4,500 Year Old Burial Ground Discovered by the Archaeologist is the world oldest war Monument

In Syria, a large mound rising from the soil is the world’s first military memorial according to the archaeologists.

A Team of Archaeologists argue that the patterns of skeletons and other things discovered at the white mountain, as the architecture in the town of Tal Banat is called, was potentially the site uses as a large mass scale burial for fallen soldiers- it was for a warning against potential enemies, as per the paper that published in the academic journal Antiquity.

If this scenario was true, the finds mean that organized militaries which date back 4,500 years.

The people who are killed are honored by Ancient People, just like we do, Anne porter told Guardian, who led the study from the University of Toronto. ” whether they are victors or losers of that battle we don’t know exactly. we just confirm that they took the bodies of the dead from some other place, perhaps after the long event, and interred them in a huge mound that was visible for miles around”.

It’s been 3 decades of porters working on the white Monument, when she started excavating the site with the other researchers, as per the Smithsonian Magazine. In fact, they were working against a deadline: The Surrounding and the territory of the monument situated in the planned flood zone of a Hydroelectric dam.

A team of Archaeologists worked to unearth and catalouge skeletal remains and artifacts, after that they took photos and spatial measurements, and they studied as much as they could from the soon-to-be-destroyed wonder. until the dig wrapped up in 1999 then after they realize all the material they had amassed.

Then came another tragedy: ISIS, a militant group, demolished the Syrian warehouse where the dig’s items and other materials were held.

Porter was left with a trove of information, including unpublished journals and images, as well as spreadsheets including bone measurements, sediment analysis, and other information. In 2018, the researcher used that material to teach a course at the University of Toronto in which she and ten undergraduates attempted to figure out who was buried in the White Monument.

The researchers discovered that the site had at least three burials, which had been stacked on top of one another over years. The skeletal remains of troops were discovered in the outermost layer. While there are many examples of mass graves built for fallen enemy army goes back to the same era, this is one of the oldest tributes to a civilization’s own fighters ever discovered.

“The elements fell into place only after we realized there were patterns in those bone deposits,” Porter told the Art Newspaper. “And that was a great experience.”

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