伊朗东南部一座青铜器时期的古城挖掘出的一对骰子可追溯至5000年前。
An excavation of a bronze-age city in south-eastern Iran turned up a pair of dice dating back nearly 5,000 years.
震前：结古城是通往拉萨之路上，一个介于康巴和安多之间的古老市镇。
Before the earthquake: Jiegu town, an ancient trading mart between Kham and Amdo on the road to Lhasa.
150年前马克.吐温（Mark Twain ）访问大马士革时幽默的评论这座三千年的古城：“她已经见识了一千个帝国的枯骨，而在她消亡之前，它会再看到另外一千个帝国的坟墓。”
On a visit 150 years ago Mark Twain wrote wryly of the three-millennia-old city: “She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies.”
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