The famous wall painting from Catalhoyuk, interpreted as the earliest known landscape painting depicting a volcanic eruption of nearby Hasan Dag. Now house
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The famous wall painting from Catalhoyuk, interpreted as the earliest known landscape painting depicting a volcanic eruption of nearby Hasan Dag. Now housed in the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara, these murals decorated interior walls of domestic spaces and were periodically replastered and repainted over generations.
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