• We meet at 09.30 at the courtyard of the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, which was awarded «European Museum of the Year» in 1997.
• Buildings that serve as the Museum today have an important place both in the history of Ankara and for Prof. Denk’s narrative.
• Transformation of Mahmut Paşa Bedesten and Kurşunlu Han to the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations is an obvious example of the changes in socio-economic life since the Oottoman Empire…

• The First section we encounter is the easily negligible exhibit of microlites and stone hand axes, which were the everyday tools of primal humans.
• This extremely important section sheds light on the primal humans everyday life, law and order. Prof. Denk must be thinking the same, as it takes one and a half hours to leave this section showing why
  and how our ancient and original way of life was Stateless!
• We give a ten-minute break.

• After learning about the qualities of primal life, we encounter with first settlements. We come across the “Sitting Woman” figurine, commonly known as “Cyblele”, written extensively on “what” and “whom” it represents, and named “mother goddess” by James Mellaart who unearthed it. Prof. Denk has a unique argument.
  Reminding us what he said about primal egalitarianism… To him, finding it in Çatalhöyük was not a coincidence at all!
• Devolution of the qualities of this figurine apparently overlaps with the transition to a new social order. Meanwhile, Çatalhöyük would collapse.
• Prof. Denk argues why and how this happened could be explained by a dynamic that is in motion even today. A dynamic that would erode egalitarianism and change the old ways of thinking, create new ones, ie. first city-states and then empires! After all, new inventions come with new forms of
  organization.
• Indeed, is there «anything new under the sun»?

Prices: Students 900 TL – Adults 1250 TL