Manama: Archaeologists have discovered Saudi Arabia’ oldest human bone, the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) said.
The bone is believed to be have belonged to a human being who lived more than 90,000 years ago. It was discovered in Al Nafood, near Tayma where excavation work was being carried out.
“The commission is overseeing a Saudi-British project for excavation that was started in 2012,” SCTH vice President Ali Al Ghabban said on Twitter. “The project has succeeded in sorting out the chronology of archaeological sites that date to more than 500,000 years ago. Studies carried out as part of the project covered the old lakes in the Nafood desert and the Empty Quarter, and there are indications they are more than one million years old,” Saudi daily Al Riyadh reported on Wednesday.
Al Ghabban said that the excavation work carried out by the expedition discovered that the settlement at the Taas Al Ghudhat site, near Tayma, dates to around 325,000 years ago.
