(1) A team of archaeologists in the Egyptian desert.
A team of six archaeologists found gold and other treasures in an underground Room in a remote part of the western desert .
(2) A band of four robbers :
A band of four robbers kept track of اقتفوا اثر the archaeologists expecting to find more gold and treasures in the underground rooms . They were highly technologically equipped with a machine that could transmit waves through
the Wall which a computer could change into a picture . They used this Ground Penetrating radar to find out what was behind rocks and walls underground .
(3) An army of deadly spiders underground:
The robbers were fiercely attacked by enormous spiders’ webs hanging from the ceiling underground . Spiders covered their faces and bodies. The spiders bit the intruders الدخلاء of their nests and the destroyers of peace and tranquility everywhere.
(4) Excitement and greed blinded the robbers :
The robbers didn’t care about the spiders and their painful bites . The sight of gold and treasures blinded them and even made them lose their consciousness . Their only concern was to get the gold regardless of بغض النظر عن any other dangers they might face .
(5) The robbers, fatal end :
As the robbers were driving fast in the desert, they felt pain all over their bodies . They began to sweat heavily . Their hands, arms, legs and face muscles began to make sudden violent movements . They could no longer drive the land cruisers . There was no more water and they were terribly thirsty . They couldn’t breathe easily and finally lay dead in the sand.
(6) A rescue إنقاذ helicopter:
At that time a helicopter appeared in the sky. It was going to a transmitter in the desert, which had a technical problem. When the pilot saw the vehicles of the robbers below, he flew the helicopter round in a circle. As he flew lower, he saw the four robbers dead in the sand. Then the helicopter landed. The pilot’s life was saved from the deadly spider as he left the car and went back to the helicopter to communicate with police on the radio.
(7) Ayman’s family:
Ayman’s family lived in a house in Hamddayya town , next to the police station. Ayman’s family consisted of parents, his younger brother Mohamed who was sixteen , Lamia who was twelve and Najat who was ten . Ayman’s favourite hobby was the internet . Sometimes he used the internet for his university studies and sometimes he used it for making friend in other countries.
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The deadly female spider :
While Ayman was having a conversation with his friends on the internet , the deadly Female spider came out from the police car box crawling across the garden . It stopped when it came to a corner of the walled garden . It was a black spider with two yellow lines on its back . Its body was as big as a small apple . The longest of its eight legs was as long as a pencil . Ayman could see two long fangs in its mouth.
(9) Searching for information on the internet :
Ayman used the world wide web to get information about the spider from different parts of the world . Dr Shereen Fakhry’s English translation of a very old Egyptian text about a town in ancient Egypt that was burned down to kill deadly spiders drew Ayman’s attention.
(10) Dr Shereen’s eagernessشغف to help Ayman :
Dr Shereen was keen on helping Ayman to discover the new species of spiders and prevent its venomous fatal dangers. Dr Shereen sent a very old picture of a spider that was near Bawiti to Ayman on the internet. She got that picture from an archaeologist in Egypt . She passed him also the information she got from a German Egyptologist about the use of Echinacea Negra as a medicine for the deadly bite of the black and yellow spider.
(11) Professor Malcolm Jones:
He was the head of the department where Susan Bennett was doing here researches at oxford University . He was a very famous archaeologist . He wrote many books on spiders and other arachnids. The moment Susan Bennett introduced him to her friend Shereen Fakhry, he was eager to know everything about the strange spiders found by Ayman in Egypt . Finding out that the picture of the spider shown to him by Dr Fakhry was not on the database , professor Jones decided to go to Egypt to get information about such a strange unknown spider .
(12) The fatal Danger; no antivenins for the strange Egyptian spider :
Professor Jones started that every venomous animal has a different venom. The antivenom for one spider won’t work against the venom of a different spider. Since the spider was unknown, it would take long years to develop a safe antivenom .
(13) Uncle Walid’s advice:
Uncle Walid’s advised his nephew not to tell the police about the strange enormous spider he had seen because this would worry people unnecessarily. This would also affect business in the region badly. A lot of businesses would lose money.
(14) Fighting the Spiders :
Colonel Mikhail asked Ayman and the professor to come to the police station. The Police took special precautions .اتخذ احتياطات خاصة They were going to wear protective clothing and special equipment. Tanks of insecticide, fencing wire, big lights , weapons, and building materials were also taken in the police vehicles.
(15) Echinacea Negra, a new hope:
Professor Jones said that a safe antivenom against the new species of the spiders might take years before it could be produced. Then Ayman got an e-mail from Dr Shereen stating that the ancient Egyptians made a medicine from the roots of a plant called “Echinacea Negra” for the bites of “the black and yellow spider that kills.” She told him that a researcher in the Department of Botanical Science at Cairo University called Wafaa Sultan had studied that plant.
(16) Wafaa Sultan:
The colonel asked Wafaa Sultan to go Sinai to get some of this Echinacea Negra.
(17) A brutal battle معركة وحشية against the spiders:
The professor set up his equipment. He unfolded a large white sheet and spread it on the floor. He fitted some long, thin metal tubes together to make four legs and a frame. He fitted the white sheet over the frame. He started the engine on the thing that looked like a gun. Then he switched on the smoker. The dead spiders began to fall into the white sheet. After that a louder and a heavier object fell into the sheet but it didn’t die. It was the female spider they were searching for. The professor declared that it was not a known species.
(18) The search for Hamdayya’s female spider:
Police officers in protective suits carrying large sprays with insecticide tanks entered the empty house that was next to Ayman’s. As the light fell on the floor of the room where the spiders were hiding, the floor moved like the waves on the sea. The spiders faced clouds of poisonous insecticide. Then the female attacked. It jumped into the face of one the men in the doorway, but it couldn’t through his strong protective mask القناع الواقي The captain lifted up his hand and knocked the big spider to the ground. The spider landed at the feet of another officer in the passage. The officer lifted his insecticide tank and brought it down heavily on the spider. The spider tried to release itself and succeeded in using its sharp fangs to cut through its own leg and get released.
(19) The female spider attacked Ayman fiercely:
When the female spider got released, it jumped with its other seven legs and landed on Ayman’s face. The surprise knocked him off balance افقدتة توازنة and he fell to the ground. Ayman’s suit was torn and the captain pushed him towards the stairs at the end of the passage. But it was too late. Ayman felt a sharp bite. Young spiders were already inside his suit. Two officers carried Ayman to one of the waiting ambulances and then to the nearby hospital.
(20) Ayman, terribly sick, in the hospital
Ayman was lying in the hospital. He had only hours to live unless the Echinacea Negra could get to him in time.
(21) Sinai rescue team: فريق الإنقاذ
The rescue team including the botanist Wafaa Sultan, her colleague Farouk, Captain Osama and two more officers faced very horrible conditions in Sinai while bringing the Echinacea Negra plants to Cairo. Violent storms, heavy rain, rocky and twisting roads, lightning and thunders delayed them a lot. They couldn’t reach their destination with the Echinacea Negra, the only medicine and hope for Ayman that was lying between life and death in the hospital. But for the perseverance and determination of Wafaa Sultan, Ayman’s life would have been lost. They struggled hard to reach the hospital on time.
(22) Ayman’s life was in danger:
Ayman was still in intensive care. His breathing stopped and they were keeping him alive on a ventilator. When Ayman took some medicine made from Echinacea Negra plants, he began to breathe normally. A few hours later he woke up and then he felt well enough to walk around the ward.
(23) A great hero:
Mass media وسائل الإعلام whether newspapers or television glorified Ayman as he saved hundreds of lives. Professor Malcolm Jones said that he saved the world from the spiders and that he could go and study at Oxford University if he wanted to. Professor Jones gave Ayman a very expensive camera with lots of attachments which were kept in an expensive aluminium case.
(24) Certain death and strange rescue:
Ayman was struck when he saw the black and yellow spider on the wall a few centimetres from Lamia’s head. He took an immediate wise decision. He ordered lamia to keep still as he wanted to take a photo. He pressed a button on the camera. The camera’s. The camera’s flashlight blinded the spider for a second. Ayman knocked the spider into the aluminium box, which he then quickly shut.
(25) The second bite:
The deadly spider bit Ayman again on his hand while he was knocking it into the aluminium box of his camera. A look of horror was on everyone’s face. Ayman was already weak. The shock and the horror were too much for him. His eyes closed and he fell to the floor.
(26) Surviving the second bite:النجاة من العضة الثانية
Ayman didn’t die when he was bitten by the spider for the second time. That is because when the venom enters the body of a person or an animal, the body begins to make antivenom to fight the venom. This is what happened when Ayman was bitten the first time. So the bite had little effect on him. Thus; Ayman Hassan, The most popular young man in Egypt, survived the second deadly bite
