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...support was requested by Iraqi ground troops that were being attacked by that position," he said. He said that the Americans have carried out four air strikes overall since the offensive began. He also said that, at the request of Iraqi forces, British artillery fired on the al-Halaf district of Basra on Saturday...
...Hohenzollern. He is Baron Max von Oppenheim, 81, who has been snooping around the Near East since 1893. Born of a Cologne banking family, short, fat, bouncy, shoe-button-eyed, he has agreeable manners and an Arctic mustache. A crack archeologist, he discovered and dug up at Tell Halaf in Upper Mesopotamia (now Iraq) a temple-palace stuffed with nightmarish, colossal statuary carved by the Subaraeans, a people flourishing around 3500 B.C. Off & on, the digging continued for more than 18 years: his treasures were split between museums in Berlin and Aleppo...
Other excavations have laid bare the relatively high culture, the so-called Tell Halaf civilization of the period roughly about four thousand years B.C., which had all the marks of a relatively highly developed agricultural economy, with sophisticated painted pottery designs and elaborate building constructions. Also, the sequence of cultures from the Tell Halaf period down through to written history and the periods of the great dynasties, and down to the present, are also fairly well traced by now, Lockard said...
...noticeable gap in this story of Near Eastern human development lies in the so-called Neolithic period, lying between the Palaeolithic nomadic hunters, and the highly developed Tell Halaf peoples, Lockard remarked...
Baron Max von Oppenheim, German excavator, will lecture in the Large Room of the Fogg Art Museum tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock on "The Wonders of Tell Halaf," a proto-Hittite city of 5,000 years...