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July 26, 2017 09:03 am PDT

World's oldest smiley face drawing found on a jug from 1700 BCE

Archaeologists excavating a Hittite city on the border of Turkey and Syria found a broken jug that, upon restoration, revealed a smiley face. At 3,700-years-old, it could be the oldest smiley face drawing ever found. From Smithsonian:

According to Zuhal Uzundere Kocalar at Turkey's state-run news service, the Anadolu Agency, the researchers did not notice the smiley face until restorers put the fragments of the round, off-white jug with a small handle and short neck back together.

We have found a variety of cubes and urns. The most interesting of them is a pot dating back to 1700 BC that features an image of a 'smile' on it, Nicolo Marchetti, an archaeology professor at the University of Bologno in Italy, tells Kocalar. The pot was used for drinking sherbet [sweet drink]. Most probably, [this depicts] the oldest smile of the world.


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