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How Did Çatalhöyük Function Without Streets? - The Neolithic Settlement That Defies Urban History | Sleepy Facts About History
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Seven thousand years before the pyramids of Egypt, thousands of people lived in a massive settlement on the Konya Plain in what is now central Türkiye. But Çatalhöyük looked nothing like a conventional city. It had no streets, no public squares, and no ground-level doors. Instead, it was a continuous mass of mudbrick houses where residents entered their homes by climbing ladders through holes in the roof, moving across a shared roofscape that served as the true public space of the…
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