Death on the Euphrates, or, a Kunga Line to Heaven?
This Week in the Ancient Near East
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Show Notes
Is the third millennium BCE burial mound at Tell Banat in north Syria a war memorial to the site’s defenders? What moves the living to take a random sample of human and animal bones and bury them in a mound that looms over their community? What is a kunga anyway and how does the modern sport of donkey basketball fit in? Our panelists are strangely eloquent, in an episode not to be missed.
To learn more
Pyramid-shaped mound holding 30 corpses may be world's oldest war monument
https://www.livescience.com/oldest-war-monument-discovered-syria.html