It’s such a treat to occasionally find a slab of sidewalk with a permanently imprinted dog paw. It tells a whole, adorable story. Now imagine that dog paw telling a story from 4000 years ago. That’s what happened, according to a social media post shared by Türkiye’s minister of culture and tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy .

Archaeologists excavating the sprawling Bronze Age site of Tavşanlı Höyük have dug up a sun-dried mudbrick with an ancient dog’s paw print stuck in it.

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Tavşanlı Höyük’te yaklaşık 4.000 yıllık pati izleri bulduk. 🐾

🐕 Kütahya’daki kazılarımızda, patili bir dostumuzun henüz kurumamış kerpicin üzerinde bıraktığı izlere ulaştık.

Tunç Çağı’nda yangın geçirerek yıkılan bir yapının molozu içinde bulunan bu kerpiç, bir zamanlar evin… pic.twitter.com/N8R6Xv1tMf

— Mehmet Nuri Ersoy (@MehmetNuriErsoy) October 26, 2026

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