Bi Fang casually threw down a piece of ostrich meat, but the crocodile beside him did not move at all. It was not until Bi Fang left that everyone saw the West African crocodile slowly coming forward and swallowing it.

“In ancient Egypt, people even considered it a very honorable thing to be eaten by a crocodile. The crocodile god Sobek engraved on the Sonic Temple is believed to be based on the Nile crocodile.”

"However, myths always change with history. Since the 9th century AD, Nile crocodiles have been hunted by humans."

"The ancient Egyptians worshiped Sobek and the crocodile god associated with Pharaoh's fertility and protection, but later Egyptians would also hunt crocodiles, seeing them as a source of protection and power for the Pharaohs."

"This may be one of the proofs of social change."

Anyone who has studied archeology knows that people worship people. In ancient times, the most common sculptures excavated were women with wide bodies and fat bodies.

Because such a body type is more fertile and the early mortality rate was high, humans naturally worshiped them. However, after entering feudal society, human productivity developed rapidly, they armed themselves, the mortality rate dropped greatly, and the primitive worship of life and evil began to disappear.

The powerful image of the crocodile naturally changed from a symbol of fertility to a symbol of powerful power.

"The West African crocodile is more docile than the Nile crocodile and was chosen by the ancient Egyptians for their spiritual rituals and included mummification."

"Historically, West African crocodiles and Nile crocodiles inhabited Egypt in the lower reaches of the Nile River. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus was the first person to record and study crocodiles. Herodotus wrote that crocodiles were harvested as food in ancient Egypt.

Priestly Selective.”

"Priests are aware of the differences between the two species, with the West African crocodile being smaller, more docile, and easier to capture and tame."

"Herodotus also noted that some Egyptians kept crocodiles as pampered pets. At the Temple of Arsinoe at Sobek, a crocodile was kept in the temple, where it was fed, covered in jewels, and worshiped in the pond."

"When the crocodile dies, it is embalmed, mummified, placed in a sarcophagus, and then buried in a sacred tomb. Many mummified specimens and even crocodile eggs have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs."

"Recent DNA analysis has shown that crocodile mummies in caves in Thebes, Samoun Cave and those in Upper Egypt all belong to this species."

【Another day to gain knowledge】

[If you learn nothing, you will learn nothing]

Bi Fang rode a camel through most of the Blackwater River, and there were many camels. He also saw a large number of pottery pot fragments on the ground.

[What are these fragments? Are they garbage?]

[There are so many human traces here]

[There are murals and pottery pots. This place must have been prosperous before, right?]

Bi Fang was noncommittal.

"Around 1840, the religious Berbers and Bedouins had moved south from the north, replacing the original indigenous Tubu people and giving the oasis its current name."

"The entry of outsiders made business prosperous again. The first European to discover this place, Rolfs, entered Dutch along the Sahara trade route that was formed."

"However, the local residents at that time were very hostile to the foreign Europeans. Rolfs' expedition team was besieged by the locals and almost lost his life."

"In the end, the expedition team fled all the way north, all the way to Benghazi. Of course Chad couldn't go, but the discovery of Dutch was enough to raise his reputation to a higher level."

[No wonder circumcision is required to disguise it, hahaha]

【I feel so miserable】

[This is too dangerous, primitive people?]

【It’s not much different.】

The prosperity of commerce made this oasis a good place to store water, and the most useful tools, clay pots, naturally increased in number.

However, after 2000, all the slightly complete jars were either taken away or smashed into pieces. When Bi Fang visited this place in person, he only saw many scattered fragments, and none of them was complete.

[Ah, hasn’t the local government protected them? They are all antiques]

"This is a common misunderstanding. In fact, not all antiques are valuable. Only antiques with cultural and historical value can be sold at a good price. These pottery pots are not too old and have ordinary shapes. They are mainly practical."

"There is no historical value, cultural value, or artistic value. They are no different from scraps. They may be better than scraps, but they are not worth spending a lot of money to protect."
Chapter completed!