Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük

People entered their homes through the roof at Çatalhöyük, a streetless Neolithic town on the Anatolian plateau whose mud-brick houses pressed wall against wall. Its eastern mound stacks eighteen levels of settlement dating from 7400 to 6200 B.C., rich in wall paintings and sculpted reliefs, and occupation persisted for more than two millennia as village life edged toward the urban. The site was inscribed by UNESCO in 2012 as key evidence of humanity's turn to sedentary living.