CNN news：不用破坏地面的考古工作 硬币拍出天价买主只为.DOCVIP

听力课堂,开放式英语学习平台！www.TingC 学英语，练听力，上听力课堂。【免费英语听力下载】 - PAGE 2 - CNN news:不用破坏地面的考古工作 硬币拍出天价买主只为回忆 We`re talking about anything from stone tools to complex machines. A lot of times archeologists have to dig in order to find those artifacts. Not the researchers features in our next report from Nick Glass. They`re using modern technology to try to learn about ancient cultures, and they`re making discoveries without ever disturbing the ground. Watch this. This is obviously a visible Roman monument. But our story is about the invisible, what`s below ground, and a new form of archeology, which reveals it in sensational detail. Austrian farmland lying fallow half a kilometer square, a small tractor heads towards the horizon and trundles back again. Up and down, up and down it goes. The white box at the front is ground- penetrating radar. The whole system costs $300,000. There are 16 separate antennae in there, collecting data, enough data for a 3-D image to a depth of two meters.This is instant bone-shaking archeology without the need to excavate. I was -- I was just looking on this animation of the radar data, going up and down in the subsurface, when this circular feature came up. I said, wow, this is a sensation. This perfect circle was crucial. What we are looking at is a gladiator training ring circa 100 A.D. And the tiny dot in the center was a clinching detail, a posthole. So this was the main feature of a training arena. And what do they use there? They slash their swords against it or -- Yes, they draped it like an enemy, and then they trained with the different -- with the different weapons. It`s not a question of just imagining what the amphitheater and the gladiator school looked like, but of rebuilding them in virtual reality. The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in Vienna, or LBI for short, exists, in its words, for archeological prospection and virtual archeology. And its work seems surgically precise. The gladiator school was 2,800 square meters. It served 50 gl