你所不知道的全球五大寶藏

In 1988 an Iraqi archeologist unearthed golden jewelry, ornaments and other precious Assyrian artifacts. They were exhibited at Baghdad's National Museum for just a few months before Iraq invaded Kuwait and the treasure had to be stashed away in a secret location. After that, little was known of the treasure. Many feared it had been looted, sold or blown up in missile strikes. It wasn't until June 2003 that a delegation of museum staff and U.S. officials found the treasure, intact, in five waterlogged wooden crates in a basement of a bombed out building of the central bank.

1988年，一位伊拉克考古學(xué)家發(fā)掘出了黃金珠寶、裝飾品和其他珍貴的亞述時期器物。它們只在巴格達(dá)的國家博物館展出了幾個月，然后伊拉克入侵科威特，這批財寶不得不被轉(zhuǎn)移隱藏到一個秘密的場所。從此以后，這批財寶幾乎杳無音訊。許多人擔(dān)心它們已被人劫掠、售賣或者被導(dǎo)彈炸毀。直到2003年6月，一個由博物館工作人員和美國官員組成的代表團(tuán)才在被炸毀的央行大樓地下室里找到了這批財寶，它們被完好無損地裝在五個浸飽了水的木板箱中。