In the north of New Oxford Street in London, England, there is a Russell Square named after the Duke and Earl of Bedford. In the center of the square, there is a museum with a long history-"British Museum". British Museum, Tashi Museum in Elmy, Louvre Museum in France and Metropolitan Museum in the United States are called "Four World Museums". Founded in 1753, it has a history of nearly 300 years. It is the oldest and most magnificent museum in the world.
1753, great collector Hans? After the death of Sir Si Long, according to his will, descendants donated 765,438+0,000 pieces of his collection to the country, and then the British government organized and opened the British Museum. Today, there are as many as 8 million pieces in the British Museum. According to the staff in the museum, due to limited space, as many as 99% of the collections cannot be exhibited in public. There are countless rare treasures from all over the world, such as the Rosetta Stone in Egypt, the Parthenon marble sculpture in Athens, Franks jewelry boxes and Portland vases.
In 20 19, the British Museum took out a batch of cultural relics from the warehouse. Among them, there is a strange thing. It is a neatly written slate, but the handwriting is not English, but Greek. According to experts, this slate is a cultural relic acquired in Alexandria, Egypt. After the evaluation of several expert groups, it was recognized as priceless for three reasons.
First of all, with the precipitation of history, it is no longer an ordinary slate, but an alternative cultural relic. Experts confirmed that this is a cultural relic that existed about 2000 years ago through carbon 14 dating technology. Its identity should be a children's literacy Committee. Functionally, this stone tablet is not only a cultural relic 2,000 years ago, but also displayed to our descendants. At the same time, the spiritual outlook of ancient Egyptian life 2000 years ago was discovered. The unique way of education in ancient Egypt, the ancient Egyptians 2000 years ago, have been using a highly "modern" blackboard teaching, which is really amazing!
The second reason lies in the language of this slate. Although it is a cultural relic unearthed in ancient Egypt, the language on it is Greek. This detail shows us the situation of ancient Egypt 2000 years ago. In the 4th century BC, Macedonia, the ancient Greek city-state, rose rapidly, unified the Greek cities and established the Alexandria dynasty. In 332 BC, King Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded Egypt, overthrew the rule of the Persian dynasty, incorporated Egypt into the territory of the Alexander Empire, and established a new city-Alexandria on the banks of the Nile, completely ending the Pharaoh era of ancient Egypt.
In 323 BC, Alexander the Great died suddenly, and his Ptolemy took over a large area of territory, including Egypt, and established the Ptolemy Dynasty with Alexandria as its capital. Since then, ancient Egypt has entered a period of "Hellenization". Greek language, writing, architecture, religion and painting were introduced into Egypt, which gradually changed the cultural characteristics of ancient Egypt and made it have a strong Greek cultural color. Under the influence of Greek culture, ancient Egyptian culture gradually lost its original characteristics, and Greek became the official language. It is precisely because of this background that the writing on this slate is Greek that it is normal.
The last reason why this slate can become a treasure is that it can reveal more information. First of all, the owner of this slate should be a little boy from a famous family, because from the content format of the slate, it is a child who is copying a paragraph of text to achieve the effect of practicing calligraphy and memorizing. Children with such conditions to study in ancient Egypt must be rich aristocratic families. In addition, in ancient Egypt, men were superior to women, and girls could not study.
The content on the slate is equally interesting. Translated into Chinese, it means "Don't have bad friends, but make more wise friends." In fact, this teaching coincides with the old oriental proverb "People near Zhu Zhechi and Mexico are black"! This shows the importance of making friends. Besides, this sentence is a very reasonable proverb in modern society.
Not all valuable cultural relics are gold, silver and jewels. Sometimes, some seemingly insignificant things also contain rich information, and the history displayed by these information is also a rare treasure. After all, the process of exploring history is largely realized through these historical relics.