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Countries in North Africa

  • AlgeriaStone artifacts dating to approximately 1.8 million years old were discovered at Ain Hanech in northern Algeria, representing the oldest archaeological…
  • TunisiaThe 9th century BC marked the founding of Carthage by Phoenician settlers from Tyre, a city now located in modern-day Lebanon.
  • 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…
  • PortugalThe Cave of Aroeira in central Portugal yielded a 400,000-year-old skull of Homo heidelbergensis in 2014. This discovery proves human presence on the Iberian…
  • SpainArchaeological research at Atapuerca indicates the Iberian Peninsula was populated by hominids 1.3 million years ago. Modern humans first arrived in Iberia…
  • EgyptThe Nile River flows through a landscape that has supported human life for over ten thousand years. Evidence of rock carvings along the banks and in…