Science Museum of Minnesota - Exhibit History - Mysteries of Çatalhöyük Image Gallery

&lt;p&gt;Right now... in Turkey... at a place called &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Catal-what? Press a button to hear the &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k guard pronounce the name of the site.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;View a model of the &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k east mound; then take a virtual computer tour of this 9,000-year-old site.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Curl up inside a replica of a burial platform; people were buried beneath the plaster floors of &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k houses.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Learn what was for dinner 9,000 years ago in the Neolithic kitchen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Archaeologists are identifying the animals that lived at &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k by examining the animal bone evidence.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Study some &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k plants preserved as charred carbon remains under the microscope.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Excavating is about digging, recording, and planning all at the same time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Learn about dig life around this replica of &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k’s dig house verandah. Archaeologists live and work from the dig house during the summer season.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Board the bus for a video trip to Konya, a nearby Turkish city. Listen to some Turkish CDs and read about the country at the resource center.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What kinds of artifacts are they finding at &amp;#199;atalh&amp;#246;y&amp;#252;k? Photographs and video tell the story.&lt;/p&gt;