Exploding volcano mural could be world’s oldest landscape
Scientists have linked the eruption of Turkey’s Mount Hassan with a Neolithic painting found in the nearby proto-city of Çatalhöyük.
New evidence could prove that a 8,600-year-old painting in central Turkey is the world’s oldest known landscape or map.
The three-meter wide mural, which appears to show an erupting twin-peaked volcano above the plan of a village, has
The Art Newspaper
January 30, 2014
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been dated to around 6600BC, and was discovered inside a mud-brick house excavated in the 1960s at Çatalhöyük, one of the world's best-preserved Neolithic sites. It is now kept in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations in Ankara, Turkey.
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