100,000 year old human skull discovered near Rabat

A 100,000 year old human skull has been recently discovered in Harhoura, some 15 km south of Rabat.

The scalp was discovered by a team of searchers from the Moroccan institute of archeological sciences and heritage and searchers from the French archeology institute, in a cave in Harhoura.

Two skeletons, dating back to 600,000 BC, were discovered in the cave in 1978, and two other skeletons were unearthed in 1996.

Three archeological caves exist in this area.