History Is Being Rewritten at an Archaeological Site in Morocco. What the Discovery of an Ancient Wall Tells Us
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History is being rewritten at an archaeological site in Morocco. What the discovery of an ancient wall tells us
In the hills of north-west Morocco, overlooking the river that gives the site its name, research at Oued Beht is bringing to light a previously unknown chapter of the region’s past. The discovery of a substantial built structure suggests that, during the second millennium BC, communities in north-west Africa were actively shaping their environment. They were also engaging in broader networks of interaction across the Mediterranean world. Previou…
An international team of archaeologists has dated a defensive structure in Oued Beht, Morocco, to between 3,500 and 4,000 years ago, making it the oldest documented fortification in North Africa outside the Nile Valley. The discovery establishes a temporal connection with Bronze Age fortified villages in Spain. Oldest Fortification Outside Egypt The structure in Oued Beht is considered the oldest fortification outside of Egypt, dating between 3,…
Before Rome existed, before the Phoenicians crossed the western Mediterranean and while in the southeast of the Iberian peninsula the first fortified villages of the Argarian culture began to rise, a community installed on a rocky crest of the interior of Morocco already excavated a moat and piled up land to protect itself from [...]
RABAT (MOROCCO). In Morocco, new excavations conducted in Oued Beht, have brought to light a system of moat and embankment [...] The article Morocco: discovery in Morocco the oldest defensive structure of North Africa outside the Nile Valley comes from Defense Report.
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