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The wall discovered at Oued Beht, a site in Morocco that is steadily rewriting the history of the Maghreb. Giulio Lucarini/OBAP Archive

History is being rewritten at an archaeological site in Morocco. What the discovery of an ancient wall tells us

Giulio Lucarini, National Research Council (CNR); Cyprian Broodbank, University of Cambridge, and Toby C. Wilkinson, University of Cambridge

Communities in the north-west Maghreb were able to coordinate large construction projects thousands of years ago.
The discovery was made in the coloured area of this aerial photo of Oued Beht in Khemisset, Morocco. T Wilkinson/OBAP Archive

A 5,000‑year‑old farming society in Morocco fills a major gap in history – north‑west Africa was a central player in trade and culture

Giulio Lucarini, National Research Council (CNR); Cyprian Broodbank, University of Cambridge, and Youssef Bokbot, Institut national des Sciences de l'Archéologie et du Patrimoine in Rabat

The team’s work at Oued Beht unearthed the most extensive and earliest agricultural complex known in north Africa outside the Nile Valley.

Related Topics

  1. African archaeology
  2. African history + heritage
  3. Maghreb
  4. Morocco
  5. Neolithic
  6. North African history
  7. Oued Beht
  8. Political systems
  9. prehistoric times

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