A team of researchers -- excavating a 2,700 year old temple at the ancient city of Tayinat in southeastern Turkey -- have discovered evidence that its inhabitants prominently displayed a tablet which bore a pledge of loyalty to the heir of an Assyrian king... Professor Tim Harrison of the University of Toronto... leads the Tayinat excavations. The city itself was built on the Amuq plain, on the Orontes River near the modern day Syrian border... a sort of crossroads that connected Anatolia, Mesopotamia and the Levant -- allowing Tayinat to flourish. The Assyrian Empire conquered it in 738 BC, with...