Sentences with 'cuneiform'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cuneiform and other words derived from it.
• « Their style of writing is called cuneiform; it began as a pictographic system in which each word or idea was represented by a symbol, but eventually changed to include both pictograms and syllabic symbols (i.e. symbols representing a sound rather than a word). »
• « Suffice it to say about the importance of this discovery that these cities are as old, or perhaps older, than those of Mesopotamia, with which there was an obvious link, as evidenced by the cuneiform signs on the clay slabs. »