A team of Iranian archaeologists recently discovered a pottery work bearing an engraved image of a naked man at the 5000-year-old Espidej cemetery, the Persian service of CHN reported on Sunday.
“The pottery work was made of red earth, and the potter engraved the shape with a tool similar to a thin reed while it was still wet,” said Mohammad Heydari, the director of the team working at the site.
This is the second time that archaeologists working at the site have discovered an artifact bearing a human motif. The first one was a bas-relief of a dancing man and woman unearthed in 2003. All of the other artifacts found at the site bear animal or geometrical shapes.
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