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

事实上，它们从约4000年前的巴比伦时代就已经存在了。

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

巴比伦字母起源于5000多年前的今天的伊拉克。

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

古希腊、巴比伦、中国和印度的数学家都对它进行了估算。

A Babylonian tablet from around 1800 B.C. lists 15 sets of numbers that satisfy the theorem.

公元前 1800 年左右的一块巴比伦石碑列出了15组满足该定理的数字。

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

这道有四千年历史的巴比伦羊肉和甜菜炖菜制作的菜肴与传统的斯拉夫罗宋汤令人惊讶地相似。

It was written down at some point between 1300 and 1000 in Akkadian by the Babylonian writer Shin-Leqi-Unninni.

它是在 1300 年至 1000 年间巴比伦作家辛莱克乌尼尼用阿卡德语写下的。

Thales studied in Babylon and was influenced by both Babylonian and Egyptian astronomy, which was closely associated with religious belief.

泰勒斯在巴比伦学习，受到巴比伦和埃及天文学的影响，这与宗教信仰密切相。

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

我认为最早的版本之一是巴比伦的，亚述的版本，那肯定要早于诺亚。

Later Babylonian chronicles paint a completely different picture of what happened.

后来的巴比伦编年史描绘了一幅完全不同的画面。

The Babylonian army then returns to besiege and destroy the city.

巴比伦军队随后再次围攻并摧毁了这座城市。

'Babylonian! ' the old man screamed. 'Child of Sodom! God will remember this'.

'巴比伦！'老人尖叫起来。“所多玛之子！上帝会记住这一点。

Babylonian, a while palace with ten thousand lights.

巴比伦，一时万灯宫。

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

亚述的一座巨型雕塑可能被毁, 而因为从来没有受到朝拜，一枚巴比伦金币被卖掉。

You've got Babylonian surveyors who have their own unique understanding of right triangles and rectangles, and they're using it.

你有巴比伦的测量员，他们对直角三角形和矩形有自己独特的理解，并且他们正在使用它。

If you go back to the Roman Saturnalia or the Babylonian Sacaean festivals things really got crazy.

如果你回到罗马的农神节或巴比伦的 Sacaean 节日，事情真的会变得疯狂。

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》是一套同名的古巴比伦国王制定的法律。

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，巴比伦的测量在这段时间变得更加准确，这是可以理解的，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.

犹太人的离散，巴比伦人被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。

This " Babylonian captivity" lasted until 539 B.C. when the people were permitted to return to Jerusalem, and the great temple was restored.

这种“巴比伦囚禁” 一直持续到公元前 539 年。 当人们被允许返回耶路撒冷时， 伟大的圣殿被修复了。

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