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TPO63听力Lecture3原文：

Listen to part of a lecture in an ancient history class. The professor has been discussing the Sumerians and the Akkadians, two ancient peoples from an area that’s in modern-day Iraq.

So far we’ve been focusing on the written record of the Sumerians and the Akkadians, like the cuneiform inscriptions in those slides last week. To see how historians work with archaeologists and linguists to put together the pieces of the puzzle. What do these ancient symbols mean? What do they tell us about ancient peoples?

We’ve seen how these ancient texts shed light on social institutions, such as legal systems, like the Hammurabi Code, practical aspects of everyday life, such as farming and irrigation methods, as well as religious and artistic texts.

Now we’ll be discussing ancient texts when we move to Egypt to see how the hieroglyphics, the Egyptians’ first writing system, reveal to us the foundations of their civilization.But before we leave the Akkadians, I want to take a minute to let you hear what some of their texts sounded like in the original language, which obviously is no longer spoken, or at least what linguists think it sounded like. Now this is based on somewhat speculative and fairly recent research, but it should give you some idea of what the ancient language sounded like.

Okay, so I bought this really interesting tape, it’s a recording of Akkadian texts, mostly fragments of myths and poetry, but also practical topics like…

Let’s see, the first reading is, ok, this one is about agriculture, it’s actually from a 4000-year-old farmers’ manual with advice on growing barley. And then, yes, George, did you have a question?

I was just wondering, I mean, it’s really cool that you guys have figured out what it sounds like and all, but I don’t get why would you all care so much about a language nobody speaks anymore. It’s not like you have to learn how to say, oh, I don’t know, which way to the airport.

Okay. George, I see what you are going with that, and that’s a really good question, especially since that selection from the farmers’ manual is probably not the best example of why all this should interest you.

Of course, I’m fascinated, but then that's my profession. I guess the more important reason has to do with our appreciation of ancient literature, the myths and poetry. Now that’s something that really is important to hear as well as read since...well, for the Akkadians, as for most early civilizations, the literature was mainly an oral tradition, you have to understand that back then that writing, like engraving into stone, was an expensive and laborious process.

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