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The temple that rewrote prehistory — built before farming

Vulture Stone, Gobekli Tepe, Sanliurfa, South-east Anatolia, Turkey The Vulture Stone is thought to be the world's first pictograph. It depicts a human head in the wing of a vulture and a headless hum
Vulture Stone, Gobekli Tepe, Sanliurfa, South-east Anatolia, Turkey The Vulture Stone is thought to be the world's first pictograph. It depicts a human head in the wing of a vulture and a headless… © Sue Fleckney, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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