The Heritage Authority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced today that archaeologists and fossils from the authority, in cooperation with the Saudi Geological Survey, King Saud University, and the German Max Planck Institute, have made a new discovery in the Umm Jarsan Cave in Bahra Khaybar (170 km north of Medina, around which it will be published). Article in the international journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

Inside Umm Jarsan Cave, remnants of traces and fossils were found, which radiocarbon technology revealed to be more than 7000 years old. All of them are in good condition despite the passage of time, as well as human skulls, which are likely to have been exhumed from nearby prehistoric tombs.

During this period, the research team examines the bones for DNA, while the history of grazing in the Arabian Peninsula and the domestication of animals are being studied there.

This discovery comes as part of a series of discoveries by the Heritage Authority during the past period, which confirm that the Arabian Peninsula has been the home of humans for thousands of years, in addition to many domestic and non-domesticated animals that have been based in the Arabian Peninsula and have multiplied there over the years, as part of the Commission’s efforts to excavate About antiquities and the national heritage in which the Kingdom is rich, and its preservation and dissemination.