I'm not kidding, by the way; a lot of cuneiform is about wheat and goats.

我不是在开玩，楔形字记录的都是关于小麦和山羊的。

The statues, the cuneiform inscriptions now lie in pieces exposed to the elements.

而现在，那些雕像和楔形字铭已经化为碎片，暴露在自然界中。

The 2,800-year-old artifact is inscribed with complete cuneiform text, the world's oldest form of writing.

这件有2800年历史的上刻有完整的楔形字，这是世界上最古老的字形式。

Texts written on clay tablets using the cuneiform writing common in the area did not report what happened.

用该地区常见的楔形字写在泥板上的字没有报告发生了什么。

After a few hundred years, the early pictogram system called cuneiform turned into a script.

几百年后，称为楔形字的早期象形字系统变成了字。

Soon after, the peoples of the region developed cuneiform writing.

不久之后，该地区的人们发明了楔形字。

You're not still using cuneiform and hieroglyphics, are you?

你不会还在用楔形字和象形字吧？

And we did a kind of week on ancient Mesopotamia, including cuneiform.

我们做了一期关于古代美索不达米亚的内容，包括楔形字。

We've had a cuneiform expert from the British museum on this program.

我们这个节目曾邀请过大英的楔形字专家。

They found these cuneiforms in an ancient library, but it was not really a library.

他们在古代的一个“图书”中发现了这些楔形字，但那实际上并不能算是一个真正的图书。

Many of the artifacts have examples of cuneiform, one of the earliest known systems of writing.

许都有楔形字的例子，楔形字是已知最早的书写系统之一。

Researchers in Iraq have found clay tablets containing cuneiform writing at the Mesopotamian site of Kurdkabirstan.

伊拉克的研究人员在美索不达米亚的库尔德卡比斯坦遗址发现了刻有楔形字的泥板。

Messengers were sent out by their sovereigns with terracotta or clay tablets that were inscribed with cuneiform characters.

他们的君主派出信使，携带刻有楔形字的陶土板。

In Context Before Circa 2400 BCE, a Sumerian cuneiform tablet records 12 recipes for drugs including plant sources.

在公元前约2400年之前，一块苏美尔楔形字泥板记录了12种药配方，其中包括植来源。

I, you know, every once in a while, somebody would come up with a little fragment of cuneiform.

我嘛，你知道，偶尔有人会找到一小块楔形字的碎片。

Uh, these cuneiform symbols, like basically telling the same stories.

呃，这些楔形字符号，基本上讲述的是同样的故事。

The scribe records the new contract in cuneiform into a wet clay tablet, and the matter is settled.

抄写员用楔形字将新合同记录在湿泥板上，事情就此解决。

So that was the kind of primary, you know, force behind my utter love of the cuneiform tablets.

所以那就是我深深热爱楔形字泥板的主要原因。

Talk a little about a bit about the cuneiform.

说说关于楔形字的一些事情。

The independent invention that we can trace in greatest detail is history's oldest writing system, Sumerian cuneiform (Figure 12.1).

我们可以最详细地追溯的独立发明是历史上最古老的书写系统，苏美尔楔形字（图12.1）。