A group of workers have stumbled across a hidden room containing hundreds of paintings believed to date back to the Kingdom of Egypt of the early twentieth century.

一组工作人员偶然发现了一间密室里存放着许多画，这些画可以追溯到20世纪早期的埃及王国时期。

youdao

Thebes was the ruling capital of ancient Egypt during its most dominant eras, beginning with the Old Kingdom 4500 years ago, and is home to two of its most revered temples at Karnak and Luxor.

从4500年前的埃及古王国开始时，底比斯就被古埃及大多数重要的朝代定为首都。

youdao

And I will bring again the captivity of Egypt, and will cause them to return into the land of Pathros, into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom.

我必叫埃及被掳的人回来，使他们归回本地巴忒罗。

youdao

Africa reached the peak of its power around the year 2050 BC when the middle Kingdom of Egypt was at its most powerful.

FORBES: Global Warming And Africa's Future

One of Dr Weiss's former students, Sarah Parcak, of Cambridge University, presented data to the meeting on how a third period of cooling and drying, 4, 200 years ago, destroyed the Old Kingdom of Egypt.

ECONOMIST: Climate change and civilisation

Of course, rain-fed agriculture is even more vulnerable to climate change than the irrigated variety, as Ms Parcak's Cambridge colleague Lauren Ristvet showed the conference with her study of northern Syria during the same period as the fall of Egypt's Old Kingdom.

ECONOMIST: Climate change and civilisation