Pictures on walls

Eventually the weather calmed down and the milder more constant weather allowed us to stay in one place for a little more time. Around 8000 years ago not long after the ice started its last retreat northwards, we turned our sticks and stones to domesticating our animals and nurturing the food that they ate too, perfecting ways to cook it into palatable food for ourselves when the anumals were scarce. This took skill and not everyone could be good at everything so by coming together in the larger nests, that we call cities, like ants or bees we started taking on more specialised roles.

We believe that the first cities in the world started down here somewhere, probably in central turkey which was still greener then than it is today as the ice melted in the mountains, and the rains fell on the plains and rivers meandered to the sea.

Here in the honeycomb of rooms that we built at Çatalhöyük nearly 9000 years ago we adorned the mud walls with soot and ochre images of all our familiar animals as in our cave homes millenia before.

These early houses go over four times as far back as the ones the romans built when they settled by the bridge they built by the river at Londinium