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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsNew Evidence Suggests Middle East Conflict Predates All Human Civilization
NEW YORKIn a major breakthrough that provides new insight into the regions deep-seated instability, researchers at Columbia University presented evidence Tuesday that indicates the long-running conflict currently engulfing the Middle East predates all human civilization.
According to the team of leading historians, archaeologists, and paleontologists, the regional turmoil appears to have originated long before the Sunni-Shiite rift of the seventh century or even the first proto-urban settlements in Mesopotamia some 11,000 years earlier, with data suggesting that the violent struggle has been raging across the same 5-million-square-mile area since the dawn of life on earth.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-evidence-suggests-middle-east-conflict-predate,38428/
According to the team of leading historians, archaeologists, and paleontologists, the regional turmoil appears to have originated long before the Sunni-Shiite rift of the seventh century or even the first proto-urban settlements in Mesopotamia some 11,000 years earlier, with data suggesting that the violent struggle has been raging across the same 5-million-square-mile area since the dawn of life on earth.
too too funny....
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New Evidence Suggests Middle East Conflict Predates All Human Civilization (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Apr 2015
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)1. the destructive coral wars of the Devonian period and the 270-million-year Trilobite Intifada.
csziggy
(34,140 posts)2. My husband maintains that the sword was invented for Mid East wars
But it makes sense that the conflicts would have begun much earlier!
Yeah, Onion writers!
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)3. Has he seen this vid that explains the progression of ME weapons?
which is also very funny, in a rueful way.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)4. An awful lot of truth for just three and a half minutes.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)6. Indeed....
I played it several times when I first heard it.
csziggy
(34,140 posts)5. No - but I'll show it to him tonight
He'll enjoy the ironic humor in it. Thanks!