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You might think this would make the search for Pi-Ramesse easy. But you'd be wrong. Well, the big problem of finding Pi-Ramesse was the problem of the eastern branch of the Nile which we know it lay on had gone. Over time. the branches of the Nile i

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10As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor. 2The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. 3Even as he walks along the road, the fool lacks sense and shows everyone how

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In 2007, paleontologists of Manchester University made a breakthrough discovery. 在2007年，曼彻斯特大学的古生物学家们取得了一项突破性的发现。 By studying the leg bones, musculature and mechanics behind them, they were able

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This made him the most celebrated man in Rome. 这样，他就是罗马最受欢迎的人。 But in the meantime, Sulla had fought on in Africa, and he too had returned triumphant. 但是这时苏拉也在非洲继续作战并且同样成了凯旋的统

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Southwest of Istanbul, three days sailing on an ancient slave ship, is the Isle of Marmara, its very name in stone. In the first centuries of Byzantium, slaves in their tens of thousands worked in these marble hills. How the Byzantines love marble! I

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Such mysterious cargos, such magic marbles from across the empire, now sailed the seas and came to the holy city of Byzantium to be gathered up upon the site of the imperial communion. This is the finished dream, the tense climax of all of ancient en

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Such old shells found in the rocks are called fossils. 这些从岩石中找到的古老甲壳，名叫化石。 Another kind of rock in which many fossils are found is called limestone. A drop of acid or of strong vinegar will tell you whether a sto

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Squares become circles, circles octagons, and all around a single central point. Space spins into ever smaller spaces. It's as perfectly mysterious as the finest natural crystal. The walls, the columns, seem to be nothing more than an illusion, and s