G-Manicus Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 Click here for complete story Damascus - Mural paintings dating back 11 000 years have been found in a building on a bank of the River Euphrates in northern Syria, a French archaeologist said on Tuesday. "Geometric paintings - black, white and red - have been found on the wall of a house in Jadeh," he said, adding that they were discovered in late September in a circular house with a diameter of about seven metres. The house was in a riverside village dating from the start of the neolithic era in the Middle East, 9 000 years BC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted October 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 Photo of the painting from a followup story (no new info besides the pic): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Manicus Posted October 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 More from Reuters: "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 Centre for Scientific Research. Rectangles dominate the ancient painting, which formed part of an adobe circular wall of a large house with a wooden roof. The site has been excavated since the early 1990s. The painting will be moved to Aleppo's museum next year, Coqueugniot said. Its red came from burnt hematite rock, crushed limestone formed the white and charcoal provided the black. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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