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Funerary monument reveals Iron Age belief that the soul lived in the stone

Stone wall (Skara Brae) 01 HDRGeneral Science Science

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEWS OFFICE : Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body... READ MORE

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