Set Tripping 3500 BC?
Archaeologists Unearth a War Zone 5,500 Years Old
In Friday’s edition of the NY Times an article by John Wilford explains that archaeologists in northeastern Syria have uncovered the remains of an ancient city that in 3,500 B.C. fought a fierce battle. The site known as known as Tell Hamoukar sits on the upper fringes of the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, near the Iraq border and within sight of the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey. The Tell Hamoukar site is the oldest known excavated site of large-scale organized warfare. Tell Hamoukar has led to a reinterpretation of the spread of Mesopotamia’s urban culture in the fourth millennium B.C. It shows in some cases, the northern cities independently of the better-known early southern cultures. It was previously concluded that the culture had spread north through colonization, trade or conquest. For the new research shows that relations between north and south were not major conflict…
Architectural remians in Syria from fourth millenium B.C.
120 clay balls at Tell Hamoukar that were meant to be fired from slings... bullets hmm?
For the entire article click here
In Friday’s edition of the NY Times an article by John Wilford explains that archaeologists in northeastern Syria have uncovered the remains of an ancient city that in 3,500 B.C. fought a fierce battle. The site known as known as Tell Hamoukar sits on the upper fringes of the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys, near the Iraq border and within sight of the Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey. The Tell Hamoukar site is the oldest known excavated site of large-scale organized warfare. Tell Hamoukar has led to a reinterpretation of the spread of Mesopotamia’s urban culture in the fourth millennium B.C. It shows in some cases, the northern cities independently of the better-known early southern cultures. It was previously concluded that the culture had spread north through colonization, trade or conquest. For the new research shows that relations between north and south were not major conflict…
Architectural remians in Syria from fourth millenium B.C.
120 clay balls at Tell Hamoukar that were meant to be fired from slings... bullets hmm?For the entire article click here
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