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Puppy prints and wall illusions found in 1,500-year-old house in Turkey – Livescience.com

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Archaeologists have discovered a fantastical-looking, 1,500-year-old house in Turkey that was decorated with illusory wall paintings and terracotta tiles on the floor with puppy prints and possible chicken decorations pressed into them.
The house may have been used by people involved with the military, the researchers noted.
“The tiles preserved the paw prints of puppies and in one rare case the hoof print of a goat,” Frances Gallart Marqués, a former curatorial fellow at the Harvard Art Museums,…

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