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A 4,000-year-old wall reshapes North Africa’s history

So, new excavations at Oued Beht in north-west Morocco have uncovered North Africa’s earliest known large-scale construction likely built for defence beyond the Nile Valley. Dating back roughly 4,000 to 3,500 years, the ditch, rampart and wall suggest local communities were protecting strategic places and managing competition over land and resources. The discovery adds to evidence that Oued Beht was already a major farming and craft hub thousands of years earlier. And here’s the fascinating twist: the defensive structure was rebuilt in medieval times, when people also lived and buried their dead nearby.
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