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Remarkable graveyard discovery: 5,000-year-old 'monumental' cemetery stuns archaeologists

By James Rogers

Published August 21, 2018
FoxNews.com

Archaeologists have uncovered a large ancient cemetery in Kenya that sheds new light on the area’s early culture.

Researchers from Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History discovered the graveyard, described as the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in Eastern Africa. The find at the Lothagam North Pillar Site near Lake Turkana has surprised experts, offering new details of the ancient herders that used the cemetery.

 

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