The silent wilderness speaks: the long history of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles

当接受过古典教育的查尔斯·比恩写加利波利时，他是在三千年战争和人类生活的背景下想象的。比恩的历史眼光已经丧失了。加利波利对澳大利亚人来说已经变得越来越重要，作为一个国家记忆和朝圣的地点，然而1915年的事件存在于一个泡沫中，脱离了催生它们的历史景观。我们将把加利波利和达达尼尔海峡的悠久历史还给澳大利亚人，把澳大利亚历史的一个关键部分放在其真正的地理背景下：一个几千年来一直有人居住和经常为之战斗的地区。鉴于对加利波利的重视，该项目还将加强澳大利亚与土耳其的关系。

When Charles Bean, with his Classical education, wrote about Gallipoli, he imagined it in the context of three millennia of wars and human lives. Bean's historical vision has been lost. Gallipoli has become increasingly important to Australians as a site of national memory and pilgrimage, yet the events of 1915 exist in a bubble, divorced from the historical landscape that spawned them. We will give back to Australians the long history of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles, placing a key part of Australia's history in its true geographical context: an area which has been lived in and regularly fought over for thousands of years. Given the significance attached to Gallipoli, the project will also enhance Australian-Turkish relations.