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A 5,000-year-old piece of pottery discovered in Turkey depicts a detailed human face. Likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, experts said the fragment was from early Anatolian civilizations and is an ...

For tens of thousands of years, early humans painted animals on cave walls with incredible realism - but almost never painted themselves. Faces were missing, bodies were simplified, and human ...

It’s a moment that never fails to stop Oscar Nilsson in his tracks—an instant in which archaeology and art collide. After many months spent reconstructing the facial structure of a long-dead human in ...

Archaeologists in south-east Turkey have made an extraordinary find—a prehistoric stone face that might turn everything we believe about the origins of art and self-awareness on its head. In the early ...

The pillar is topped with a simple carving of a human face. Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism At one of the world’s oldest Stone Age archaeological sites—Karahantepe in southeast ...

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