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Oldest human footprint found
Egyptian archaeologists have found what they said could be the oldest human footprint in history in the country?s western desert, the Arab country?s antiquities? chief said recently.
?This could go back about two million years,? said Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of the Egyptian supreme council of antiquities.
?It could be the most important discovery in Egypt,? he said.
Archaeologists found the footprint, imprinted on mud and then hardened into rock, while exploring a prehistoric site in Siwa, a desert oasis. Scientists are using carbon tests on plants found in the rock to determine its exact age, Hawass said. Previously, the earliest human archaeological evidence from Egypt dated back around 200,000 years, Saad said.
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