Rock tomb found in the courtyard of the house – History

A grave cut into bedrock is found in the courtyard of a private residence in southeast Türkiye. The single-chamber rock tomb has reliefs with unusual portrait patterns, which is estimated to be 2,300 years old.

The main relief depicts a man with his left arm protruding out in a “banquet position” in the middle of a wall. Two winged figures that seem to have feminine characteristics are in the corner of the grave. There is an inscription on the inside of the entrance door, but it is painted on the Ocher, but it is faded and damaged and cannot be read yet. Archaeologists hope that decrypting the inscription might narrow the date of the grave.

The grave was discovered as part of the Cultural Inventory Project, a comprehensive initiative that re-recorded archaeological assets previously recorded and identified new assets in the province of Sanliurfa. The plan is to create an updated list of cultural assets to monitor their condition and rescue locations, which are seriously damaged or threatened. Many of the approximately 6,000 historical assets in the province are rock tombs from Hittites (1400-200 BCE) and Roman times (1c. BC. BC – 4th c. ad). The relief of this tomb is different from any other tomb recorded in the project.

Just 7 miles from Göbekli Tepe, Anlıurfa is home to the world’s oldest temple, dating back to 10th millennium BC and the center of the agricultural revolution. Wuku was founded in Edessa during the Greek era (3rd century BC), but the site has been settled for thousands of years. Its oldest inhabitant, Urfa Man, is a 11,500-year-old limestone sculpture, the oldest lifespan statue in the world.