My Cultural Tours(2)
cuneiform. But I knew I could not stay here for long, so I went inside the city state. I was amazed to see how beautiful the country was, with all the greenery on the roofs of the buildings, like a garden in the sky, and two rivers running through the city-state, which I immediately thought must be the Euphrates and the Tigris. There are also many magnificent temples along the rivers that appear to make the country extremely developed. Looking around Babylon, the towering, imposing walls, the palaces, the endless carriage roads, the orderly architecture of the houses... the frescoes and the graphics look mysterious and sacred, and the majestic stone lions guard the country. On one wall, a colorful map of the world was engraved, which should be the first world map in history: the middle continent was the kingdom of Babylon, from which the Euphrates River flowed; the periphery was all the ocean, and beyond the ocean were other countries. At that time, in the hearts of the citizens, Babylon was the center of the world. As I walked, I suddenly felt my head getting dizzy, then I couldn't control myself and collapsed on the road, unconscious. It felt like a few minutes later, I woke up. I found myself lying on a wide desert, and the first thing that caught my eye was a strange golden guy who looked like a lion and a human. But.... The more I look at it, the more familiar it looks." Isn't this a sphinx? "I jumped up in surprise, and it was guarding the more majestic building in the annex - the pyramids." How did I get to Egypt? "Not quite slowed down I patted off the sand on my body. No more clothes? Only white shorts made of linen, and women usually just wear a long linen skirt, it should be the heat. But I feel that in ancient Egypt there is a big gap in the dress of passers-by. Some people wore white robes made of fine linen that looked very soft, leather shoes and dazzling earrings made of gold, bracelets and necklaces and other high-class things, while another large group of people wore straw sandals or just do not wear shoes, dark skin, looks like a lifetime of hard work. The history book in my hand began to introduce the ancient