It stands alone and unloved


	It stands alone and unloved

willhelm

4-8-2009 10:10 PM

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Is this the oldest statue in the world?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/29d19616-207e-438f-bb60-634372c8ad09/4F5C8FA2-B32B-4FCD-B13B-2EBCEEEA2313/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2435,features,is-this-the-oldest-statue-in-the-world" href="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2435,features,is-this-the-oldest-statue-in-the-world" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thefirstpost.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2435,features,is-this-the-oldest-statue-in-the-world"><P class="ver12"><SPAN class="dropcap">I </SPAN>can't quite work out what I'm seeing. It looks like a fossilised snowman.
Or maybe a mock-up of a <EM>Doctor Who</EM> monster. Yet, if scholars are right, this is the oldest statue in the world.
The cream-coloured effigy was found in the ancient Kurdish city of Sanliurfa, in the hot plains of central southern Turkey, not far from the extraordinary archaeological dig of Gobekli Tepe.                                              
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2435,features,is-this-the-oldest-statue-in-the-world"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.thefirstpost.co.uk/img/1F126618-6E49-46CC-9CAC-68EC8E298E41" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2435,features,is-this-the-oldest-statue-in-the-world"><P class="ver12ind">The statue was discovered a few years ago when foundations were being laid for a new bank. The excavations took place right next to an historic city attraction - the Balikli Gol, a beautiful fishpond surrounded by mosques and gardens.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/2435,features,is-this-the-oldest-statue-in-the-world"><H2>It should be famous but it stands alone and unloved, says <A class="sans19Caps" href="http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/atoz.php#thomas">sean thomas</A> </H2></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4F5C8FA2-B32B-4FCD-B13B-2EBCEEEA2313/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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