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

我开玩笑，很多楔形文字记录的都关于小麦和山羊的。

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

而现，那些雕像和楔形文字铭文已经化为碎片，暴露自然界中。

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

这件有2800年历史的文物上刻有完整的楔形文字，这世界上最古老的文字形式。

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文字写泥板上的文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，称为楔形文字的早期象形文字系变成了文字。

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

许多文物都有楔形文字的例子，楔形文字已知最早的书写系之一。

Ashurbanipal’s library took the form of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform in the languages of Akkadian and Sumerian.

Ashurbanipal 的图书馆采用粘土板的形式，上面刻有阿卡德语和苏美尔语的楔形文字。

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

抄写员用楔形文字将新合同记录湿泥板上，事情就此解决。

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历史上最古老的书写系，苏美尔楔形文字（图12.1）。

They look to me like a kind of cuneiform character, a good deal altered, but this of course is impossible.

我，们就像一种楔形文字， 经过大量改动， 但这当然可能的。

A number of clay tablets have been dug up, inscribed with cuneiform script telling a story very similar to the one in the Bible.

人们那里也多次挖掘出有楔形文字的泥板，们所讲述的故事跟《圣经》里的故事十分相似。

Some newcomers looked up to the Sumerians, adopting their way of life and using the cuneiform script to express their own languages.

一些新者仰望苏美尔人，采用他们的生活方式，用楔形文字表达自己的语言。

" Out of hundreds of thousands of cuneiform documents, they are the only food recipes that exist" says Agnete Lassen, associate curator of the Yale Babylonian collection.

耶鲁大学巴比伦收藏的副馆长阿格内特·拉森说：“数十万份楔形文字文献中，们唯一存的食谱。”

In 2017, for example, a consignment of ancient Iraqi cuneiform tablets they had purchased was found to have been smuggled into the US as " tile samples" .

例如， 2017 年，他们购买的一批古代伊拉克楔形文字片被发现作为 “瓷砖样品” 走私进入美国。

Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern Mexico.

除了苏美尔楔形文字外，人类历史上另一个独立的文字起源实例自中美洲的美洲原住民社会，可能墨西哥南部。

Before the spread of alphabetic writing, systems making much use of logograms were more common and included Egyptian hieroglyphs, Maya glyphs, and Sumerian cuneiform.

字母文字传播之前，大量使用语标的系更为常见，包括埃及象形文字、玛雅文字和苏美尔楔形文字。

There were two inscriptions; one in the regular cuneiform character, another in the character of the Black Seal, and I realized that my task was accomplished.

有两个铭文； 一个常规楔形文字， 另一个黑印章， 我意识到我的任务已经完成。

The symbols, which we now know as  cuneiform writing, were from not only the first known empire but also one of the  first known civilizations – the Sumerians.

这些符号，也就我们现所知的楔形文字，仅自已知的第一个帝国，也自最早已知的文明之一——苏美尔人。

There are different versions of this story and new cuneiform tablets with previously missing parts of the story are still being discovered, so the story of Gilgamesh hasn't been fully told yet.

这个故事还有同的版本，并且仍然有新的楔形文字板被发现，所以吉尔伽美什的故事还没有被完全讲述。

Mesopotamia gave us writing, specifically a form of writing called cuneiform, which was initially created not to like woo lovers or whatever but to record transactions like how many bushels of wheat were exchanged for how many goats.

美索达米亚人带给了我们书写，特别一种叫做楔形文字的书写。们最初的目的为了记录爱情故事，而为了记录交易，比如多少的麦子换了多少只羊。