Archaeologists working at a Stone Age site in Turkey have discovered a unique depiction of a person sitting on the back of a leopard. The 11,000-year-old statue may reflect the culture's fascination with virility and masculinity, experts say.
The statue was unearthed this summer at Karahan Tepe (also written as Karahantepe), a Neolithic site in southern Turkey, according to an Aug. 25 translated statement from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
The unique statue, which measures about 28 inches (70 centimeters) tall, was made in "a style unlike anything seen before," Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey's minister of culture and tourism, said in the statement.
Excavators found the statue on a platform that ran along the wall of a round structure about 10 feet (3 meters) in diameter, according to the statement.
Karahan Tepe is one of the oldest known villages in the world. It was built around 9750 B.C. in ...
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