In 2000 Atlantic cod were caught throughout the Barents Sea.

2000年，在巴比伦海域捕获了大西洋鲟鱼。

It isn't known when people first started to observe the skies, but at around 650 BC, the Babylonians produced the first short-range weather forecasts, based on their observations of clouds and other phenomena.

人类第一次开始观测天空已不可知，但是大概在公元前650年，巴比伦人创造了第一个短期天气预报系统，基于他们对于云彩和其他现象的观察。

Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Colossus of Rhodes, State of Zeus at Olympia, Great Pyramid of Giza?

巴比伦空中花园，罗德岛巨像，奥林匹亚宙斯神像，还是 吉萨大金字塔？

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

事实上，它们从约4000年前的巴比伦代就已经存在了。

The fact that we have sixty minutes in an hour comes from the Babylonians.

我们每小有十分钟这个事实就是来于巴比伦人。

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

希腊、巴比伦、中国和印度的数学家都对它进行了估算。

The ancient Babylonian priests who spent a fair bit of time staring at the sky had already noted that there was an eighteen-year pattern in their recurrence, but they didn't have the mathematics to predict an eclipse accurately.

巴比伦的祭司们花了相当长的间盯着天空，已经注意到这种周期性的变化有一个18年的规律，但他们没有确预测日食的数学公式。

He led his band of horsemen down onto the plain of Babylon.

就这样，他率领骑兵队向巴比伦平原进发。

The ancient Babylonians inscribed their laws in stone in the Code of Hammurabi.

巴比伦人刊刻了汉谟拉比法典。

Hammurabi ruled the new kingdom of Babylon from 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE.

汉谟拉比统治巴比伦新王国。从公元前1792到公元前1750。

The Babylonians described a monster called Tiamat as the embodiment of chaos.

巴比伦人认为提亚玛特怪兽是混沌的化身。

Then ancient Babylonians started doing things like this.

然后巴比伦人开始做这样的事情。

But eventually they were conquered by the Babylonians, who took them away into exile.

但最终他们被巴比伦人征服，被掳到异乡。

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。

Then again, those Babylonians were working as a team.

不过，那些巴比伦人是团队合作的。

The blasts went off near the Babylon and Ishtar hotels, both have recently been renovated.

爆炸都是在即将午夜之发生的。爆炸发生在最近都刚装修过的巴比伦和伊师塔酒店附近。

Yeah. - But yeah, I can't turn off that side of my brain like as soon as I got to work actually on Babylon my first day, and I knew and I'm actually good friends with one of the producers on Babylon.

是的。- 但是，是的，我无法关闭我大脑的那一边，我第一天开始工作，我知道，我和《巴比伦》的一个制片人是好朋友。

The Babylonian 12-month calendar was adapted by other ancient cultures including the Romans who made vows to a two-faced deity that simultaneously looked back on the old year and forward to the new.

巴比伦的12个月历法被包括罗马人在内的其他代文化所改编，他向一位双面神发誓，同回顾过去，展望新的一年。

Diodorus claims that Amytis of Media, Nebuchadnezzar's wife, missed her homeland's mountains and flowers, and so he decreed that an artificial mountain, with all of her favorite flowers, be constructed in Babylon.

狄奥多罗斯声称，尼布甲尼撒的妻子，米底亚的阿米提斯，想念她家乡的山和花，所以他下令在巴比伦建造一座人造山，上面有她最喜欢的花。

According to the official statistics, about 15,000 pieces of cultural relics from the Stone Age, the Babylonian, Assyrian, and Islamic periods were stolen or destroyed by looters after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled by US-led troops in 2003.

据官方统计，2003 年萨达姆政权被美国领导的军队推翻后，大约有一万五千件石器代、巴比伦、亚述和伊斯兰期的文物被抢劫者偷走或摧毁。