Mesopotamian kings recorded and interpreted their dreams on wax tablets.

美索不达米亚国王在蜡质石板上记录并解释了他们的梦。

The tablet features Kenya form inscriptions in Sumerian, the language of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization.

这块石碑以苏美尔语铭文的肯尼亚为特色，苏美尔语是美索不达米亚古代文明的语言。

This ancient Mesopotamian tale is possibly the oldest known work of literature, and yet the story remains compelling today.

这个美索不达米亚的古老故事，可能是目前已知最早的文学作品，但至今这个故事仍然十分吸引人。

This programme's object is a piece of clay, made just over five thousand years ago in a Mesopotamian city.

在一块制作于五千年前的美索不达米亚的黏土板上，有我们已知的最早的文字。

I'm Shamash, the Mesopotamian god of judgment, and today we're gathered to witness this year's clash of stunning speed.

我是沙玛什，美索不达米亚的审判之神，今天我们聚集在一起共同见证今年令人惊叹的速度之战。

In particular, the Mesopotamian understood Pythagorean triples at a level of sophistication that we never expected.

特别是美索不达米亚人对毕达哥拉斯三元组理解的复杂程度，是我们从未预料到的。

Representations of figures are deeply embedded in Mesopotamian culture: there could be no ban on them.

不可能被禁。

It was inspired by ancient Mesopotamian benches and Egyptian tombs.

它的灵感来自古代美索不达米亚长椅和埃及墓葬。

Some say that Zozo is a demon, possibly even the ancient Mesopotamian king of wind demons, Pazuzu.

有人说 Zozo 是恶魔，甚至可能是古代美索不达米亚风魔王 Pazuzu。

Like most tribal Arabs worshipped gods very similar to the Mesopotamian gods you’ll remember from episode 3.

像大多数部落阿拉伯人一样，崇拜与美索不达米亚诸神非常相似的神，你会记得第 3 集。

Between 7 million and 10 million stroll through the Louvre's halls every years, marveling at everything from Mesopotamian artifacts to the Mona Lisa.

每年有700万到1000万的人漫步在卢浮宫的大厅里，惊叹于从美索不达米亚的艺术品到蒙娜丽莎的一切。

Each Mesopotamian city was ruled by a patron deity, so her hymns were dedicated to the ruling god of each major city.

每个美索不达米亚城市都由一位守护神统治，因此她的赞美诗献给每个主要城市的统治神。

The rise of the Akkadian Empire, which  united the Semites and the Sumerians, was a stark turning point in Mesopotamian  history.

将闪米特人和苏美尔人联合起来的阿卡德帝国的崛起是美索不达米亚历史上的一个鲜明转折点。

The inventions and innovations of the Sumerians were adopted by other Mesopotamian cultures by the 7th century BCE, and Babylon became famous for its astronomers and astrologers.

公元前 7 世纪，苏美尔人的发明和创新被其他美索不达米亚文化所采用，巴比伦以其天文学家和占星家而闻名。

Take the " Epic of Gilgamesh." This ancient Mesopotamian tale is possibly the oldest known work of literature, and yet the story remains compelling today.

以《吉尔伽美什史诗》为例。这个古老的美索不达米亚故事可能是已知最古老的文学作品，但这个故事在今天仍然引人入胜。

We’ve approached religions as historical phenomena — thinking about how, for instance, the capricious environment of Mesopotamia led to a capricious cadre of Mesopotamian gods.

我们将宗教视为历史现象——想想， 例如，美索不达米亚反复无常的环境如何导致了反复无常的美索不达米亚诸神。

These new Mesopotamian city states were similar to their predecessors in that they had temples and writing and their own self-glorifying stories but they were different in some important ways.

这些新的美索不达米亚城邦和他们的前任一样，有庙宇、文字，还有自我赞美的故事，他们在一些很重要的方面却不一样。

He entered the House of Dust, the shadowy Mesopotamian underworld where the spirits of the dead knelt eternally on the ground, eating dirt and drinking stone.

他进入了尘埃之屋，这是阴暗的美索不达米亚地下世界，死者的灵魂永远跪在地上，吃土喝石。

The thick walls of Mesopotamian mud-brick houses, designed to mitigate the desert's extremes, or the passive cooling techniques employed in ancient Egyptian dwellings, are testaments to this.

美索不达米亚泥砖房屋的厚墙（旨在缓解沙漠的极端气候）或古埃及住宅中采用的被动冷却技术都证明了这一点。

It is thought that this particular flood myth influenced the others in the Mesopotamian region, including the Gilgamesh flood myth and the Genesis Flood myth found in the Hebrew Bible in the Christian Old Testament.

人们认为，这个特殊的洪水神话影响了美索不达米亚地区的其他洪水神话，包括《吉尔伽美什史诗》里的洪水神话和基督教旧约希伯来圣经中的《创世纪的洪水》。