[Little Bill]

The initial report of this dig was posted here a few years ago this is a follow up.

[Little Bill]

Brotherly love ping, read the full article very good,

[Lonely Bull]

Uruk, hi!

[DefeatCorruption]

Wow, just yesterday I was reading about this massacre in my Doctor's waiting room (Discover Magazine) and was haunted by it....basically nothing has changed since the dawn of civilization. Didn't think to look at the magazine's date.

[bunkerhill7]

So, if the invading army was from Uruk, did they kill their own people? If so why?

Answer: They were killed under Sumerian Obummercare because they couldn`t afford any health insurance and no money to pay the fine for not having any.

[chopperman]

Is this a ‘Burgh’ thing?

[SunkenCiv]

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[ApplegateRanch]

if the invading army was from Uruk, did they kill their own people? If so why?

Fair question, as is: why did Sherman burn 'from Atlanta to the sea'; or why did the British burn Washington?

Civil wars and rebellions and their aftermaths somehow seem to have a way of being 'people killing their 'own' people'...can't imaging how that comes about, but it may be an answer to look for here. *<];-)

I also read the original, and then, as well as now, am intrigued by the 'clay bullets', as if the Middle East doesn't have enough stones to use. Never seems to be any shortage for the Palis to throw at Joooz; or Muslims to use for stoning women.

[1010RD]

archaeologists have found obsidian workshops spread across 280 hectares.

Who writes this stuff? Are they describing a massive and connected industrial center or scattered and small workshops spread over 700 acres?

[colorado tanker]

They have found evidence that an Uruk colony near Hamoukar was also destroyed in this conflict.

They got beat by a more experienced army because they were Urukies.

[Larry Lucido]

Statute of limitations. Next case!