One can trace such expeditions back to ancient Sumeria, the earliest known Middle Eastern civilization.

这样的探险可以追溯到古苏美尔时期，这是已知的最早的中东文明。

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It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations.

难以想象，希腊人可以在没有与这些东方文明的联系情况下，建立了一个伟大的文明。

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China is a product of Eastern civilization — and specially, of Chinese civilization.

中国是东方文明的产物——尤其是中国文明的产物。

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It is inconceivable the Greeks could have developed a civilization that they did without contact with these eastern civilizations and learned a great deal from them.

难以想象,希腊人可以在脱离与东方的联系,并未向东方学习的情况下,建立一个与其同样伟大的文明

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And so many scholars, and many people, have remarked that it's not a small irony that the Ancient Near Eastern people with one of the, or perhaps the most lasting legacy, was not a people that built and inhabited one of the great centers of Ancient Near Eastern civilization.

很多学者，很多人都说，拥有世界上最永恒遗产的,古代近东居民，并不是那些修建并居住于，古代近东文明中心的人,这是不是很讽刺呢。

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Cyprus has inscribed on the World Heritage List ten churches which bear outstanding testimony to Byzantine civilization, are well-conserved examples of rural religious architecture and provide evidence for the links between eastern and western Christian art.

UNESCO: Painted Churches in the Troodos Region