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

事实上，它们从约4000年前的比伦时代就已经存在了。

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.

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

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时发生的。爆炸发生在最近都刚装修过的比伦和伊店附近。

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，我第一天开始工作时，我知道，我和《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.

比伦的12个月历法被包括罗马人在内的古代文化所改编，向一位双面神发誓，同时回顾过去，展望新的一年。

If you go back to classical antiquity you tend to find that other systems were more predominant, the sexagesimal system of the Babylonians for example.

如果你回到古典时期，你会发体系更占优势，例如比伦人的六十进制。

Modern scholars have suggested that the gardens were actually located in the city of Niniveh, constructed during the reign of Sennacherib, and ancient historians confused the descriptions of Babylon and Niniveh.

代学者认为，这些花园实际上位于尼尼微市，建于西拿基立统治时期，而古代历史学家混淆了对比伦和尼尼微的描述。

It's quite difficult to tell exactly how representative Egyptian mathematics is in the early second millennium BC.The only evidence we've got to compare it with at the same time is from Babylonia, southern Iraq.

目前唯一能与之比较的物件来自与它同时代的比伦，位于今伊拉克南部。

Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, Manasseh the father of Amon, Amon the father of Josiah, and Josiah the father of Jeconiah and his brothers at the time of the exile to Babylon.

希西家生玛拿西．玛拿西生亚们．亚们生约西亚． 百姓被迁到比伦的时候、约西亚生耶哥尼雅和的弟兄。

The Babylonian 12-month calendar was adopted 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.

比伦的 12 个月历法被包括罗马人在内的古代文化所改编，向一位双面神发誓，同时回顾过去，展望新的一年。

Fast-forward to around 1,000 years ago, and since people were using round things to keep track of time, astronomers were all about this weird base-60 number system from the Babylonians.

快进到大约 1000 年前，由于人们用圆形的东西来记录时间，天文学家们都在研究比伦人这个奇怪的 60 进制数字系统。

One of the records Tapputi left behind is a recipe for a salve she made for the Babylonian king, an ointment that contained water, flowers, oil, and calamus.

Tapputi 留下的记录之一是她为比伦国王制作的药膏配方，这种药膏含有水、花、油和芦苇。

" Out of hundreds of thousands of cuneiform documents, they are the only food recipes that exist" says Agnete Lassen, associate curator of the Yale Babylonian collection.

耶鲁大学比伦收藏的副馆长阿格内特·拉森说：“在数十万份楔形文字文献中，它们是唯一存在的食谱。”

This tablet shows us that Babylonian surveying became a lot more accurate during this time, which is understandable because people are starting to own land privately.

这块泥板告诉我们，比伦的测量在这段时间变得更加准确，这是可以理解的，因为这时候人们开始拥有私人土地。

In Biblical Babylon, King Nebuchadnezzar kept a dragon in the temple of the god Bel and suggested that Daniel, a noble youth of Jerusalem, worship it.

在《圣经》中的比伦，尼布甲尼撒王在贝尔神庙里养了一条龙，并建议耶路撒冷的贵族青年但以理崇拜它。

It appears in The Bible and in The Code of Hammurabi, a set of laws written by the ancient Babylonian king of that name.

它出在《圣经》和《汉谟拉比法典》中，《汉谟拉比法典》是一套由同名的古比伦国王制定的法律。

The mythical Hanging Gardens of Babylon are often imagined as a stepped palace of terraces containing numerous trees, shrubs and exotic flowers.

比伦神话中的空中花园，人们通常将想象成阶梯状的梯田宫殿，中包括许多树木、灌木和奇花异草。

And, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.

哪怕们坐在比伦的河边哭泣，也会找出理由为使们流泪的压迫作辩解。

I think one of the earliest versions we have of it is the Babylonian, the Assyrian version, that definitely predates Noah.

我认为最早的版本之一是比伦的，亚述的版本，那肯定要早于诺亚。

Art from ancient Egypt and Babylon also showed detailed depictions of wrestlers doing moves and holds still used today.

古埃及和比伦的艺术作品上也有对摔跤手的详细描绘，们的动作和姿势沿用至今。