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Qin Shi Huang ordered that every work of pre-Qin Dynasty history be turned over to the authorities for destruction. It's usually painted as a massive inquisition that resulted in the loss of pretty much all historical and cultural works predating the period.

据称，秦始皇曾规定：所有先秦书籍都必须上交销毁，这常被渲染为官方扼杀先秦历史文化作品的大规模审查。

They lived 1.977m years ago, predating the appearance of Homo erectus by 77000 years.

他们生活于197.7万年前，比直立人早出现7.7万年。

with several of these phases predating the earliest known agricultural influence from Southeast Asia.

其中好几个阶段在日期上都早于最早已知的从东南亚传来的农业影响。

He also propounded the Heliocentric theory of gravitation, thus predating Copernicus by almost one thousand years.

他也提出以引力作用为基础的日心说, 比哥白尼早了几乎一千年.

predating stonehenge by 6, 000 years, turkey's stunning gobekli tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization

令人惊叹的歌贝克力山丘要比巨石阵早6000年，这一发现颠覆了对文明起源的传统看法。

Nearly half the Negev's Bedouin live in villages often predating the state but officially unrecognised and so denied state support.

将近一半在内盖夫的贝都因人早在这个国家成立之前就住在镇子里但是不被官方承认，也否认国家支持。

He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography predating digital imaging.

他被视为早于数字图像的特效摄影开拓者.