[填空题]Archaeologist Timothy Kendall was leading an expedition in northern Sudan when one of his diggers came across a slab of intricately carved stone hidden in rubble. Soon after, another slab (1) up, and then another, until there were 25 in all, laid (2) in the sand like an archaeological jigsaw puzzle. (3) together, the pieces formed a dazzling tableau: golden stars set against a blue sky, with crowned eagles flying (4) into the distance. Flying where, precisely Kendall, an associate curator at Boston Museum of Fine Arts, thinks he knows. And (5) his hunch is correct, he may be a few tons of rubbles (6) from a major archaeological find.
Kendall’s (7) , when and if it comes, should be one of many (8) from that corner of Africa. Long (9) an archaeological afterthought by scientists exploring the more famous temples and pyramids of Egypt, just to the north, Sudan becomes suddenly the ho