Archaeologists discover 8,600-year-old world’s oldest bread at Çatalhöyük
Excavations at Çatalhöyük, one of the first urbanization sites of the Neolithic period, unearthed 8,600-year-old “bread”. Archaeologists say the bread may be the oldest known bread in the world. Çatalhöyük is located in the Çumra district of Konya province in central Turkey. In Çatalhöyük, people lived in adjoining mud-brick houses with roof entrances and established
Archaeologists found an 8500-year-old trepanned skull at Çatalhöyük
A skull found in the 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Konya showed traces of trepanation (skull drilling). Çatalhöyük is a mound near Küçükköy in the Çumra district of Konya, which has been inhabited since 7000 BC. Çatalhöyük consists of two mound areas. The eastern mound was inhabited during the Neolithic Age and the western