Ancient Group Believed Departed Souls Lived in Stone Monuments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 01:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have discovered an Iron Age chiseled stone slab that provides the first written evidence in the region that people believed the soul was separate from the body.
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