"Emoji" Smile Found on a 4,000 Year-old Kendi

The unexpected news of the discovery came from archaeologists excavating at a site in southern Turkey. This time, it was not a horrible invention like a skull tower, but a "emoji" smile that was streaked on a 4,000-year-old jug.

Unique findings were obtained by a team of archaeologists from Turkey and Italy who explored the location of the Turkish-Syrian border. This location was once the City of Carchemish, an ancient city that was assured by the Hittites.

The pitcher dating from 1700 BC is pale white, and has a small short neck, a small grip, and a wide body. When found, the jug was in the cemetery. According to the researchers, the function of the pitcher is used to drink sweet sherbet that if in Indonesia Like herbal medicine.

Turkish news agency Anadolou reported, smiles on the jug not only found by archaeologists. The smile just appeared after the jug was brought to the laboratory for the restoration work.

"The smiling face is undoubtedly in the pitcher and has nothing in common with other ancient ceramic art in the area," excavation leader Dr Nicolo Marchetti of the University of Bologna told Independent July 19, 2017.

In addition to jugs, the team of archaeologists also found several artifacts used to store food and drink.

Over the past seven years, as many as 25 experts have worked on sites that have such a long history. The first excavations were performed by "Lawrence of Arabia" or Colonel TE Lawrence between 1911 and 1914.

Turkey's Ministry of Culture and Tourism said the site will be open to the public as an open-air museum. A smile jug will also be on display at the Gaziantep Archaeological Museum, near the excavation site.

You need to know, Hittites live in Anatolia or Asia Minor. They have a kingdom stretching from modern Greece and Egypt, crossing Turkey to Syria. Hittite civilizations then collapsed into smaller states during the bronze age and surrendered to the new Ayur empire around 1,178 BC.

Meanwhile, Carchemish is a place of biblical battle between Egypt and Assyria allied with Babylon, Media, Persia, and Skithia. The war was believed to have occurred in the year 605 BC.