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Israeli archeologists excavating1 what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod, Said on Wednesday they’ve unearthed2 lavish3 Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously4 unseen in the Middle East. They also say they have found signs of a regal two-story mausoleum, bolstering5 their conviction that the Jewish monarch6 was buried there.
Archeologist Ehud Netzer is head of the team from Jerusalem’s Hebrew University which uncovered the site at the king’s winter palace in the Judean desert last year. He says the latest finds truly show work and funding fit for a king
“I sit on the remains7 of a mausoleum of Herod. We haven’t really fell close the foundations. But we’ve found here, and some of them are spread all around, architectural fragments that enable us to restore a monument of 25-meter high, 75-feet high, a very elegant, it’s, which fits Herod’s taste and his status. ”
A depiction8 of Herod’s monument is seen in this animation9 from the National Geographic10 Channel Special Herod’s Lost Tomb, premiering Sunday Nov. 23rd. In Herod’s private box of the auditorium11 the diggers discover delicate frescoes12, depicting13 windows opening on to painted landscapes. One of the scenes appears to show the view of a southern Italian farm.
Just visible in the paintings dating from between 15-10 B.C. are a dog, bushes and what looks like a country villa14. Netzer said that since finding fragments of one ornately carved sarcophagus last year, he and his team have found two more, suggesting that the monumental tomb may have been a royal family vault15.
“The mausoleum like the one which we have here, was generated by a king but not in particular only for himself, many times for his children and family like the famous mausoleum of Augustus in Rome, of Hadrian in Rome. They may contain many family members.”
Herod was the Jewish proxy16 ruler of the holy land under imperial Roman occupation beginning in 37B.C. and he reigned17 for more than six decades. After Herod’s death, Herodium, Herod’s sprawling18 palace fortress19 became a stronghold for Jewish rebels fighting Roman occupation and the site suffered significant battle damage before it was conquered and finally destroyed by Roman forces in 71 A.D.
The insurgents20 reviled21 the memory of Herod as a Roman puppet, and Netzer and his team believe that the violence with which one of the stone caskets was smashed suggests they knew it held his bones.
No human remains or inscriptions22 proving conclusively23 that the tomb was the king’s have been found,but excavation24 work continues.
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1 excavating | |
v.挖掘( excavate的现在分词 );开凿;挖出;发掘 | |
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adj.无节制的;浪费的;vt.慷慨地给予,挥霍 | |
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adv.以前,先前(地) | |
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v.支持( bolster的现在分词 );支撑;给予必要的支持;援助 | |
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n.帝王,君主,最高统治者 | |
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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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n.活泼,兴奋,卡通片/动画片的制作 | |
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n.观众席,听众席;会堂,礼堂 | |
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n.壁画( fresco的名词复数 );温壁画技法,湿壁画 | |
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描绘,描画( depict的现在分词 ); 描述 | |
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n.别墅,城郊小屋 | |
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n.拱形圆顶,地窖,地下室 | |
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adj.蔓生的,不规则地伸展的v.伸开四肢坐[躺]( sprawl的现在分词 );蔓延;杂乱无序地拓展;四肢伸展坐着(或躺着) | |
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n.挖掘,发掘;被挖掘之地 | |
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