It recommended using geometric lines of latitude and longitude to convey a three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional surface, and it included the co-ordinates of over 8,000 locations in the ancient world.

它告诉人们如何用经纬线这样几何线条在二维平面上表现出三维地球来，书中还有古代世界8000多个地点坐标。

I'll try, Neil, but the only thing I know about the Silk Roads is that they were the ancient routes along which people travelled the Earth.

我试试，内尔，但是我对丝绸之路一了解就是它们是人们游览世界古代路线。

So far we have only taken a brief glimpse at the world of Norse mythology.

到目前为止，我们只对古代北欧神话世界有一个粗浅印象。

Paints of just about every color were available in the ancient world.

古代世界几乎可以买到各种颜色颜料。

Firstly it's because of statues which now are white, but at the time would mostly have been painted in quite bright colors, but this has kind of tainted our idea of what the ancient world looked like.

首先，这是因为雕像现在是白色，但在当，大部分都被漆成非常鲜艳颜色，但这有点玷污了我们对古代世界看法。

At the time, they were one of the ancient world's great powers.

当，他们是古代世界强国之一。

It's about the wonders of the world—ancient as well as modern.

它是关于古代和现代世界奇迹。

A University of Massachusetts professor interviewed by National Public Radio described the find as a " Lamborghini" of the ancient world.

马萨诸塞州大学一位教授在接受美国国家播电台采访说，这一发现是古代世界“兰博基尼”。

Located in the southern Aegean region of Turkey, Bodrum was once home to the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

博德鲁姆位于土耳其爱琴海地区南部，曾是古代世界七大奇迹之一摩索拉斯陵墓所在地。

Perhaps their greatest achievement was to make their capital city Alexandria into the most brilliant metropolis of the Greek-speaking world for centuries it was second only to Rome.

这个王朝最伟大成就，也许就是把首都亚历山大港建成了古代世界最辉煌城市之一。在好几百年间，它都是仅次于罗马世界第二大都市。

In fact, people used salt as a method of payment in many parts of the ancient world. The word " salary" comes from the word " salt."

事实上，在古代世界很多地方，人们使用盐来作为支付手段，salary(工资)这个词就来自salt(盐)。

Her famed beauty and charm led to one of the most celebrated romances in history — and the Ancient world's ultimate tragedy.

她举世闻名美貌和魅力造就了历史上最著名爱情故事之一，也造就了古代世界终极悲剧。

But when the Huns and Germanic peoples began their invasions of the Italian peninsula, it generated one of the ancient world's greatest refugee crises.

但当匈奴人和日耳曼人开始入侵意大利半岛，它引发了古代世界其中一次最大难民危机。

The sun of the king, Alexander the great, was the military leader who created one of the largest empires in the ancient world.

太阳王，亚历山大大帝，是创造了古代世界上最大帝国之一军事领袖。

Today we learned that gods in the ancient Mediterranean world seemed highly ambivalent about their creations, especially humans, but ESPECIALLY creeping things.

今天我们了解到，古代地中海世界神灵似乎对他们所造之物（尤其是人类，但特别是爬行动物）感情非常矛盾。

Considered a wonder of the ancient world, the pyramids of Egypt are not on the list of new world wonders.

埃及金字塔被认为是古代世界奇迹，但没有被列入新世界奇迹名单。

500 years of trading via the sea established the Phoenicians as one of the greatest trading powers of the ancient world.

500 年海上贸易使腓尼基人成为古代世界最大贸易强国之一。

Given the modern-day stats on the wealth gap, they'll probably uncover a society even more unequal than the ancient Old World.

考虑到当代贫富差距统计数据，他们可能会发现一个比古代世界更不平等社会。

" And a greater because modern, " she added. " How can the Old World heroes compare with ours" ?

" 因为是当代，所以更伟大，" 她接下去说，" 古代世界英雄跟我们英雄哪儿能比！"

Frankincense was used by the Romans in absolutely vast quantities, and was the principal form of incense in the ancient world.

罗马人大量使用乳香，它是古代世界最主要香料。