A 12,000-year-old T-shaped obelisk from the early Neolithic era features a carving of a human face. Discovered in modern-day Turkey at the Karahantepe site, it could be the first-ever carved depiction ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minister of Culture and Tourism Mehmet Nuri Ersoy announced that a T-shaped pillar featuring a human face has been uncovered at the archaeological site of Karahantepe in Urfa. Ersoy stated that the ...

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 ...

While closely related, Neanderthals and modern humans split from our last common ancestor between 650,000 and 500,000 years ago and evolved into distinct species. Among other contrasts, Neanderthal ...

Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but other species as well. Neanderthals bore stout jaws and broad noses, their features jutting forward like cliffs of bone. Chimpanzees, our ...

LAKE LEDNICA, POLAND—Notes from Poland reports that when underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University retrieved a section of a wooden beam from the bottom of Lake Lednica, they were ...

The discovery could deepen our understanding of the Neanderthal mind, but some experts aren’t convinced by the interpretation of the evidence. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes While digging inside ...

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