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

事实上，它们从约4000年的巴比伦时代就已经存。

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算。

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

巴比伦字母起源于5000多年的今天的伊拉克。

First of all, the reason the Babylonian gods decided to destroy humanity is...well, it's unclear.

首先，巴比伦诸神决定毁灭人类的原因......呃，还不清楚。

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

公元 1800 年左右的一块巴比伦石碑列出15组满足该定理的数字。

Somewhere in between the inscrutable Babylonian flood, and the sin-cleansing biblical flood, is the Zoroastrian flood.

不可理解的巴比伦洪水和洗净罪恶的圣经洪水间，是琐罗亚斯德教的洪水。

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

耶和华用 40 天完成巴比伦诸神用 7 天完成的工作！

In the Babylonian stories of creation, we learn about the enormous snake Tiamat, which we've mentioned before.

巴比伦的创世故事中，我们解到一条巨大的蛇——亚马特，我们到过它。

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

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

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

甚至希波克拉底颂扬嗅尿的诊断优点，早期苏美尔人和巴比伦的内科医生已经进尿液相关的观察。

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。

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

泰勒斯巴比伦学习，受到巴比伦和埃及天文学的影响，这与宗教信仰密切相关。

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一幅完全不同的画面。

Well, the Babylonian and Sumerian scribes who wrote these used to be basically no system.

这些文献的巴比伦和苏美尔书记员们过去基本上是没有系统的。

World empires against empires Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian, which aspire to rule the world.

世界帝国对抗巴比伦、亚述、波斯和埃及等帝国，这些帝国都怀揣着统治世界的野心。

It's a small clay tablet written in ancient Babylonian script.

这是一块用古巴比伦文字书写的小小泥板。

The Babylonian Empire did invade the land.

巴比伦帝国确实入侵这片土地。

Assyrian Babylonian wasn't just a phonetic language.

亚述巴比伦语不仅仅是一种表音语言。

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这座城市。