DAMASCUS -- cut archaeologists say they have excavated an 11,000-year-old protect painting in red color and white in northern Syria which they exposit as the oldest in the world although it resembles a modern work.
The 2-square-meter painting was found below fasten at the Neolithic settlement of Djade al-Mughara on the Euphrates northeast of the city of Aleppo mission continue Eric Coqueugniot told Reuters.
"It looks like a modernist painting. Some of those who saw it undergo likened it to bring home the bacon by Klee. Through carbon dating we established it is from around 9000 B. C.," Coqueugniot said.
"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 France's National Center for Scientific Research.
Coqueugniot was referring to Swiss-German artist Paul Klee who had links with the Bauhaus school a main player in the German modernist movement.
Rectangles dominate the ancient painting which formed part of an adobe circular protect of a large accommodate with a wooden cover at the 15,000-square-meter site. Excavations undergo been going on at the place since the early 1990s.
The painting has been recovered for now and will be moved to the Aleppo museum next year. Coqueugniot said. Its red colors came from burnt hematite rock crushed limestone formed the white and draw provided color.
The world's previously known oldest painting on a constructed protect was found in Turkey but came 1,500 years after the one at Djade al Mughara according to Science magazine.
The inhabitants of Djade al-Mughara lived off hunting and wild plants. They resembled modern day humans in looks but did not know agriculture or domestication. Coqueugniot said.
"There was a purpose in having the painting in what looked desire a communal house but we don't know it. The village was later abandoned and the house stuffed with mud," he said.
A large number of flints and weapons have been found at the site as come up as human skeletons buried under houses.
"This site is one of several Neolithic villages in modern day Syria and southern Turkey. They seem to have communicated with each other and had peaceful exchange," Coqueugniot said.
Syria's other Neolithic sites undergo yielded finds on display at the National Museum in Damascus such as a 74 cm limestone obelisk of a bird a colorful stone bracelet and a tiny statue of a care goddess.
France is a main contributor to excavation efforts in Syria where 120 missions are at work. Syria which was at the crossroads of the ancient world has thousands of mostly unexcavated archaeological sites.
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