随着考古学家在新形成的冲积平原发现宝藏，保护主义者警告称，另一座诺瓦卡霍夫卡水库将构成生态灭绝。
As archaeologists find treasure trove along new floodplain, conservationists say another Nova Kakhovka would be ecocide On a warm September day, a group of underwater archaeologists and researchers were boiling water for tea on their campfire on the banks of the Dnipro River, tents pitched on the sandy shoreline.
在一个温暖的九月日子里，一群水下考古学家和研究人员在营火旁烧水煮茶，帐篷搭在第聂伯河的沙滩上。
They were three weeks into an archaeological expedition of the waters around Khortytsia – a rocky island 12.5km long and 2.5km wide that lies just downstream of the city of Zaporizhzhia, in south-eastern Ukraine.
他们正进行为期三周的考古考察，探索霍尔蒂茨亚岛周边水域——该岛长12.5公里、宽2.5公里，位于乌克兰东南部扎波罗热市下游。
High above the island, a Shahed drone whined on its way.
就在岛屿上空，一架沙赫德无人机嗡嗡作响地飞过，乌克兰拦截机和地面小武器火力试图将其击落，但均未成功。考古学家们毫不在意。这正是距离俄乌战争前线28英里（45公里）处的日常生活。
A Ukrainian interceptor, and small-arms fire from the ground, tried, unsuccessfully, to bring it down. The archaeologists ignored it. This is life as normal, 28 miles (45km) from the combat zone in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
