Sentences with phrase «cuneiform texts»
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On these were written, in what is known as cuneiform, that is wedge - shaped characters, the texts they wished to communicate or preserve.
You see kids, back when I joined the online world in the ancient days of 1995 (you wouldn't BELIEVE how much of a pain it is to cram a cuneiform tablet into a modem), the internet was a much different realm — email existed, FTP existed, a few text - heavy websites existed, but a significant part of our social interaction took place in a huge and diverse set of discussion groups collectively called the Usenet.
In the service of astrology, Babylonian priests wrote instructional texts on cuneiform tablets, many of which still survive.
Holzer's contributions include three huge text - pieces carved on to stone (they are in Arabic, Roman and cuneiform scripts).