Archaeologists Uncovers 11,000-Year-Old Artefacts In Syria

Middle-East-Online ^ | 10-23-2007 | Talal el-Atrache

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Izzy Dunne]

< insert Helen Thomas joke here >

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Too bad they couldn’t find Saddam’s WMD’s.

[#1CTYankee]

That was the result of an Israeli boming, soon they will be findings artifacts from the stone-age.

[TRY ONE]

Gumby?

[stubernx98]

But, but, I thought the world was 6,000 years old?

[edcoil]

Well, that proves they have no nuclear weapons!

[RightWhale]

The wall paintings date back to the 9th millennium BC. They were discovered last month on the wall of a house standing two metres (6.6 feet) high

The wall or the painting is two meters high. A house wall that old, that high would be remarkable in itself. Pictures required of course.

[Verginius Rufus]

Neolithic is the New Stone Age, so these artifacts are from the Stone Age. I don't remember seeing the term Epipaleolithic before (instead of Mesolithic...maybe there is a slight difference).

[righttackle44]

“Artefact is a fulltext information retrieval system capable of searching through databases containing documents written in a natural language.” - Wikipedia.

They found one of THESE things?????

[oldbill]

Also found were parts of a Canaanite nuclear weapon and Israelite smart bomb fragments.

[MEGoody]

But, but, I thought the world was 6,000 years old?

You can think whatever you want. It's all a best guess anyway, based on whatever one decides is credible evidence.

[blam]

"A house wall that old, that high would be remarkable in itself. Pictures required of course.

'Oldest' Wall Painting Looks Like Modern Art

[RightWhale]

That is surprisingly radical.

[CHEE]

A small stone anthropomorphic Neolithic figurine
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This figurine in the article dose not look like a monkey to me. More like a take off of Arnold SwartzWhatsHisName of California fame.

[Bender2]

Did they find... any North Koreans down there, too?

[Hoosier-Daddy]

I guess they really DON’T build them like they used to.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

It kinda looks to me to be a picture of a building. Two walls connecting to the left and a stairway to the right.

[RightWhale]

It has some of that perspective effect. Maybe a touch of cubism.