Buried Treasure

Buried treasure

被埋藏的宝藏

What is treasure and how do you find it? We're going on a treasure hunt, but how can we tell what is valuable? Gold, silver and gems are valuable, but what about animal bones and cloth? They may not look like treasure, but they can tell us how people lived long ago.

什么是宝藏？你要怎么找到它呢？ 我们要去寻宝啦，可是我们怎么判断什么东西有价值呢？ 黄金、白银和宝石很珍贵，那动物骨头和布料呢？ 它们看起来可能不像宝藏，但能告诉我们很久以前的人们是怎么生活的。

When something has been buried in the ground for a long time, it may change colour and shape. Gold stays shiny. Silver turns purple -grey and may break. Iron turns into rusty lumps. Copper and bronze go green. Bones may crumble. Cloth survives only in very hot, very cold and very wet places.

如果一样东西被埋在地下很久，它的颜色和形状可能会发生变化。 黄金会一直亮晶晶的。 白银会变成紫灰色，还可能碎裂。 铁会变成锈迹斑斑的硬块。 铜和青铜会变绿。 骨头可能会碎成渣。 布料只有在极热、极寒和极湿的地方才能保存下来。

Anyone can find buried treasure, but you need an archaeologist to tell you more about it. Archaeologists study the past using objects that have been dug up. Buried treasure may tell us what happened in the past, when it happened and sometimes why.

谁都有可能找到被埋藏的宝藏，不过你得找考古学家才能了解它更多的秘密哦。 考古学家会用挖出来的物品研究过去的历史。 埋藏的宝藏可能会告诉我们过去发生了什么、什么时候发生的，有时候还能告诉我们为什么会发生。

an archaeologist's toolkit on the dig trowel sieve brush pegs string recording the treasure bag label box camera notebook

考古学家的工具包 挖掘用具 泥铲 筛子 刷子 定位桩 细绳 记录宝藏用具 收纳袋 标签 收纳盒 相机 笔记本

Flint Hand Axe This piece of flint was found buried on a beach in England. It's a hand axe and it's 500 ,000 years old! You can tell it's a hand axe by looking at the shape of the stone and the sharp point at the top. It was made at a time when people made tools out of stone, not metal. Flint tools were sharp enough to cut down trees.

燧石手斧 这块燧石是在英国的一处海滩下挖出来的。 它是一把手斧，已经有50万年的历史啦！ 你看石头的形状就能认出它是手斧 还有它顶端尖尖的利刃。 它被制造出来的时候，人们还用石头做工具，还不会用金属呢。 燧石工具很锋利，足够砍倒树木哦。