Sigüenza first learnt of Atlantis while studying to be a Jesuit where he came across the work of Athanasius Kircher whose 1665 map of the lost continent was the first in history. Expelled from the Je

发表于:2018-12-07 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 遗失的大陆

This is absolutely breath taking, it is actually quite hard to believe in some ways the Egyptians did what they did when they did it, at a time when the rest of the planet, or most of it anyway was in intellectual darkness, the Egyptians were creatin

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Don: Oh, Yael, I just read the most beautiful poem. No wonder our ancestors developed writing--they probably wanted to treasure poetry for posterity. Yael: Actually Don, writing was developed to keep track of more mundane things, like money. For exam

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Now then, think what a job it must have been to decipher all that Egyptian writing when people became interested in hieroglyphs again, 200 years ago. 那么现在想一想,当人们在200年前重新对象形文字产生兴趣,要读懂所有的古

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight program. Im Rebekah Schipper. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice

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Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight program. Im Rebekah Schipper. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Voice 1 On July 15, 1799, French Army engineer Captain Pierre-Fran?ois Bouchard discovered something that would change the world. Voice 2 In

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