English example sentences with "Babylonian"

But who really invented the stories nobody knows; it is all so long ago, long before reading and writing were invented. The first of the stories actually written down, were written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, or on Babylonian cakes of clay, three or four thousand years before our time.

Archeologists have discovered that ancient Babylonian astronomers were able to predict the motion of Jupiter across the sky.

Scientists have discovered that a 3700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet was in fact the world's oldest trigonometric table.

This ancient Babylonian trigonometric table is in some respects superior to modern trigonometry.

They gave their baby a name derived from an ancient Babylonian word which meant "first light".

The intercalation of additional months was due to the fact that the Babylonian months were lunar.

Last month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced its first recovery of looted cultural property from Iraq: 8 ancient Babylonian seals, 4,000 to 5,000 years old.

The Babylonian Talmud is considered more authoritative than the Jerusalemite Talmud.

Yemenite Hebrew is the closest living tradition to Tiberian Hebrew, though it actually comes from the similar Babylonian Hebrew.