Why it matters
A honeycomb of mud-brick houses entered through the roof, dense and planned, 9,000 years ago — organised settlement far earlier than the cities-need-kings model expected.
What mainstream says
Fully accepted; only the old 10,000-population figure was hype.
Graded Grounded · A on the Ancient Code honesty scale (A grounded · C contested · S speculation · U unidentified). It belongs to the Before the flood line of evidence.
Sources & further reading
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