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UNESCO’s designation draws visitors to Arslantepe Mound

The addition of the Arslantepe Mound in Türkiye to the UNESCO World Heritage List last year has brought the ancient site into view for visitors, according to a museum official. Director of the #Malatya Museum Samet Erol told Anadolu Agency that interest in the 8,000-year-old site in eastern Malatya province has increased after it was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Permanent List.

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"The earliest layers of the Early Uruk period are characterized by adobe houses from the first half of the 4th millennium BCE," it said. "The site illustrates the processes which led to the emergence of a State society in the Near East and a sophisticated bureaucratic system that predates writing," according to the UN agency.