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在泥的文字没有报告发生了什么。

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

而现在，那些雕像和楔形文字铭文已碎片，暴露在自然界中。

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

几百年后，称楔形文字的早期象形文字系统变成了文字。

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

许多文物有楔形文字的例子，楔形文字是已知最早的书写系统之一。

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在湿泥，情就此解决。

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

人们在那里也多次挖掘出有楔形文字的泥，它们所讲述的故跟《圣》里的故十分相似。

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

一些新来者仰望苏美尔人，采用他们的生活方式，用楔形文字来表达自己的语言。

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

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； 一个是常规楔形文字， 另一个是黑印章， 我意识到我的任务已完成。

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.

这个故还有不同的版本，并且仍然有新的楔形文字被发现，所以吉尔伽美什的故还没有被完全讲述。

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.

美索不达米亚人带给了我们书写，特别是一种叫做楔形文字的书写。它们最初的目的不是了记录爱情故，而是了记录交易，比如多少的麦子换了多少只羊。