[blam]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[SunkenCiv]

another site in Syria:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hamoukar

[william clark]

Aren't those the guys who had it in for Frodo?

[GreenLanternCorps]

Be careful, somewhere in that city is where Helen Thomas went to high school...

[Nathan Zachary]

The discovery, based on pottery fragments and other ceramics found

So, they find a broken pot, and call it a city? It was probably a pot stolen from the museum in Baghdad. They sure jump to conclusions quick, don't they...

Maybe it's the lost city of Aad (which never existed) Mohammad mentions in his koran.

[kAcknor]

The Spanish scientists hope to find evidence of the beginning of agriculture

Simple. Just look for the first brewery.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I think that in terms of "cities" and "civilization" the city of Ur in ancient Sumer is still the champ, having hit its cultural peak at about 4,500 B.C.