The bench with bull horns - a detail of Building 77 in the 4040 area of Çatalhöyük.

Çatalhöyük at Çumra, 45 km south of Konya, is a fascinating Neolithic site in Central Anatolia dating from the 10th-8th millennium B.C., which makes it one of the world´s oldest towns.
The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, the largest and most complex known in the world, was among the great archaeological finds of the 1960s. Here was evidence of one of the first agricultural - based settlements and a place where women may have had a central leadership role. Found amid the ruins were wooden, metal, and earthenware artifacts, as well as murals, bas-reliefs, and sculptures that depicted systems of early belief.
(Location: near Konya)

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