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Turkey: 1,500-year-old House With Puppy Paw Prints And Wall Illusion Discovered
Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered paw prints belonging to a dog and goat’s hoof print embedded in the floor of a house dating some 1,500 years.
Archaeologists in Turkey recently uncovered paw prints belonging to a dog embedded in the floor of a house dating some 1,500 years. According to a research published in Live Science, the canine likely stepped on a terra cotta tile that was drying before being fired in a kiln and placed on the floor. The archaeologists also uncovered a goat’s hoof print in another tile, as well as the outline of a chicken made with someone’s fingers and a plaster wall painted to look like marble and draped curtains.
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All the big museums do it: They exhibit artifacts from other countries. But how many museums actually have a right to do so?
It s a difficult question to answer. In 2013, New York s Metropolitan Museum sent two statues back home after they were presented with evidence that they d been stolen from a Cambodian temple. That s great, but according to The Verge, proving that something was definitely looted, stolen, or otherwise taken illegally is tough, even though the Archaeological Institute of America suggests that up to 90 percent of classical and certain other types of artifacts have ended up in museums under shady circumstances.
They were in the excavation of a 5th-century house in the ancient city of Sardis
The dog likely stepped on a wet terra cotta tile before it was fired in a kiln
Researchers also found hoof prints and a finger-drawn image of a chicken
Swords and other artifacts suggest the family was in the military or government
The house was destroyed by earthquake in the early seventh century