首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Two cities that lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1.200 years ago, Herakleion and Eastern Canopus. disappeared sudd
Two cities that lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1.200 years ago, Herakleion and Eastern Canopus. disappeared sudd
admin
2010-09-25
34
问题
Two cities that lay at the edge of the Mediterranean more than 1.200 years ago, Herakleion and Eastern Canopus. disappeared suddenly, swallowed by the sea. Now, an international team of scientists may have figured out the mystery of why it happened.
The researchers have concluded that the two cities collapsed when the land they were built on suddenly liquefied(液化).
Until recently, the only evidence that they existed came from Greek mythology and the writings of ancient historians. Then, during expeditions in 1999 and 2000. a team of French marine archaeologists headed by Franck Goddio found the ruins--almost completely intact--buried on the seafloor of the Abu Qir Bay in Egypt.
Since then, there has been much speculation (猜测) about why the cities disappeared so suddenly. Earthquakes, subsistence(生存) conditions, and a rise in sea level have all been suggested as possibilities.
"There are no written documents on how. When, or why these two cities went down," said Jean-Daniel Stanley, a geoarchaeologist with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. D.C.
Stanley and his colleagues at the Institute Europeen d’Archeologie Sans-Marine in Paris (the European Institute of Marine Archaeology) argue that a major flood of the Nile in the middle of the eighth century A.D. was to blame. The flood, they say, triggered the sinking of Eastern Canopus and Herakleion by turning the ground beneath the cities into liquefied mud.
The collapse was sudden and catastrophic, said Stanley. "We can tell," he said, "because in both places we’ve found gold and jewelry, which, if there had been time, people would have taken with them when feeing."
Herakleion and East Canopus once stood at the mouth of the now-extinct Canopic branch of the Nile. Built sometime between the seventh and sixth centuries B.C., as the days of the Egyptian Pharaohs ware coming to an and, the cities flourished as gateways to Egypt.
Harakleinn was a port of entry to Egypt and grew wealthy by collecting taxes on goods being shipped upriver.
Frozen in time below the waters were many temples and statues of gods and goddesses, also attesting to the cities’ role as destinations for religious pilgrims.
Until the undersea discovery, historians knew about the cities only through myth and ancient literature. Menelaus, the king of Sparta and husband to Helen, over whom the Trojan War was fought, was said to have stayed in Herakleion following the ten-year war against Troy.
Greek mythology holds that the city of Canopus was named after Menelaus’ helmsman(舵手), who was bitten by a viper (毒蛇) and transformed into a god.
The Greek historian Herodotus wrote of having visited the cities in 450 B.C.
The cities’ fortunes declined when Alexander the Great founded Alexandria in 331 B.C. Yet centuries later, Greek geographer Strabo (63 B.C.-21 A.D.) described the location and wealth of Herakleion, while Seneca (5 B.C.-65 A.D.) condemned the cities for decadent(颓废的) and corrupt lifestyles.
According to the passage, when did Herakleion and Eastern Canopus disappear?
选项
答案
More than 1,200 years ago. /In the middle of the eighth century.
解析
文章开始提到,一千两百多年前坐落于地中海边上的赫拉克莱翁和东坎诺帕斯突然消失了,由此可得答案。第六段又提到了研究者的推断,即公元八世纪中期的尼罗河大洪水是导致城市消失的原因,由此也可得答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/x8z7777K
0
大学英语六级
相关试题推荐
ThepeopleoftheUSAhavebeenopposedtoacentralizedgovernmentsincelongbeforetheRevolutionof1776.Whenthe13coloni
Itisdifficulttoimaginewhatlifewouldbelikewithoutmemory.Themeaningsofthousandofeverydayperceptions,
Thousandsofteachersattheelementary,secondary,andcollegelevelscantestifythattheirstudents’writingexhibitsatende
Longbeforethefirst【B1】______arrivedinAmerican,astrangelookinganimallivedonthewestern【B2】______.Itlookedsomewha
A、Anapartmentbuilding.B、Astadium.C、Atheater.D、Arace-track.C
Weallknowwhatanadvertisementis;it’s【B1】______messagethatannouncessomethingforsale.Now,thereisanimportant【B2】
A、Registerforsummerschool.B、Repairholesinroomwalls.C、Removepersonalproperty.D、Callthehousingoffice.C
A、Atschool.B、Athome.C、AtYouthClubs.D、AtYouthCenters.B信息明示题。文章第一段最后指出,年轻人会花大量的空闲时间在家陪家人或朋友,所以B正确。
A、Thetime.B、Theschedule.C、Whotreats.D、Bywhatthey’llgo.D本题是细节题。约会的时间,安排,由谁请客都提到了。但没有提到他们怎么去。
Thearmycommander______astateofemergencyinthatareaafterseveraloutbreaksofsuicidebombs.
随机试题
个体身心发展动因的基本理论中,外铄论认为()。
利用广义表的head和tail操作,可从广义表L=((a,b),(c,d))中分解得到原子c,其操作表达式为head(head(tail(L)));分别写出从下列广义表中分解得到b的操作表达式。(1)L1=
社会成员接受了社会规范的目标,但却无法获得实现这些目标的合乎规范的手段,这时就产生了失范,这种观点来自于【】
Jenkinswasajeweller,whohadmadealargediamond(钻石)ringworth£57,000fortheSilkstoneJewelleryShop.Whenitwasready
图示质量为m的质点M,受有两个力F和R的作用,产生水平向左的加速度a,它在x轴方向的动力学方程为:
以预制构件组成外墙、楼板和屋面,以现浇钢筋混凝土形成内墙的建筑物为()。
甲有限责任公司2018年1月1日所有者权益总额为5000万元,其中实收资本为3000万元,资本公积1000万元,其他综合收益500万元,盈余公积1000万元,未分配利润一500万元。2018年的利润总额为800万元(假定不存在任何纳税调整事项),企业所得税
【2014年安徽.单选】学生读完《淘气包马小跳》,头脑中出现的马小跳的形象是()。
()是依法治国方略在监狱管理中的具体体现。
1763年,老威廉·皮特在《论英国人个人居家安全的权利》演讲中说:即使最穷的人,在他的小屋里也能够对抗国王权威:屋子可能很破旧,屋顶可能很破旧,屋顶可能摇摇欲坠;风可以吹进这所房子,雨可以淋进这所房子,但是国王不能够踏进这所房子,他的千军万马也不敢跨过这间
最新回复
(
0
)