Middle East Monitor
December 8, 2022 at 1:46 pm
The National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage in Morocco yesterday announced the discovery of skeletal remains of the Atlas lion, also known as the Barbary lion, dating back 110,000 years.
The institute said: “A team of researchers at the institute and researchers from the University of Arizona, USA, and the University of Aix-Marseille, France, were able to find bone remains of the Atlas Lion within archaeological levels dating back between 110,000 and 100,000 years at the Bizmoune site in Essaouira.”