A team of international experts has been excavating in Konya at a UNESCO World Heritage Site believed to be the world’s oldest settlement. Their findings are fascinating. Catalhoyuk, in Türkiye’s Konya, is a “Neolithic settlement known as the world’s oldest city,” Dr Eline Schotsmans tells TRT World. “It covers an area of 13 hectares and features densely aggregated mudbrick domestic structures.” Schotsmans, from the Centre for Archaeological Science at the ...