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A person sitting on a leopard
Top image: An archaeologist cleans the human-on-leopard sculpture in the place where it was discovered at Karahantepe. Source: Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism

A person sitting on a leopard

Karahantepe, southeastern Turkey. about 11,000 years old. Before writing. Known. Free

Known. A stone statue shows a person seated on a leopard.

The statue is at Karahantepe, in southeastern Turkey. It is about 11,000 years old and about 70 centimetres tall. It was left on a stone bench inside a small building with a flat stone floor, about 3 metres across. Older carvings at this site show leopards carried on the backs of people. This one places the person on the animal.

The page says what the statue meant must wait for a closer study.

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