An incredibly exciting find in Turkey rewrites everything we thought we knew about the earliest human civilizations.

via Turkey: Archeological Dig Reshaping Human History – Newsweek.com.

In particular, this paragraph brought a wondering smile:

Schmidt's thesis is simple and bold: it was the urge to worship that brought mankind together in the very first urban conglomerations. The need to build and maintain this temple, he says, drove the builders to seek stable food sources, like grains and animals that could be domesticated, and then to settle down to guard their new way of life. The temple begat the city.

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