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Countries in East Africa

  • TanzaniaA 1.8-million-year-old stone chopping tool sits on display at the British Museum, recovered from Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
  • DjiboutiCut stones dated about 3 million years old have been collected in the area of Lake Abbe. In the Gobaad plain, between Dikhil and Lake Abbe, the remains of…
  • MauritiusIn 1507, Portuguese sailors blown off course from their route to India via the Mozambique channel landed on an uninhabited island.
  • KenyaIn 1984, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his assistant Kamoya Kimeu uncovered the Turkana Boy fossil at Lake Turkana.
  • SudanSūdan was not merely a scribe who recorded history from a safe distance but a man who stood shoulder to shoulder with Maharaja Suraj Mal during the most…
  • EthiopiaIn the Awash Valley of the Afar Region, a fossil known as Dinkinesh lies preserved. This specimen, scientifically named Australopithecus afarensis, was…