音标:[ˌekskəˈveɪʃənz] ;
n. 挖掘( excavation的复数形式 ); 开凿; 开凿的洞穴(或山路等); (发掘出来的)古迹
n. the act of digging
n. the site of an archeological exploration
n. a hole in the ground made by excavating

Just across the street from Les Invalides, sits one of the best small museums in Europe. The Rodin Museum is filled with work by the greatest sculptors since Michelangelo. Influenced by both the class

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(55) / 评论(0) 分类 信步巴黎

The goddess's portrayed as the decapitate d figure, two great serpents representing streams of blood flow from her neck. For archaeologist Elizabeth Baquenano, a leading expert on Aztec sculpture, the

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As precious as jade is how the Aztecs describe their capital---Tenochtitlan. The Great Pyramid or the Templo Mayor as it's known honored the two most significant Gods for the Aztecs---- Tlaloc, the go

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Broadcast: Jan 17, 2003 At the unveiling of the First Europeans exhibit, Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, offered reporters, 1) anthropologists and other scientists a

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[00:00.00]One person ,sitting alone. [00:03.36]looks like he is praying . [00:05.85]Another man,lying on his side, [00:08.23]looks as if he is trying to get up. [00:11.56]Today, [00:12.46]more than 250 years since excavations started, [00:16.24]thous

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BBC News. 12 Iraqi civilians have been injured in what appears to be a chemical weapons attack in the city of Mosul. Two shells were fired into the government held east of the city from the Islamic State controlled west, releasing a foul smelling gas

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Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam. The old South Boston Aquarium stands In a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows are boarded. The bronze weathervane cod has lost half its scales. The airy tanks are dry. Once my nose crawled like a snail on th

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Hello there! From the CNN center in Atlanta. I m Naamua Delaney. And here are some of the headlines NOW IN THE NEWS. There is a disturbing case at an Illinois cemetery to report. More than 300 bodies at a historic African- America s cemetery may hav

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Excavations at Tel Kedesh, Israel, under the auspices of the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota, have discovered a gold coin which is the oldest to date in the country. Scientists believe it was minted in Alexandria around 191 BC and

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Americas embassies 美国大使馆 First, dig your moat 挖壕筑壑 Designing buildings for Americas diplomats is getting ever trickier 为美国外交官员设计建筑变得愈加棘手 Jul 30th 2011 | WASHINGTON, DC | from the print edition NOBOD

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From now on, things were constantly changing. 自此一切都一再起变化, And this is why, nowadays, when we find even a fragment of pottery in Greece, or anywhere else in Europe, 这就是为什么当我们现在在希腊或欧洲的其它地方

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Buried for nearly 3,600 years, a rare statue of Egypt's King Neferhotep I has been brought to light in the ruins of Thebes by a team of French archaeologists. Officials said on Saturday that the statue was unusual in that the king is depicted holding

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JINAN, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists said Saturday that they have found a new species of giant theropod dinosaur in the eastern province of Shandong. The new species, described as a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex (T. rex), has been named

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拉美兹卡病毒疫情扩大,美国发布旅游警告 Four years ago, a rancher in the Patagonia region of Argentina came upon an old bone sticking out of his desert property near La Flecha. 四年前,在阿根廷的巴塔哥尼亚地区,一名

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A picture of an '800-year-old mobile phone' has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive - again.The supposed archaeological find - which bears a striking resemblance to a 1990s mobile phone - has gone viral and prompted much discussion online. 一张

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U.S. National Research Council calls for more exploration Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 08 April 2010 Photo: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Rick Potts has led excavations at early human sites in the East African Rift Valley, and cu

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China had its OWN breed of domesticated cat 5,500 years ago! 5500年前,中国就有自己的家养喵星人品种了! There are thought to be 500 million domestic cats worldwide, all descended from a form of wildcat native to north Africa and th

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CAIRO, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian archeologists(考古学家) said Sunday that they have discovered a 3,300-year-old tomb(坟墓) that belongs to a high-profile army commander in south Cairo. The tomb dating back to Egypt's 19th Dynasty (about 1

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Curators in other countries are alarmed at what they see as growing aggression. A leading museum director even described the campaign as blackmail. So what chance has Turkey of winning this new culture war? 其他国家的馆长将这些日益增长的

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Norwegians have attended church services across the country to remember the nearly 100 people killed in the shootings and bomb attack on Friday. The main service attended by the royal family and political leaders took place in Oslo cathedral. From Os

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