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Çatalhöyük

Çatalhöyük - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Çatalhöyük (; also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal "fork" + höyük "tumulus") is a tell (a mounded accretion due to long-term human settlement) of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BC to 6400 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. In July 2012, it was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Çatalhöyük entry on the UNESCO World Heritage List site Read more on Wikipedia

• type: ancient site
• date from: Approximately 7100 BC; ago
• UNESCO World Heritage Site: 1405

Source: en.wikipedia.org