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　　Passage Two

　　新旧情况：20120331

　　题材：环境能源类

　　题目：Egypt‘s Sunken Treasures

　　题型及数量：Matching 4个;判断;填空

　　文章大意

　　埃及一个古建筑在海底被发现了，考古学家拯救海底建筑。

　　相关背景信息，仅供了解。

　　The exhibition of Egyptian antiquities currently at the Grand Palais in Paris possesses an international importance comparable in the past 40 years only with the exhibition of Chinese art organised by Beijing at the Petit Palais in 1973. Instead of famous works of art from museums or private collections, it displays a great number of new archaeological discoveries, including some unexpected ch d'oeuvres, all but one unpublished bore now. Shown first in Berlin, it has been organised by a French underwater archaeologist, Franck Goddio (Fig. 5), to present the results of well over 10 years of his research along the shores of the Nile delta.

　　During the first millennium AD, several earthquakes and floods between Alexandria and the western mouth of the Nile caused the coastline to sink into the sea along a stretch of some 30 kilometres. ThonisHeraklion, at the end of the Canopic branch of the Nile, and the neighbouring city of Kanopos-East disappeared during the 7th-8th century. The inundation of Alexandria's eastern harbour, called by the Romans Portus Magnus, occurred between the mid 4th and the early 14th centuries AD.

　　Goddio has been assisted by a skilful team drawn from Egypt, France, Germany and elsewhere. But the vision, the will and the tenacity that have kept together the complex machinery of the enterprise are his. Now over 50, Goddio has wide experience of diving in the Pacific and the Atlantic. The results of his long underwater search presented in the Grand Palais are in many ways comparable to the rediscovery of Troy by Schliemann in the 19th century and of Tutankhamun's tomb by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter in the 1920s. It is true that among the underwater ruins that he has explored, Goddio has not recovered any gold and silver treasure comparable with the findings of Schliemann and Carter. As far as

　　gold is concerned, the show includes only some coins, earrings, rings, amulets and crosses. However, the discovery under the sea after so many centuries of three ancient ports enables Goddio to take his place not only beside Schliemann and Carter but also with Jean Yoyotte, probably the greatest living French Egyptologist, Michel Tardieu and Manfred Clauss, responsible for the exhibition's imposing catalogue. Moreover, for the first time on such a scale, film cameras have recorded the work of the excavators at thevery instant of making discoveries. This has long been a dream of land-based archaeologists, since an excavation, even when recorded in writing, is also a destruction.

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