Well, that was the case until the Assyrians came along, anyway.

反正亚述人来的时候，情况就是这样的，的情况下， 来了，反正。亚述人有一个当之无愧。

In 671 BC they forced Taharqo to flee south to his native Kush.

公元前六七一年，亚述人迫使他逃回了故土库施。

Ashurbanipal built his massive collection largely through the places that he conquered.

亚述巴帕的大量收藏主要是通他征服的地方建立起来的。

In the 6th century BC, both the Assyrians and the Greeks used to poison wells.

公元前六世纪 亚述人和希腊人都曾用。

The most important of these were the Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Assyrians.

最重要的部族是苏美尔人、巴比伦亚人和亚述人。

Also the neo-Assyrians loved to find would-be rebels and lop off their appendages.

此外，新亚述人喜欢寻的叛乱分子然后砍掉他们的肢体。

So what happened to the Assyrians?

所以亚述人到底发生了什么事呢？

But this challenge to the Assyrian war machine ultimately led to Taharqo's downfall.

但对亚述战争机器的挑战导致的最终结局是塔哈尔卡的垮台。

Sennacherib-whose stone reliefs were the subject of the last programme.

这一富有侵略性的政策导致了与亚述王西拿基立的冲突。

22 The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.

22 闪的子孙：厄蓝、亚述、阿帕革沙得、路得和阿兰。

Particularly their noses for some reason.

出于某种原因，新亚述人特别喜欢割掉他们的鼻子。

I've made a suggestion, the site has been, well it had many layers on top of the Assyrian things.

我已经提出我的意见，遗址已经.....它在亚述人的物体顶端上部覆盖了很多层。

The tablets uncovered in Nineveh were part of the library of the Assyrian king, Ashurbanipal.

在微发现的石板是亚述国王亚述巴拔图书馆的一部分。

Ashkenazi Jews for instance are vulnerable to Tay-Sachs.

例如， 亚述犹太人易感泰桥氏症。

They were wedged between the Assyrian Empire to the north and Egypt in the south.

北部是亚述帝国， 南部是埃及。

Egypt, Assyria and Greece -in one fascinating morning.

埃及、亚述和希腊——在一个迷人的早晨。

The most common iconography on ivory plaques are lions, sphinxes and winged goddesses which shows the Egyptian and Assyrian influences.

象牙牌匾上最常见的肖像是狮子、狮身人面像和有翼女神，显示了埃及和亚述的影响。

But the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians couldn't know that, and so they thought some strange magic must lie behind it.

是这个事实，古代巴比伦亚人和亚述人不知道，所以他们认为，其中必有某种神秘的魔术。

In 722 BC, the capital Samaria fell to the Assyrian empire.

公元前 722 年， 首都撒马利亚被亚述帝国攻陷。

Assyrian kings showed off their power in battle...and by hunting lions.

亚述国王在战斗中炫耀他们的力量… … 并通猎杀狮子。