Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision.

收藏家们很珍惜卡利岛上制作的古代真人大小的泥人雕像，但长期以来一直想知道卡里亚的艺术家们是如何能够以如此逼真的精度描绘人体的。

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Researchers have discovered rocks that could contain the fossilised remains of ancient life on early Mars.

研究者们发现，火星岩石中可能包含着早期火星远古生命的化石残骸。

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The mineral comes from the fossilised remains shells and bones and provides a way to investigate the ancient life that existed on early Earth.

来自化石的矿物含有壳体和骨头，这也给研究地球早期的远古生命提供了一种途径。

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It could also forever change the ancient way of life of the area's native Sami people.

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But since life expectancy in the Ancient World was much less than ours, you didn't have usually several generations in these households, because older people just died.

但是古代人的寿命没我们长，一般不会出现几代同堂，因为年纪大了去世了。

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That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.

直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。

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Dedicated to Christian saints, they are adorned with some of the earliest Christian artwork in the world, dating back to the 2nd Century, featuring paintings on the tunnel walls that depict ancient life.

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Yet, some of the most promising locations to search for ancient life on Mars are places where water may have been in contact with volcanic rocks, ancient hydrothermal systems where conditions may have been conducive to life.

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Its double-tiered library, marble-paved roads, theatre, baths and even public latrine offer the most-preserved look at ancient city life in Turkey.

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