Sentences with phrase «cuneiform carvings»

(2 Kings 2:23 - 24) But I think I'll stick with my old favorites: 5000 year old clay tablets with cuneiform carvings.

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Gangs of looters, numbering sometimes in the hundreds, have pilfered cylinder seals, sculptures, urns, bronze tools, clay tablets with cuneiform writing, and even reliefs carved into walls — all to supply an illegal international trade in antiquities that stretches from Taiwan to New York.

Here is why in a nutshell: Ebooks are basically HTML, and not advanced web2.0 / webapp / skynet HTML, but stripped - down, carved in a stone slab as Cuneiform kind of HTML — no layers, limited positioning, tricky - to - non-existent font embedding... It's barbarian by web design standards.

Holzer's contributions include three huge text - pieces carved on to stone (they are in Arabic, Roman and cuneiform scripts).