时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:遗失的法老城市


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  And then, other strange anomalies began turning up. Puzzling finds fromother places suggesting Piramesse might lie elsewhere. Show me.

He says it was dug up about 30 kilometres from here. He claimes it's fromPiramesse.

Well, cartouche is certainly that of Ramesses the second, but, how cananyone seriously compare a mortar 1 with what we have here, Well, if it'sproof of Piramesse he's after he's standing 2 in it. It's written in almostevery stone around us. We have a temple of Amon the size of Karn and moreobelisks than any other site in Egypt. We've only just scratched thesurface. Now, Come on. Now back to work, back to work, back to work.

Montet spent the rest of his career convinced he had found at Tanis thegreat lost capital of Piramesse . And the truth is he had. These are theancient monuments and buildings of Ramesses' magnificent city, but there wasa bizarre twist to his discovery, because this is not where Ramesses builtthem.

Montet had unwittingly stumbled upon a baffling mystery, one that would takescience another 60 years to unravel 3.

Pierre Montet died in 1966, that same year, an Austrian archeologist ManfredBietak set off on a journey of investigation 4 that would turn Montet'sdiscoveries on their head.

In doing so, he would finally solve the strange puzzle surrounding Ramessesthe Great's vanished city.

What Bietak discovered is so strange that it appears to defy the laws oflogic.

These are the monuments of Piramesse, however they are found in the wrongplace.

What's more, he has absolute proof of it.



1 mortar
n.灰浆,灰泥;迫击炮;v.把…用灰浆涂接合
  • The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
  • The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。
2 standing
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
3 unravel
v.弄清楚(秘密);拆开,解开,松开
  • He was good with his hands and could unravel a knot or untangle yarn that others wouldn't even attempt.他的手很灵巧,其他人甚至都不敢尝试的一些难解的绳结或缠在一起的纱线,他都能解开。
  • This is the attitude that led him to unravel a mystery that long puzzled Chinese historians.正是这种态度使他解决了长期以来使中国历史学家们大惑不解的谜。
4 investigation
n.调查,调查研究
  • In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
  • He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
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