Çatalhöyük: The Neolithic Town Where People Walked on Their Roofs and Buried Their Dead Under the Floor
About 6 min readNine thousand years ago, 3,000–8,000 people lived at Çatalhöyük in mudbrick houses entered through the roof, with no streets, temples or rulers, burying their dead beneath the floor — and later excavation overturned the site’s famous Mother Goddess story, showing most figurines depict animals, not women.