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What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

Jimenez Lai

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Jimenez Lai
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: March 21
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Taizhong
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