Sentence examples for inscriptions that from inspiring English sources
Most Maya inscriptions that have been interpreted are calendrical inscriptions.
Many have inscriptions that are not only touching but also, by modern standards, verbose.
Their lives were lonely, and their children's graves carry inscriptions that suggest "distance and failure".
Stone churches are covered with inscriptions that are still clearly legible to anyone who can read Armenian.
These men compiled their researches into sillogi (anthologies of texts from Roman inscriptions) that provided models for square capital letters.
No translation and little context is offered for the inscriptions that are written on many of the pieces.
But much remains to be puzzled out from the immense body of carvings and inscriptions that has languished for centuries in jungle ruins and museum closets.
"Columna Rostrata," one of the ancient Latin inscriptions that make up "Tituli," becomes both brutal and crowded, recording as it does a lucrative Roman triumph over the Carthaginians.
On the whole, the few early Aramaic inscriptions that have been found belong to the 9th, 8th, and 7th centuries bce.
The almost 3,000 political inscriptions that survive from Pompeii tell us more about Roman elections than that they featured dirty tricks.
Compared with tablets, papyrus is fragile, yet an example is extant from 2500 bc; and stone inscriptions that are even older portray scribes with rolls.
