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New details of first major urban battle emerge

New details in the tragic end of one of the world's earliest cities as well as clues about how large scale obsidian tool manufacture may have fueld the development of urban civilization were revealed in a recent excavation in northeastern Syria that was conducted by the University of Chicago and the Syrian Department of Antiquities.

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