Grisly Human Sacrifice Revealed at Syria Dig

Discovery News ^ | July 2, 2008 | Jennifer Viegas

[forkinsocket]

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[dynachrome]

Circus of the Stars old style?

[toddlintown]

Proves they were animmals even back then.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

Evidence that Islam preceeded Judaism. /sarc

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Guess the ancients took their ‘Reality’ shows a bit more seriously than we do.

[donna]

Joan Oates, lead author of the paper, and her colleagues were struck by the arrangement of three human bodies in the reception and main office portion of the ancient building. They describe the skeletal layout as "unusual, indeed strange."

Sounds like chick-talk to me. Women don't always pick the logical explanation.

[Little Bill]

A PHD in need of a punch in the published world, BS.

[PGR88]

Thank God for modern civilization.

[AndrewB]

I'm here to tell ya....That guy was amazing! Too bad he had to go...

[ClearCase_guy]

several rare horse-like animals

Huh?

[r_barton]

Where did you get the picture of JoJo the Dwarf? ;-)

[MARTIAL MONK]

Thank God for modern civilization.

Especially if you're an acrobat.

[Sherman Logan]

Article didn’t have any further explanation, but I suspect these were onagers, a wild ass that was apparently (sort of) domesticated before horses or donkeys.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ll buy that. I don’t know why they couldn’t just come out and say it. Onagers are not especially bizarre. The article made me think they had found a hippogriff or something.

[Sherman Logan]

There are numerous early Sumerian references to onagers, although some think they were just ordinary asses.

(Pardon my French.)

I find this interesting because it seems onagers are more or less untameable, while asses and horses obviously are, the difference presumably being purely genetic.

[seowulf]

Mimes should still take care though.

[AndrewB]

Mon Dieu!

[onedoug]

Ahem... Torah.

[Billthedrill]

Jason Ur, a Harvard University anthropologist...

Well, that's one heckuva a name for a Mesopotamia specialist...BTT

[BipolarBob]

Yes, the code words when they attacked were “Torah, Torah, Torah”.