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Director : Andr Targe
Production : Henri Jacques Bourgeas, with the participation of the                       Osmane Mounif AIDI Foundation for Heritage, Culture and                       Sciences - 2001
Duration : about one hour

The film pictures the important archaeological excavations which were made in Tell Shioukh Faouqani on the eastern bank of the Euphrates near the Syrian Turkish border, a hill which was covered by the waters of Tishreen dam. It includes the antiquities of the Aramean city (Pormarina) which dates back to the ninth century B.C.where rare inscriptions were...

found to be the origin of the Aramean alphabet, also findings from the Bronze age in the third millennium B.C.
In addition, the film recorded scenes of the features of modern life in the village of Tell Shioukh Faouqani.