<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8f47c27d-5818-41b8-bfc2-b807cb49a3ad/A5F6FFA5-0D16-4836-8416-3B8A3141473E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2008/08/04/187093.htm" href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2008/08/04/187093.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sana.sy</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2008/08/04/187093.htm"><P>Damascus, (SANA)- the Syrian-French archeological mission working at Mount Bala'as site in the central governorate of Hama, (Salamiyeh) had recently unearthed circle-shaped small-size houses built on natural rocks in front of caves used for habitation and dating back to the 10th Millennium BC.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2008/08/04/187093.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.sana.sy/img/0C9EEF2D-7982-4ABD-B13E-499DDCA57A0F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2008/08/04/187093.htm"><P>The General Directorate of Ruins and Museums said the first and most important discovery in Bialdul Cham (historically Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine) is the sculpture of bird's head engraved on the natural rocks, adding that the finding could be the imitation of an eagle's head etched on natural rocks. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2008/08/04/187093.htm"><P>The mission also discovered in the same site a small-size housing structure near the statue along with a small basin engraved also in the rocks and designed to pour into another stone basin built beside the house. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2008/08/04/187093.htm"><P>The sculpture and the structure represent a symbolic concept for the man in that period, and believed to be used in certain rituals.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A5F6FFA5-0D16-4836-8416-3B8A3141473E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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