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

我不是在开玩笑，很多楔字记录都是关于小麦和山羊。

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

而现在，那些雕像和楔字铭已经化为碎片，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年历史物上刻有完整楔字，这是世界上最古字式。

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

用该地区常见楔字写在泥板上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，称为楔字早期字系统变成了字。

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

不久之后，该地区人们发明了楔字。

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

你不会还在用楔字和字吧？

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内容，包括楔字。

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博物馆楔字专家。

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

他们在古代一个“图书馆”中发现了这些楔字，但那实际上并不能算是一个真正图书馆。

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

许多物都有楔字例子，楔字是已知最早书写系统之一。

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

伊拉克研究人员在美索不达米亚库尔德卡比斯坦遗址发现了刻有楔字泥板。

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

他们君主派出信使，携带刻有楔字陶土板。

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，一块苏美尔楔字泥板记录了12种药物配方，其中包括植物来源。

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字碎片。

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

呃，这些楔字符号，基本上讲述是同样故事。

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字泥板主要原因。

Talk a little about a bit about the cuneiform.

说说关于楔字一些事情。

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独立发明是历史上最古书写系统，苏美尔楔字（图12.1）。