Turkey excavation yields clues to human history

By Agence France-Presse

Oct 16, 2023 12:21 am

KARAHANTEPE, Turkey: The dry expanses of southeastern Turkey, home to some of humanity's most ancient sites, have yielded fresh discoveries in the form of a stone phallus and a colored boar.

For researchers, the carved statue of a man holding his phallus with two hands while seated atop a bench adorned with a leopard is a new clue in the puzzle of our very beginnings.

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