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长城到底有多长?

林赛：为解释我在2011年的发现，我造了一个新短语：“中国以外的长城”（Great Wall outside China）。这是一种折中的说法。我所看到的建筑物的确是长城，它是北方游牧民族和南方农耕民族发生冲突时期修建的堡垒，但它又不在现在的中国境内。

How can they still be finding parts of the Great Wall today?

《华尔街日报》：那怎么还有人继续发现新的长城呢？

I would rephrase it. Last year I never claimed to have discovered a section of the Great Wall. I evidenced the existence of a section of Great Wall built by a dynasty not previously known to have built a Great Wall.

林赛：我重新表述一下。去年我从未宣称自己发现了一段长城。我证明的是某个朝代所修建的一段长城的存在，而我们之前以为这个朝代没有修建过长城。

How did you do that?

《华尔街日报》：你是怎么发现的？

Thumbing through an atlas of Mongolia, I saw a symbol for what looked like the wall, but when I checked it out in the legend, it was not the Great Wall of China. Of course, how could it be─it was in Mongolia. It was the wall of Genghis Khan. And then eventually I looked on Google Earth and found this faint line crossing the south Gobi. So first of all, it's on the map, so obviously I didn't discover it. But I'm the first researcher that went there, and going there is not easy. It's the heart of the Gobi.