The first sculpture of a man ever found, at the archaeological museum of Sanliurfa


The Urfa Man, believed to be eleven thousand years old, is the oldest known life-sized human sculpture. Discovered in the nineteen-nineties in downtown Urfa, Turkey, it now resides in the Sanliurfa Museum


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Photo credit: © Giulio Ercolani / Alamy / Afripics
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