Professor Bestock led five graduate students on a recent excavation at Abydos, in southern Egypt.

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Now it's not entirely clear that Milton has been successful in sufficiently vilifying Mammon's project of the excavation of riches.

现在尚不清楚弥尔顿是否成功地,有力地咒骂贪神挖掘财富的这一行径。

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I think in a lot of ways - and this could probably be said of Spenser as well - Milton is attracted to the excavation project.

我从很多方面思考,这里可以指斯潘塞,弥尔顿被这个掘金计划吸引了。

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He found it and it was the excavation of the site of Mycenae which was soon followed by the excavation of other sites from the same period that made it possible for people to talk about this culture, even before they could read the script.

他找到了迈锡尼城,并且这次的挖掘之后,又引发了一轮对于,同时期其他遗迹的挖掘活动,而这也让人们在破解他们的文字之前,有了探索此文明的可能性

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