Now this is the most exciting news I've read this week. I'm planning on rewriting some of my history papers on India and the Middle East in the next few months. The oldest ones were written back in 1991, so they don't mention recent archaeological discoveries. What I wanted the most was some non-textual evidence behind the Tower of Babel story, something that would show a connection between Genesis 10-11 and the Sumerian city-states of the third millennium B.C. If Tel Hamoukar was the site of one of Nimrod's battles, as Ciexyz seems to suggest, than this will work very nicely. Now I can propose that the Uruk/Erech pottery is from the Babel culture, and that artifacts from the Ubaidian culture, which immediately preceded it, were made by Noah's children and grandchildren. Thanks! :)
:') My pleasure. Of course (on a vaguely related note), I'm in agreement with Cyrus Gordon that Abraham's Ur was in the north, not the Ur in Sumeria.