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Archaeologists believe that the appearance of the Terracotta Warriors in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China was inspired by ancient Greeks, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
BBC于本周二报道，考古学家们相信，中国第一位皇帝秦始皇陵墓中的兵马俑的出现是受到了古希腊人的启发。
Ancient Greeks were even thought to have directly trained local artisans of the Qin Empire (221-206 BC). The latest finding broke the theory that the first direct contact between China and the west was through Marco Polo in the 13th century.
他们甚至还认为古希腊人直接对秦朝(公元前221年——206年)的当地工匠展开了培训。最近的发现打破了中西方之间的直接交流始于13世纪由马克?波罗为桥梁的这一理论。
"There is evidence that the earliest contacts between China and Europe was made before the opening of the ancient ’Silk Road’. It is much earlier than what the current record shows," said Li Xiuzhen, renowned archaeologist in the Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum Site Museum.
著名的秦始皇陵墓遗址博物馆著名史学家李秀珍表示：“有证据表明，中欧之间最早的联系要在古‘丝绸之路’开辟之前。这比当前显示的记录要早很长时间。”
The Terracotta Warriors in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang were discovered accidentally by a farmer in Lintong County, northwest China’s Shannxi province in 1974.
秦始皇陵墓兵马俑于1974年被一个农民在中国西北部临潼县偶然发现。
There was no tradition of building human statues as large as what is now known as the Terracotta Army before the Qin Empire, and a more reliable explanation of the phenomenon is that it is the result of foreign influence, according to Li.
根据李秀珍的说法，在秦朝之前，没有修筑兵马俑这么大的人物雕像的传统，还有更多可靠证据表明，这是受到国外影响的结果。
The newly found "jumping and rolling" acrobat terracotta figures in Qin Shi Huang’s tomb showed different artistic styles from the others, which could be evidence of the foreign influence theory, Lukas Nickel, professor of University of Vienna noted.
维也纳大学的卢卡斯.尼克尔教授指出，在秦始皇陵墓新发现的“跳滚”杂技演员陶瓦人物表现了与其他兵马俑的不同艺术风格，这能够当作国外影响理论的证据。