{"id":587,"date":"2026-06-10T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/?p=587"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:01:00","slug":"cuneiform-tablets-and-human-remains-reveal-rare-evidence-for-siege-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/2026\/06\/10\/cuneiform-tablets-and-human-remains-reveal-rare-evidence-for-siege-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuneiform Tablets and Human Remains Reveal Rare Evidence for Siege Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-led-excavation-reveals-evidence-of-life-conflict-in-ancient-mesopotamia\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSVlVNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEek4VQ-rYMnqNDCBCqXRXiUmBc9JsSkNDx_rTdrMgX_3EAIJmNNnr3LeUZSSg_aem_9TjGLBP8fakv3Cl5IZOYGg\">results from the 2025 season<\/a> as reported by UCF News.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"highlights-heading heading-underline\">HIGHLIGHTS<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"highlights\">\n<li class=\"highlight-list-item\">Led by Associate <a href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/person\/tiffany-earley-spadoni\/\">Professor Tiffany Earley-Spadoni<\/a>, the U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/\">Kurd Qaburstan project<\/a> is uncovering rare physical evidence revealing what life looked like nearly 4,000 years ago and how civilization has evolved.<\/li>\n<li class=\"highlight-list-item\">From siege-damaged buildings to human remains in destruction deposits, the <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/2025-team\/\">team\u2019s<\/a> findings report the human toll of siege warfare in unusual detail.<\/li>\n<li class=\"highlight-list-item\">The discoveries show northern Mesopotamian cities like Qabra were sophisticated, fortified and politically significant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Read about results from the 2025 season as reported by UCF News. HIGHLIGHTS Led by Associate Professor Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, the U.S. National Science Foundation-sponsored Kurd Qaburstan project is uncovering rare physical evidence revealing what life looked like nearly 4,000 years ago and how civilization has evolved. From siege-damaged buildings to human remains in destruction deposits,&hellip;","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.cah.ucf.edu\/kq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}