her hand and glanced at the Pyramid of Taharqa. "What are we waiting for? Let's go to Nastassen's tomb."
She felt like her IQ was low. Since when did this boy come up with all this information? They were supposed to work together. From Cairo to Meroy, they had been together the whole time. No one had gotten more information than the others, so how did Xiao Xu …
Now that she thought about it, Xiao Xu did use his laptop to look up some information from FBM.
Immediately, the first team rushed to the Pyramid of Nastassen that was not far away.
Since many of the tombs here were submerged, the logistics department had prepared underwater archaeology equipment. They also had the most advanced underwater robots and underwater guns.
However, they couldn't drain the underground water. The Nile River flowed next to the town of Kerima. The town was built next to the riverbank, and it had a population of 14,000. These people had been evacuated and detained. No one knew if there were any Little Ram believers among them.
Due to the existence of the Nile River, this seemingly illogical fact was that the bottom of the pyramids in the desert was filled with water.
Therefore, the underground water in Nastassen's mausoleum could not be drained. Even if a portion of it was to be drained, it would take too long for the frontlines to wait. The water of the Nile River had already begun to flow rapidly, as if it was the eve of a storm.
When the joint team arrived at their destination, they looked at the huge pile of rubble and the staircase dug by Chrisman's expedition team that led to the tomb below the pyramid. At the end of the staircase, there was a muddy underground water. The surface of the water was calm and still.
However, there was no need for Deng Ximei and Xiao Xu, who had super high spirituality, to make a judgment. Anyone with rich frontline experience could tell that something was wrong.
There seemed to be a dark color flowing on the surface of the underground water.
The special operators of the joint team, Li Zhenjing, Zhang Jingjing, and the others also frowned.
"Vice-captain Li, you're in charge of reporting to Tong Ye and conducting routine tests on underwater robots."
Lou Xiaoning retracted her gaze from the entrance of the tunnel that was turning darker and darker. She looked around and said, "Prepare the suicide team for the expedition. Regardless of everyone's wishes, the space inside is limited. A team of about 12 people will do. "
The bottom of the Pyramid of Nast was about 930 square meters. Although it wasn't big compared to the Egyptian pyramids, it was still considered spacious. However, because a part of it had collapsed, there were also rocks and silt, so the terrain inside was cramped and complicated.
There was also a fatal flaw. The information they had on the underwater terrain was discovered by Christman's team. What if that wasn't the case?
Therefore, this team was the suicide team of the suicide team. They might not die fighting on the frontline, but once they went down, they had to be prepared to die.
"Captain Lou, let me go." Suddenly, a young voice came out. It was Chen Jiahwa, who stood up excitedly.
His face was red from excitement. He knew about Gu Jun's grave being desecrated by the enemy. "I want to say something, but if I'm wrong, then I'll have to apologize. There are too many uncertainties in this expedition, so Captain Lou shouldn't be the one to go. You're all capable people, and you have more important roles to play. A general is different from a death warrior. Someone like me should be the one to lead the way. If it's just a trap, then I'll be the only one who dies. "
Everyone's expression changed. Uncle Dan panicked. "Young man …"
Lin Cheng, who was not far away, did not say anything. He did not want to go down.
"What kind of person are you?" Lou Xiaoning scolded Chen Jiahwa. She was a bit agitated, but not because she was angry. "Death warrior … I'm the one who's going in first. Chen Jiahwa, if you have the guts, go call your family. Don't argue with the others, I'll pick a few. He's right, this team cannot send all their main force into the expedition. Xiao Xu! I'm going down now. You'll be the temporary captain. You're more suitable to be the captain than I am. "
Lou Xiaoning's voice was rough, but a heavy weight pressed down on everyone's heart. Xiao Xu said, "Okay."
At the same time, the normal experiments were carried out one by one.
As expected, before the underwater robot could complete the underwater staircase, the signal was cut off.
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