World oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria


	World oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria

LisbethJ

10-11-2007 12:13 PM

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                                        World's oldest wall painting unearthed in Syria                </H1></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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/en_nm/syria_painting_dc"><P>
                        DAMASCUS (Reuters) - 
French archaeologists have discovered
an 11,000-year-old wall painting underground in northern Syria
which they believe is the oldest in the world.                        
                        </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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/en_nm/syria_painting_dc"><P>The 2 square-meter painting, in red, black and white, was
found at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the
Euphrates, northeast of the city of <SPAN id="lw_1192118908_0" class="yshortcuts">Aleppo</SPAN>, team leader Eric
Coqueugniot told Reuters.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/en_nm/syria_painting_dc"><P>"It looks like a modernist painting. Some of those who saw
it have likened it to work by (Paul) Klee. Through carbon
dating we established it is from around 9,000 B.C.,"
Coqueugniot said.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/en_nm/syria_painting_dc"><P>"We found another painting next to it, but that won't be
excavated until next year. It is slow work," said Coqueugniot,
who works at <SPAN id="lw_1192118908_1" class="yshortcuts">France</SPAN>'s National Centre for Scientific Research.</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://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/en_nm/syria_painting_dc"><P>Rectangles dominate the ancient painting, which formed part
of an adobe circular wall of a large house with a wooden roof.
The site has been excavated since the early 1990s.</P></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/B08D0800-2AFF-4B4D-A732-3C942097E2DF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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