The Urfa man, also known as the Balıklıgöl statue, is an ancient human shaped statue found during excavations in Balıklıgöl near Urfa, in the geographical area of Upper Mesopotamia, in the southeast of modern Turkey.[1][2] It is dated c. 9000 BC to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, and was considered as "the oldest naturalistic life-sized sculpture of a human".[3] It is considered as contemporaneous with the sites of Göbekli Tepe (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A/B) and Nevalı Çori (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B).[4]
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The Urfaman, also known as the Balıklıgöl statue, is an ancient human shaped statue found during excavations in Balıklıgöl near Urfa, in the geographical...
Urfa, officially called Şanlıurfa (Turkish pronunciation: [ʃanˈɫɯuɾfa]), is a city in southeastern Turkey and the capital of Şanlıurfa Province. The city...
Urfa was founded as a city under the name Edessa by the Seleucid king Seleucus I Nicator in 303 or 302 BC. There is no written evidence for earlier settlement...
This same motif is also known from other finds, such as the so-called UrfaMan, an approximately 1.8 meter high sandstone statue that was discovered in...
dating to 35,000-40,000 years ago. The oldest known life-sized statue is UrfaMan found in Turkey which is dated to around 9,000 BC. Throughout history,...
Trundholm sun chariot. From the ancient Near East, the over-life sized stone UrfaMan from modern Turkey comes from about 9,000 BCE, and the 'Ain Ghazal Statues...
or deities, are known from Göbekli Tepe and dated to circa 9000 BC. The UrfaMan found in another site nearby is dated to the period of the Pre-Pottery...
social rank that are headed by a charismatic individual – either a 'big man' or a proto-chief – functioning as a lineage-group head. Whether a non-hierarchical...
It is the largest and best-preserved Neolithic site found to date. The UrfaMan statue is dated c. 9000 BC, to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic...
early Neolithic settlement on the middle Euphrates, in Şanlıurfa. The UrfaMan statue is dated c. 9000 BC, to the period of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic...
occupied the area for six months during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. UrfaMan (9000 BCE) Dol hareubang Deer stone – Megaliths found largely in Siberia...
paintings at Caverna da Pedra Pintada and the Toquepala Caves; Wurdi Youang; UrfaMan; the Venus of Monruz 10,000 BC – The Wolverine pendant of Les Eyzies; First...
1038/nature16448. hdl:10072/142470. PMID 26762458. S2CID 1756170. "Tool find hints Java Man and hobbit had early human neighbour". New Scientist. Jan 13, 2016. Michael...
romanized: Édessa) was an ancient city (polis) in Upper Mesopotamia, in what is now Urfa or Şanlıurfa, Turkey. It was founded during the Hellenistic period by King...
became a no man's land and later became the Emirate of Transjordan. Due to the success of the Turkish War of Independence, Marash, Aintab and Urfa sanjaks...
between his birthplace of Ur of the Chaldees, believed by some to have been Urfa, Turkey, and his final destination of the desert of Negev. Abraham/Ibrahim...
the cave where Ayyub reportedly went through his ordeal with illness, at Urfa in southeast Turkey A panoramic view of the Prophet Eyyub Complex Abdullah...
of the existence of a physical image in the ancient city of Edessa (now Urfa) was by Evagrius Scholasticus, writing about 593, who reports a portrait...
96,072 (2022). It is approximately 40 kilometres (25 miles) southeast of Urfa and 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the Syrian border crossing at Akçakale...
Hovannisian, Richard G. (2006). Armenian Tigranakert/Diarbekir and Edessa/Urfa. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers. p. 2. ISBN 9781568591537. The...
were found in the archaeological excavations conducted in Göbekli Tepe in Urfa province which is called the zero point of time. As a result of the investigations...
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