英语科普小知识 罗马大象墓地可能曾是密特拉教寺庙.docVIP

The so-called Elephants Tomb in the Roman?necropolis（大墓地）?of Carmona (Seville, Spain) was not always used for burials. The original structure of the building and a window through which the sun shines directly in the?equinoxes（春分，秋分）?suggest that it was a temple of Mithraism, an unofficial religion in the Roman Empire. The position of Taurus and Scorpio during the equinoxes gives force to the theory. The Carmona necropolis (Spain) is a collection of funeral structures from between the 1st century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. One of these is known as the Elephants Tomb because a statue in the shape of an elephant was found in the interior of the structure. ? The origin and function of the construction have been the subject of much debate. Archaeologists from the University of Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) have conducted a detailed analysis of the structure and now suggest that it may originally not have been used for burials but for worshipping the God Mithras. Mithraism was an unofficial religion that was widespread throughout the Roman Empire in the early centuries of our era. ? Researchers have identified four stages in which the building was renovated, giving it different uses. ? In some stages, it was used for burial purposes, but its shape and an archaeoastronomical analysis suggest that it was originally designed and built to contain a Mithraeum [temple to Mithras], as explained by Inmaculada Carrasco, one of the authors of the study. ? Carrasco and her colleague Alejandro Jiménez focus their studies on a window in the main chamber built during the first stage. Earlier studies had already suggested that the purpose of the window was not to provide light, but that rather it may have served a symbolic and spiritual purpose. 所谓大象在罗马墓地（大墓地），卡莫纳（塞维利亚，西班牙）并非总是用于墓葬墓。原结构的建设，并通过这一个窗口，太阳直接照射在昼夜平分点（春分，秋分），这是一个密特拉教寺庙，在罗马帝国的一个非官方的宗教。金牛座和天蝎座在春分，秋分的位置给力的理论。墓地的卡莫纳（西班牙）是一个集合的葬礼结构的第一世纪BC和的第二个世纪AD其中之一被称为大象的墓之间，因为大象形状的雕像被发现在内部结构。 ? 的起源和功能的建设一直受到很多争论。结构的巴勃罗·德Olavide（塞维利