Phrases d'exemple en Anglais avec « babylonians »

Thales used the astronomical records of the Babylonians and Egyptians to accurately predict a solar eclipse in the sixth century BC.

The Babylonians counted in base 60.

The Babylonians thought the Milky Way was the tail of their goddess Tiamat.

The Assyrian student, moreover, has an advantage which the Hebrew student has not; he possesses dictionaries and vocabularies compiled by the Assyro-Babylonians themselves, and these frequently throw light on a word which otherwise would be a “hapax legomenon.”