Why Klee would have admired the world's oldest wall painting

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: October 13, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Its precise red, black and white rectangles recall Modernist art by Mondrian or Klee, but this painting - recently discovered in the Syrian countryside - is actually the oldest wall painting known to man.

"Through carbon dating, we established it is from around 9000BC," said Eric Coqueugniot, the leader of a French archaeological team which unearthed it. "We found another painting next to it but that won't be excavated until next year. It is slow work."

The wall picture, measuring 2m by 2m, was found below ground at Djade al-Mughara, a Neolithic settlement on the Euphrates river north-east of ...

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