A great archaeological treasure, dating back up to 1 million years, has been unearthed in an abandoned gold mine in the middle of the Sahara desert.
According to Daily Mail, the strange artifacts were accidentally unearthed by gold miners in the Atbara River area of Sudan’s Eastern Desert (EDAR), part of the Sahara Desert. It is a series of clear quartz stones meticulously cut by human hands.
Some ancient quartz stone tools – Photo: PLOS ONE
The research team led by Dr. Mirosław Masojć, from the Institute of Archeology of the University of Wrocław (Poland) took over the scene. Analysis results showed that these were ancient human stone tools, crafted into axes, cutting knives and many other types of tools.
The gold mine also revealed strange holes and mysterious abrasion marks on the rock. Research has shown that is where tools were crafted. The large number of holes as well as the large number of tools concentrated in a small location show that this was not only a place where prehistoric people once settled, it was also a stone tool factory!
Gold mine where artifacts were unearthed – Photo: PLOS ONE
According to an article published in the scientific journal PLOS One, based on the dating of the artifacts, this factory was born 700,000 to 1 million years ago. Thus, these beautiful quartz tools are not from us Homo sapiens, but from another mysterious, extinct human species.
Traces on the stone show that this is a factory, not simply a tool warehouse – Photo: PLOS ONE
The discovery is considered an unparalleled archaeological treasure because this is humanity’s oldest factory ever discovered. These tools were meticulously crafted and were a great treasure for people of the Stone Age, and also a treasure for the present, not only because of their antiquity but also because of their extremely archaeological value. their big.
Some other tools at the “treasure” – Photo: PLOS ONE
The authors suspect that the owner of this factory is Homo erectus, a human species that appeared in the world about 2 million years ago and became extinct more than 100,000 years ago. The newly unearthed treasure trove of artifacts shows that their level is much higher than we once thought. Clearly the first archaic hominids that were truly upright and had modern human proportions were quite far removed from the hominid world, and may have organized a coherent society.
Currently, the gold mine where the treasure was discovered has been abandoned. The open-pit gold mines in the Sahara are the result of a recent gold rush in Sudan, which has since cooled because the miners were not as lucky as they expected, except perhaps for the group of miners who discovered the “treasure” causing controversy. This dizziness.
