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Johnny Funditor Offline Posts: 620 Goodlettsville,TN Gender:	Ancient Weapons Found in Ruins in Syria Jan 16^th, 2007 at 10:00pm Interesting article... http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/16/D8MMNSM00.html
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Tint Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Posts: 2342 Hong Kong Gender:	Re: Ancient Weapons Found in Ruins in Syria Reply #1 - Jan 17^th, 2007 at 2:40am Wow! Thousands years old ammos. 5,500 odd years and that place is still at war.
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hamoukar again
Reply #2 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 4:29pm

I just read a new article on http://onnachrichten.t-online.de/c/10/15/75/12/10157512.html ; showing some interesting pictures about Hamoukar. Hamoukar is the oldest town (2500 B.C.) for which we have evidence that it was destroyed in war. Sling shots made of clay where the main weapon. One of the pictures shows three of them very exactly. The only problem for many of us is that the article is in German - but the pictures not.

If I remember well we have already an older thread concerning Hamoukar.

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Reply #3 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 4:46pm

funda_iucunda wrote on Jan 18^th, 2007 at 4:29pm:

If I remember well we have already an older thread concerning Hamoukar.

We have this thread in the General Discussion forum that was started yesterday and contains a link to an article about the same findings in english. Though that thread is probably in the wrong category...I think it would be better in the Project Goliath forum.

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Willeke Interfector Viris Spurii Past Moderator Offline Give me some string and I know what to do. Posts: 2072 Netherlands Gender:	Re: hamoukar again Reply #4 - Jan 18^th, 2007 at 5:08pm I have moved it, and spliced it into this thread, thanks. Willeke
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Reply #6 - Jan 27^th, 2007 at 7:49am

Looking at the pictures of the clay sling bullets, I was struck by their very nice tear drop shape. These would have flown rather better than spherical bullets (a lower drag coefficient), and would have self aligned unlike the
ellipsoidal glandes.

The illustration of the flattened bullet, after having hit a wall or something, shows that it hit head on.

Has anyone experimented with these tear drop shapes? I recall Hondero (I think) mentioning these shapes in a post some time ago.

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