After more than three thousand years, parts of the paintings still look clear and bright.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

King Tut ruled Egypt more than three thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

A researcher says three hundred forty-three thousand AIDS deaths in South Africa in the last ten years could have been prevented.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

In nineteen eighty-three, he began to study more than twenty-two thousand healthy male doctors over forty years of age.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

In two-thousand three, American William Ruddiman first proposed that global warming resulted from human activities thousands of years ago.

VOA: special.2011.04.26

just before it dies. The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates talked of this two thousand three hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

They had three children and were together for nearly sixty-five years, until Betsy died in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Three years later, the company had three thousand five hundred wagons and forty thousand oxen.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

China put an astronaut into space in two thousand three, and it plans to send a robotic explorer to the moon two years from now.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

The twenty mummies were about two thousand to three thousand five hundred years old.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

The project required about one thousand laborers and lasted three years.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

She lived more than three thousand three hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.15

"Historically, during our last two recessions in ninety-one and two thousand one it's taken twenty-three months in ninety-one and about thirty-six months, three years,in our last recession in two thousand one for the United States to regain the jobs lost in the recession."

VOA: special.2009.11.06