[JimSEA]

The sweep of history shows little today to remind us of the empires of the past. They may have been violent and oppressive but they also advanced civilization. Today, we have ISIS and and other cult which seem to be nothing but destructive and negative in their domination of every life.

[sevinufnine]

If they can, ISIS will destroy it.

[StormEye]

How can any archeologist do an scientific work in Iraq
with the homicidal, 7th Century ISIS kooks running loose?

[bgill]

Significant Bronze Age city as opposed to an insignificant Bronze Age city.

Quick, pull the grant money and shut down the project. It’s simply not significant.

[Verginius Rufus]

They found fragments of cuneiform tablets--not clear how much of value can be gleaned from them. When archives are found (as at Ebla) sometimes a lot can be learned.

It would be interesting if they could manage to extract human DNA from any of the bones (not clear how much they found of human remains) and see how the population compares to present-day populations of the area. That would be before Indo-European speakers arrived (Kurdish is an Indo-European language) except perhaps the latest periods of habitation.