Five Moroccan Sites That Changed the Human Story
From early hominins near Casablanca to 90,000-year-old footprints at Larache, five discoveries have moved Morocco from the edge of prehistory to the centre of the human story.
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Oued Beht and the Farming Society Missing from Mediterranean History
Excavations at Oued Beht reveal a large Final Neolithic farming community and new evidence for connections across the western Mediterranean.
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The 85 Footprints at Larache
A Moroccan beach preserved 85 human footprints dating to about 90,000 years ago — a rare record of movement on the Atlantic coast.
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Jebel Irhoud and the Long Emergence of Homo sapiens
What the 315,000-year-old fossils at Jebel Irhoud reveal — and what they do not — about the long emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa.
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What Casablanca Looked Like 773,000 Years Ago
Fossils from Thomas Quarry I offer a securely dated glimpse of North African hominins living near Casablanca about 773,000 years ago.
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Ait Ben Haddou: Why One Ksar Still Explains Morocco’s Caravan Memory
A heritage feature on the architecture, geography and symbolic power of Ait Ben Haddou.
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Fez: The City That Turned Knowledge Into Urban Form
An evergreen heritage feature on Fez, the medina, craft, scholarship and the urban memory that still shapes Morocco.
