Göbekli Tepe was settled some 10,000+ years ago.
Istanbul was Constantinople in one of the at-least-three other empires that claimed that land. Contiguity is kinda out.
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teft@piefed.social 2 days ago
Turkey is a good candidate. Göbekli Tepe was settled some 10,000+ years ago.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s really funny the only main thing about Turkey that didn’t change in last few thousand years is just “ah there is also a lot of cats around.”
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Where were the Egyptian cats supposed to go when Egypt fell / was conquered? The Ottoman and Roman Empires were prosperous, ergo they were the perfect societies for cats to enslave next lol
Kind of funny to think of cats thriving in so many countries that got repeatedly raided, conquered, and reestablished by multiple different empires and cultures. Everyone dies eventually but the cats stay haha
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cats are nature’s perfect predator in more ways than one, it seems