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Archaeologists unearth a unique 11,000-year-old statue of a person riding a leopard from one of the world's earliest settlements

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Archaeologists have uncovered an 11,000-year-old statue depicting a person riding a leopard from one of the world's earliest settlements—a find described as unlike anything seen before.

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