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The World’s Oldest Architectural Model Now on Display at Diyarbakır Museum
A discovery that sheds light on human history: a 12,000-year-old house model unearthed in Çayönü Hill is now exhibited at the Diyarbakır Museum. Located in Turkey’s southeastern Ergani district of Diyarbakır, the Çayönü archaeological site is one of the earliest known settlements from the Neolithic Period. In recent excavations, archaeologists uncovered what is considered to…
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The World’s First Map at Çatalhöyük: 8,200 Years of Wisdom Etched in Earth
Long before satellites or cartographers, a Neolithic community in what is now central Türkiye created something extraordinary: a map—arguably the first in human history—not drawn on parchment or stone, but painted on the interior wall of a mudbrick house. This wall painting, measuring about 3 meters in length and 90 centimeters in height, is believed…