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Archaeologists discover 115,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia

2025-12-21 21:41:00, Kuriozitete CNA

Archaeologists discover 115,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia

A uniquely preserved prehistoric mud pit may hold the oldest human footprints ever found on the Arabian Peninsula, scientists say.

The seven footprints, found among a pile of hundreds of prehistoric animal tracks, are estimated to be 115,000 years old.

Many fossils and wind-blown artifacts have come from situations like this particular lake bed in northern Saudi Arabia. Archaeologists discovered the site, deep in the Nefud Desert in a place called "traces" in Arabic, in 2017 after time and weather eroded the surface sediment.

It is easy to imagine that a muddy lake bed was a high-traffic area on the Arabian Peninsula over 100,000 years ago.

When populations move, these traces are left behind until they are covered over. In the much, much older Burgess Shale event, some of the oldest organisms ever found were preserved intact because they likely fell into a mudslide and were killed instantly./CNA 





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