A mysterious 4,000-year-old wall is rewriting North Africa's history
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Excavations at Oued Beht in Morocco have uncovered a substantial defensive structure dating to around 4,000 to 3,500 years ago, the earliest known large-scale defensive construction in North Africa beyond the Nile Valley. The discovery pushes back evidence for organized architecture in the Maghreb and suggests communities at this time were more complex and structured than previously believed.
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