Whales originated in the freshwater lakes and rivers of ancient Asia about sixty million years ago.

鲸鱼起源于大约六千万年前亚洲的淡水湖泊和河流。

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The art of public speaking began in ancient Greece over 2,000 years ago.

公众演讲的艺术起源于2000多年前的古希腊。

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The Antikythera Mechanism was found a hundred years ago, under water in an ancient Greek shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

100年前，人们在水下，在地中海的一艘古希腊沉船发现了安提基西拉机械装置。

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Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

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Five years ago, he used computed tomography to study the remains of Tutankamun, the famous boy ruler of ancient Egypt.

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It has high mountains. It has valleys formed by ancient ice that cut deep into the Earth millions of years ago.

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If, like us, you struggle to read the front of the Corn Flakes box of a morning, you likely gave up any hope of cracking ancient codes long ago.

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As the lawsuits indicate, the alleged kickbacks occurred as recently as two years ago, not exactly ancient times.

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Like the giant ancient Buddhas destroyed a few months ago by Afghanistan's despotic Taliban, the World Trade Center can never really be rebuilt.

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