In fact, they've been around since Babylonian times, around 4,000 years ago.

事实上，它们从约4000年前巴比伦时就已经存在了。

Estimates of it appear in the works of ancient Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, and Indian mathematicians.

古希腊、巴比伦、中国和印度学家都对它进行了估算。

The ancient Babylonian priests who spent a fair bit of time staring at the sky had already noted that there was an eighteen-year pattern in their recurrence, but they didn't have the mathematics to predict an eclipse accurately.

古巴比伦祭司们花了相当长时间盯着天空，已经注意到这种周期性变化有一个18年规律，但他们没有精确预测日学公式。

The Babylonian alphabet originated in what is now Iraq more than 5,000 years ago.

巴比伦字母起源于5000多年前今天伊拉克。

It takes Yahweh 40 days to do what the Babylonian gods did in seven!

耶和华用 40 天完成了巴比伦诸神用 7 天完成工作！

The Babylonian 12-month calendar was adapted by other ancient cultures including the Romans who made vows to a two-faced deity that simultaneously looked back on the old year and forward to the new.

巴比伦12个月历法包括罗马人在内其他古文化所改编，他向一位双面神发誓，同时回顾过去，展望新一年。

According to the official statistics, about 15,000 pieces of cultural relics from the Stone Age, the Babylonian, Assyrian, and Islamic periods were stolen or destroyed by looters after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled by US-led troops in 2003.

据官方统计，2003 年萨达姆政权美国领导军队推翻后，大约有一万五千件石器时、巴比伦、亚述和伊斯兰时期文劫者偷走或摧毁。

The Babylonian 12-month calendar was adopted by other ancient cultures including the Romans who made vows to a two-faced deity that simultaneously looked back on the old year and forward to the new.

巴比伦 12 个月历法包括罗马人在内其他古文化所改编，他向一位双面神发誓，同时回顾过去，展望新一年。

One of the records Tapputi left behind is a recipe for a salve she made for the Babylonian king, an ointment that contained water, flowers, oil, and calamus.

Tapputi 留下记录之一是她为巴比伦国王制作药膏配方，这种药膏含有水、花、油和芦苇。

Ask an ancient Maya, Babylonian, Egyptian, why the sun comes up or the wind blows, they'd probably point to a myth or a God, not to astronomy or physics.

如果你问古玛雅人，古巴比伦人，古埃及人，为什么太阳会升起，为什么会刮风，他们可能会说这是神话或者上帝，而不是天文学或理学。

Adonis, who is known from Greek mythology, was associated with the annual cycle of nature and shared characteristics with Egypt's Osiris and Tammuz from Babylonian and Assyrian mythology.

希腊神话中阿多尼斯与自然界年度周期有关，并与埃及奥西里斯和巴比伦及亚述神话中塔木斯有共同特征。

" Out of hundreds of thousands of cuneiform documents, they are the only food recipes that exist" says Agnete Lassen, associate curator of the Yale Babylonian collection.

耶鲁大学巴比伦收藏副馆长阿格内特·拉森说：“在十万份楔形文字文献中，它们是唯一存在谱。”

This tablet shows us that Babylonian surveying became a lot more accurate during this time, which is understandable because people are starting to own land privately.

这块泥板告诉我们，巴比伦测量在这段时间变得更加准确，这是可以理解，因为这时候人们开始拥有私人土地。

The Jewish diaspora, the Babylonian captivity was itself a form of ethnic cleansing, as was King Mithridates of Pontus's murder of 80,000 Romans in 88 BC.

犹太人离散，巴比伦人俘从某种形式也算是种族清洗，公元前88年本都国王杀害8万罗马人，也算是种族清洗。

It appears in The Bible and in The Code of Hammurabi, a set of laws written by the ancient Babylonian king of that name.

它出现在《圣经》和《汉谟拉比法典》中，《汉谟拉比法典》是一套由同名古巴比伦国王制定法律。

A giant sculpture of an Assyrian idol might be destroyed, while a gold Babylonian coin is sold, because the coin was never worshipped.

亚述一座巨型雕塑可能毁, 而因为从来没有受到朝拜，一枚巴比伦金币卖掉。

I think one of the earliest versions we have of it is the Babylonian, the Assyrian version, that definitely predates Noah.

我认为最早版本之一是巴比伦，亚述版本，那肯定要早于诺亚。

This 4000 year old Babylonian recipe for lamb and beet stew produces a dish surprisingly like traditional Slavic borscht.

这道有四千年历史巴比伦羊肉和甜菜炖菜制作菜肴与传统斯拉夫罗宋汤令人惊讶地相似。

Even before Hippocrates extolled the diagnostic virtues of pee-sniffing, early Sumerian and Babylonian physicians were making urine-related observations.

甚至在希波克拉底颂扬嗅尿诊断优点之前，早期苏美尔人和巴比伦内科医生已经进行了尿液相关观察。

You see, about a thousand years before the Greek astronomers were looking at the night sky. You've got Babylonian surveyors who have their own unique understanding of right triangles and rectangles, and they're using it.

在希腊天文学家观察夜空一千年以前，巴比伦测量员对直角三角形和矩形有他们自己独特理解，他们还会使用它。