Speaking by telephone from Damascus , Abdel-Razzaq Moaz , Syria 's deputy minister of culture , said that Hamoukar was '' one of the most important sites not only in the Middle East but in the Old World , '' and that the new discovery brought to light '' a kind of turning point in the history of civilization . ''
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