The Olmec left us very few clues. 奥尔梅克人没给我们留下多少线索 But what they did give us is a powerful, in-your-face reminder 但他们的确留下了一个直接有力的提示 that, no matter where in the world, 提示我们 无论在...
This colossal stone head is almost 3,000 years old. 这座巨大的石雕头像差不多有三千年历史了 It was made by the Olmec, 它是奥尔梅克文明的产物 the earliest civilisation in Central America. 中美洲最早的文明 It really...
The Maya and their language lived on 玛雅人和他们的语言流传了下来 but far away from the stone monuments of their ancestors. 但是与他们祖先在石刻上的模样相去甚远 All that remained to say that beneath the forest canopy 在...
The stairway we see today has been reconstructed, 我们今天看到的石阶已经过重建 but around it, we can see the chaos of the collapse. 但在它周围能看到垮塌造成的狼藉 The stairway was built as the Mayans were suffering a drou...
Certainly ruler 15 was trying to impress the population 第十五位统治者显然想给人们留下深刻印象 so he was really trying to cement in stone 所以他很努力地把科潘历史和王朝百态 what the history of Copan was and what th...
It's the work of a society where that balance between habitat 这反映出在当时的社会中 and ambition is still in good order. 生存环境和野心之间依然处于良好的平衡 It's certainly hard to imagine a more vivid realisation 没有什...
But in this case, it makes up a date. 但在这里 这些符号组成了一个日期 We know exactly what that date was. 我们很确切地知道这个日期 This is the 11th of February, 526. 就是公元526年的2月11日 In 526, Mayan civilisation...
There were ceramic vessels and there were murals too. 有陶器 也有壁画 And out of the Mayan delight in making pictures 玛雅人以绘画为乐 并由此发明了 developed a fully-fledged script. 一套非常成熟的文字体系 Writing made...
Mayan art and architecture was a prayer 玛雅的艺术品和建筑都反映了 and appealed to the weather - 对天气的祈求 Let us live, let every year be fruitful. 让我们活下去 让年年丰收 Only the most damaged of the art 曾经装点卡...
This is a spectacular space. 多么壮观啊 The kind of space 这样的空间结构 you would really expect to see in Rome or Greece, 你本以为会在罗马或希腊看到 these great pyramids with platforms for performances 这些有着表演平台...
