A serpent was an important god for ancient Mayans.

蛇是古代玛雅人重要神灵。

It's a compromise between ancient literary dialects.

它是几种古代文读音杂糅。这个观点学界仍有争论。

Many modern palaeontologists try to do something similar, except that what they reconstruct is behaviour.

现代古生物学家除了重现古代动物行为外，也在尝试做着同样事情。

Japan is a truly timeless place where ancient traditions view seamlessly with modern life.

日本确是一个不受时间影响地方，古代传统影子在现代生活中随处可见。

So they wrote about contemporary merchants and tradesmen instead of ancient nobles and gods.

所以他们笔下人物都是当代商人 而不是古代贵族和神。

The complex style of the medieval wooden church carvings and the skills used to make them almost certainly derive from the ancient Viking tradition.

几乎可以肯定地，中世纪木制教堂雕刻复杂风格及雕刻巧衍生于古代维京人传统。

And as we all know, the ancient architecture there is breathtaking.

我们都知道，那儿古代建筑令人惊叹不已。

The ancient oceans were steamed out of the interior by erupting volcanoes.

古代海洋是由火山喷发而形成。

It was moved here by powerful ancient glaciers.

它被强大古代冰川移动到了这里。

It makes sense. That sounds like an ancient African rhyme!

终于懂了，听着像古代非洲！

The findings prove that ancient poop is flush ... with details about ancient civilizations.

研究结果证明，古代粪便中充满了古代文明细节。

The Great Pyramid isn't only the oldest, it's the only Wonder in the Ancient World that still mostly intact.

吉萨大金字塔不仅仅是古老而且还是保存最完好古代奇迹。

The Emperor Shennong of China was boiling water in his garden and a leaf from a tea tree fell into his pot.

中国古代炎帝神农氏有一次在他园子里煮水喝，然后一片叶子从一颗茶树上掉落到了他煮水罐子里。

This actually dates back to ancient methods of trying to predict the weather.

这实际上可以追溯到古代试图预测天气方法。

Yes. It comes from a shellfish, and it was worn in ancient times.

是，它取自于一种贝类，古代时候有人穿。

When they flew Fengzheng in the air, the wind blew the whistle and made a sound much like that produced by Zheng, an ancient musical instrument, which was very pleasant to the ear.

这样当风筝放飞时，风吹响哨子，发出类似筝（一种古代悦耳乐器）声音。

While they may look like random markings on a rock, if these are the remains of an ancient animal, it would push the first physical evidence of animals on this planet back by 300 million years.

虽然它们看起来像是岩石上随意划痕，但如果这些真是古代动物遗迹，它将把地球上动物存在物理证据向前推进3亿年。

The inscriptions on the ancient monuments have been effaced by time.

古代石碑上文字，已经因时间长久而磨蚀去。

He tells us how in the 1970s a scientist called Carl Woese identified a new kingdom of living things that he called archaea– meaning ancient ones.

在20世纪70年代，一位名叫卡尔·乌斯科学家是如何发现古生菌这一新生物王国，archaea是指古代生物。

Either way, you're about to see how to make these beautiful mooncakes and how they came to be an iconic part of the Mid-Autumn Festival from the famous ancient Chinese myth.

接下来我将向大家展示这些精美月饼制作过程，以及它们是如何从著名中国古代神话中走来，演变为中秋节标志性美食。