An earthen pill bottle, embossed with two snakes raddled each other, called Caduceus, used as a symbol of medicine, is being displayed after it was unearthed at The Harran archaeological excavation site, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage Centre - Tentative Lists, in the southeastern province of Şanlıurfa, Turkey. According to the chair of The Archeology Department of Harran University Mehmet Onal, the pill bottle belongs in the Middle Ages, 9 centuries old. The snake figure symbolizes immortality in archeology also symbolizes health and medicine in ancient Egypt and Greek arts.
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#Şanlıurfa
#pill bottle
#Harran
#archaeological
#excavation
#UNESCO
#World Heritage Centre
#snake figure
#archeology
#Turkey
#Greek arts
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