Rectangular buildings grew to become frequent from about 10,000 years in the past, as seen on this reconstruction of the traditional metropolis of Çatalhöyük in Turkey
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Buildings with corners have a a lot deeper historical past than we thought, including an surprising twist to a curious architectural thriller from the daybreak of village life.
Archaeologists have lengthy been conscious of a world development in early structure. From south-west Asia to the Americas, the very earliest settlements usually contained buildings with a round or oval-shaped ground plan. Then, often just a few thousand years later, these apparently went out of trend, changing into…
