A bench carving in Sayburç in southeastern Turkey, is thought to be the oldest known narrative scene carved in stone.
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You never know what might be hiding at the bottom of your garden. On a good day in New York, it may be a rusty safe crammed full of gold and diamonds. On a not so great one in Australia, it could be 102 venomous snakes.

And on an unassuming morning in 2020 among the foothills of Turkey’s eastern Taurus Mountains, it was a prehistoric human settlement brimming with millennia-old mysteries.