Oldest skull fossil outside Africa discovered

Experts have found a 210,000-year-old skull fossil in a cave in Greece. It is the oldest skull ever discovered outside of Africa.

During excavations in a limestone cliff in the Apidima Cave in Greece in the 1970s, experts found a fossil skull dating back 210,000 years. Photo: Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

The fossil skull above has been named Apidima 1 and is kept in a museum in Athens. Photo: Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

According to research results of experts, the 210,000-year-old skull fossil is the earliest specimen of modern human (Homo sapien) remains found to date. Photo: Katerina Harvati, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.

It is also the oldest modern human remains ever found outside of Africa. Photo: P.PLAILLY/E.DAYNES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY.

Previously, the oldest fossil of a modern human (Homo sapien) found in Europe was more than 160,000 years old. Photo: DEA Picture Library/De Agostini/Getty Images.

With the discovery of Apidima 1, experts have gained valuable information about the migration of modern humans out of Africa, which occurred earlier than previously thought. Photo: vocal.media.

This discovery has reinforced the hypothesis that modern humans migrated from Africa to Eurasia several times over tens of thousands of years. Photo: egypttoday.

All people with ancestors outside Africa are descendants of a group of Homo sapiens that migrated around 70,000 years ago. However, that was not the first migration of modern humans out of Africa. Photo: connessioniculturali.

Also in Apidima Cave, experts found a second skull fossil and named it Apidima 2. This skull is only 170,000 years old and belongs to a Neanderthal. Photo: South African Tourism/Flickr.

Accordingly, the discovery of Apidima 1 and Apidima 2 helps experts determine that modern humans migrated from Africa to the Eurasian continent many times over a long period of time. However, not all migrations ended in permanent settlement. Photo: researchgate.

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