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G.speak Week-3 Listening
G.speak Week-3 Listening
1.Переходимо за посиланням
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgXP_9BNgmE
і прослуховуємо один раз відео
(The Ancient City of Sela | Lost Cities With Albert Lin).
G.Speak
KEYS
Look at this.
There's pottery just, like, falling out of the ground.
That's the indication for people living here.
This is somebody's fingerprint.
Yes, exactly.
My finger fits perfectly.
That's crazy.
You can just feel somebody's fingerprint right here, locked in time.
Unbelievable.
The pottery proves people were here, but it's not clear who.
It could simply be the guards charged with protecting the
Nabateans' treasure.
Look at this.
You got a staircase.
Where does it go?
Up.
Probably it's a place to pray.
Yes, absolutely.
You think so?
Yeah.
You look for a high place to be closer to the gods.
So far, all I've found is a piece of pottery and an ancient stairway to
heaven.
G.Speak
I guess this is all sandstone, right?
Yes, it is.
So over 2,000 years, the landscape has sort of melted away.
The desert winds and winter rains are eroding the soft
sandstone into strange shapes.
But I can just make out curious regular markings in the rocks.
What are these little holes up here?
Well, actually, this is the traditional Nabatean house.
So they were living here.
And you can see the marks of the axe that they have been using
to carving.
These are chisel marks, yes, exactly.
Somebody was just sitting here, chiseling away, creating a space
for their family maybe.
Carving caves into dwellings suggested they spent long
stretches of time here.
G.Speak
Thank you
G.Speak