>Archaeologists have found a 4,500-year-old circular city has that was buried on the banks of the Euphrates river, in the Syrian region of Tall Qabr.

According to a news report, among the artifacts uncovered at the site was a collection of ceramics that will allow researchers to understand life and culture from a place for which little information is available.

Archaeologists also found a stamp of great artistic beauty, probably belonging to one of the city’s dignitaries.

According to the archaeologists involved in the discovery, “the city could represent the passage from the rural cycle to the urban cycle, in other words the first cities in history and show the border of the Mari kingdom, the ancient rivals of Babylonia.”

This discovery may be of great significance to the study of the culture of Mesopotamia in the third millennium B.C.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Archaeology, Tall Qabr

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