Minutes and seconds are the verbal and written representations of an uncommon base-60 number system used in ancient Mesopotamia.
分和秒是古代美索不达米亚使用的一种不常见的60进制数字系统的口头和书面表达。
Some of the earliest human civilizations arose in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq, in the fourth millennium B.C..
一些最早的人类文明于公元前4000年出现在美索不达米亚南部,也就是现在的伊拉克南部。
The great civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the area we refer to as the Fertile Crescent, of which a little part here about the size of Rhode Island is Canaan.