Eritrea: National Museum Discovers Significant Animal and Human Fossils

28 December 2010

Asmara — The Eritrean National Museum has discovered a jaw and teeth of a missing link of an extinct elephant family, as well as human frontal lobe and chick bone in both the Northern Red Sea region and the Southern region.

In a press conference he gave, the Head of the national museum, Dr. Yosef Libsekal, explained that the discoveries were made during field studies conducted on December 2010 through Eritrean and Italian archeologists. He further indicated that the fossils of the extinct elephant family were unearthed at the site of Mai-Ghebro near Mendefera town in the Southern region, while the remains of human frontal lobe and chick bone was discovered at the site of Mulhuli-Amo in Ma'ebele area, Northern Red Sea region.

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