The Origins of Cities - Ancient History

In 1961st Archaeologists in southern Turkey have discovered and investigate Catal Hüyük, one of theoldest cities in the world.It was built 8000. years ago by the farmers and cattle prods, which worked at daylight on the plains outside the city walls, and in the evening they returned to their city without streets and slept in their homes on the platforms below which bones of their ancestors were bueried.Houses had simple outside walls without windows.But interior walls were richly decorated.The objects they found in them, like the shrine of deity in the form of a bull and another dedicated to the goddess of birth, evidence of the existence of the fertility cult.Third sanctuary, which may be dedicated to the deity of death, is painted with depictions of vultures that completely cleaned the bones of the dead.In Catal Hüyük lived a few skilled craftsmen, and some of them made mirrors and knives of obsidian, dark volcanic glass traded across Middle East.