From ‘Empty Lands’ to Rich History: Discovery of the First Bronze Age Settlement in Maghreb, Dating to 2,000 BC

From ‘Empty Lands’ to Rich History: Discovery of the First Bronze Age Settlement in Maghreb, Dating to 2,000 BC

Researchers at the University of Barcelona have made a remarkable discovery: the first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb region of North Africa. This significant finding, published in the journal Antiquity, challenges long-held beliefs that the area was largely uninhabited until the arrival of the Phoenicians around 800 BC. Excavations at Kach Kouch, located in northwest Morocco, have uncovered evidence of human occupation dating from 2200 to…