His research was conducted before the first formal archaeological surveys in the Near East and long before there were any theoretical or mythological considerations of survey designs within archaeology. Nonetheless, our results offer a completely new perspective and the distribution of forts across the region reopens discussions regarding their military, political, and economic functions, end quote. There seems to always be something new about something old. Our thanks to Jennifer Olett and the folks at Ars Technica for their contribution of this article to Urban Legends and Stranger Truths