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The strange honeycomb houses of Çatalhöyük

Nine thousand years ago, humans first settled at place called
Çatalhöyük, on a wetland teeming with fish and water birds.

The nomadic people who settled on the Konya plain in Turkey created
one of the first villages on earth.

Archaeologist Serena Love spent many years there unearthing their
history. She discovered the people lived in small, pod-like houses
made from mud bricks. These houses without windows or doors were
clustered together in a honeycomb formation. Inside, the walls were
plastered a gleaming white and often adorned with paintings of wild
boar, handprints, or long, red stripes.

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