2009-10-22 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

They've been allowed to fall into ruin for 1,000 years or more. But nevertheless, this is one of the most amazing places I've been to anywhere.

"This is an incredible rabbit warren. This whole mo

2009-10-22 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The following morning, there is an urgent summons. And I hope it doesn't mean trouble. It doesn't. If we leave the second, I can see the Buddhas. But when I get there, it's not quite what I expecte

2009-10-22 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

That one there in the distance is 180 feet high. That's 57 meters carved out of living rock, the height of a 20-storey building. But I want to get much closer. For that, I need permission. So I climb

2009-10-22 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

In fact, Balkh is built on bones. All around its crumbling walls are the bleached remains of human habitation. Every time the city was sacked, what was left of the population simply rebuilt it. If any

2009-10-22 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

At last, after two days' torturous drive, we make it into Mazar-e Sharif. Despite all the fighting, one building has managed to survive all the shells and bombs, the great Blue Mosque. This time, the

2009-10-22 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Unexploded shells and landmines are everywhere. The human toll extracted by starvation and explosion is terrific. This man has lost three of his five children in the last two weeks.

He has complai

2009-10-22 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

I'd always wanted to explore this fortress because of its role in the forgotten piece of 19th century history, the secret spy wars between Britain and Russia, known as the Great Game. Afghanistan was

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Abdul heads out to try to get us filming permits, reminding us that in Herat we are not high on the Taliban's list of priorities.

"The Taliban from the very beginning, they were under criticism fr

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

If an army marches on its stomach, let's see if I can appeal to the Talibans. Hidden in the back street is a kitchen and I love cooking pasta.

"What I am gonna cook for the, the Afghans around he

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Nor does he warn us that he has no control over the most powerful government agency in Afghanistan, the dreaded Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. The spies of these reli

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

I've been invited here to take photos, yet this is a country where under the Taliban's Islamic code. There are severe restrictions on taking photographs. Tomorrow I'll get a permit, but as always t

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

You don't have to go far to see evidence of war. Everywhere there is rubble. We film discreetly. Photography of humans is officially banned in Afghanistan. And because this is a country suffering fro

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

But I want to go back to where I was as a correspondent, the frontline- the killing grounds of Kabul where I've witnessed so much death and suffering. And it wasn't just the humans who suffered. Wha

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The Lost Buddhas of Afghanistan 阿富汗- 寻找失去的佛陀

Afghanistan, (which literally means Land of the Afghan) is a mountainous land-locked country located in Central Asia. It has a history and cul

2009-10-21 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

A bus takes me on the first leg of my journey, and for the first 40 miles, we pass through the tribal area, a region run by autonomous chieftains. As a westerner, I must take an armed guard because ki

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

Moving any single piece would have taken a workforce of hundreds.Using sleds to transport the pieces through the city. Monuments,like statues and obelisks,would have been taken down and transported wh

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

But if Bietak and Pusch had indeed found Piramess at Qantir, what was it that Montet had discovered at Tanis.

Once you've recognized Piramess is indeed at Qantir, you start wondering what on eart

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The clue to what the ancient Egyptians did to Piramess 3000 years ago lies hidden in the middle of an unassuming field in modern day Qantir. Here are the feet of one of the many colossal statues that

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The most wonderful part of all this huge area is a building in the middle of our scan, one huge structure covering more than 41,000 square meters, the center of which is a building which shows a seque

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

The modern day town of Qantir is a jumbled collection of ramshackle buildings typical of a delta town today. Judging by its central position on the scan. It is almost certainly sitting slap-bang on th

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

When they unearthed the floor of the buildings within which the objects had been found, they discovered another surprise.

We found a special set of stones, consisting of a tethering stone up front

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

But it had taken Pusch and Bietak years of excavation just to unearth the garrison. At this rate of digging ,it would take hundreds of years to prove if they had truly found the site of Piramesse. And

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

So he had never painstakingly dated at all. If he had, he would have discovered the bizarre truth about Tanis, that there was no city here at the time of Ramesses the Great.

Not a single pottery sh

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

No statues, no obelisks, no temples, nothing to suggest this could once have been home to the ancient world's great lost capital.

"When I came first to this area and to this site, I was shocked.

2009-10-20 所属栏目:探索频道英语听力

That pottery can be dated, and so tell you the date of the city itself. By dating the pottery of all the settlements along the ancient lost branches of the Nile, that will tell you when each settlemen