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 * ... that the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut (pictured) is the third oldest museum in the Near East?


 * ... that the prehistoric Neolithic Tell Ramad, located 20 km southwest of Damascus in Syria, is considered one of the few sites fundamental to our understanding of the origin of agriculture?


 * ... that the archaeological site of Tell Bazmusian in Iraq was flooded by Lake Dukan?


 * ...that ostracoderms are the earliest known vertebrate animals?


 * ... that the limestone quarries near Ein Yabrud in the Judean Mountains have produced the only fossils for the extinct snakes Pachyrhachis and Haasiophis?