NEW YORK, BRONX (ORDO News) — At the beginning of 2023, an event occurred in the Chinese province of Gansu that radically changed the life of a 38-year-old Chinese language teacher. In three minutes, he was struck by lightning twice. After the first hit, he quickly came to his senses and continued on his way, but just a few minutes later the second hit happened, and it was already something incredible.
Initially, it seemed that the man was dead. He lay motionless on the asphalt until concerned passers-by called an ambulance. Fortunately, doctors responded quickly and took the victim to the hospital. There he spent about two weeks in a coma.
However, when he came to his senses, amazing changes began. The lightning strikes were severe: both the man’s brain and body were damaged. He lost part of his vision, became deaf in one ear and had memory problems. But besides this, something happened that at first seemed incomprehensible.
His wife was the first to notice this when she heard a strange accent in her husband’s speech. At first she thought it was due to brain damage, but the true cause was more mysterious. The man began to think in an unknown language, and then translate it into Chinese and pronounce it. It was something that no one could explain.
It later turned out that the man suddenly “mastered” the ancient Egyptian language, or rather, the dialect that the ancient Egyptians used to communicate in the 20-14th centuries BC. To test this phenomenon, the man was taken to the Shanghai Museum, where an exhibition dedicated to Ancient Egypt was held. And it turned out that he could easily read the inscriptions in the Middle Egyptian classical language.
The man-phenomenon claims that he has never seen this language, never studied it, and did not know a single letter or phrase in it. But after being struck twice by lightning, his brain seemed to have mastered ancient Egyptian on its own.
Now the Chinese teacher has been invited into China‘s archaeological community to demonstrate her gift. If his abilities are confirmed, he could make a significant contribution to the study of Ancient Egypt and perhaps even help Egyptologists.
However, this event also attracted the attention of psychophysiologists and neuropsychologists. How was the man’s brain able to acquire information about the Middle Egyptian classical language after such a strong exposure? Researchers cannot yet find the answer to this mysterious phenomenon. Perhaps additional research will help understand how the brain was able to reprogram itself in this way.
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