2,500-year-old sculpture discovered at UNESCO site in Turkey

This must have been during or near the reign of Croesus, a very interesting king who was the last to rule Lydia, as recorded by Herodotus.

> It has been exceptionally well preserved because it was reused as a Roman-era paving stone on a colonnaded street

The sculpture is very 3-dimensional. I don't get how it made a good paving stone, or how being used as a paving stone didn't end up conflicting with the "well preserved" part more.

I guess it’s unrelated to this particular find but is Turkey now the place where civilization first started or Gobekli Tepe and the other similar sites are not considered civilizations at this point?

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