Rattle age of 4 thousand years Bashny.Net

The oldest toy found on the settlement of Gultepe, Kanis Karum in Anatolia.

During excavations, the trade of the colony, Kultepe Kanis-Karum (Kültepe Kaniş-Karum; Anatolia, Turkey) found the rattle and its age is about 4 thousand years. It is probably the oldest known toy of this type. Excavations in the settlement are carried out since 1948. Works on the monument the expedition from the University of Ankara under the leadership of Professor Fikri Kulakoglu (Fikri Kulakoğlu). Rattle made of clay, and inside it are small stones. If you shake the toy, then she makes the same sounds as the modern rattles. Kultepe-Kanis – one of the oldest cities of Asia Minor. In the II Millennium BC Kultepe was a great city – lived there for more than 50 thousand people. "Sometimes we think that the population was more than 70 thousand. Some of them were Assyrians, but most were from Anatolia. Of course, not all of them were adults. Among them were young people, and children and infants".

Source: nkj.ru