Thousands of years ago, people lived in a massive lava tube
The Umm Jirsan lava tube system (Picture: Palaeodeserts Project, CC-BY 4.0)
Early herdsmen were using a volcanic lava tube to shelter from fierce desert sun at least 7,000 years ago, new research reveals.
Lava tubes are caves left behind by underground lava flows – at one time, a river of lava rather through the rock, but as it drained away, it left a huge tunnel behind.
The bones, etchings and other artefacts discovered in the tube in what is now Saudi Arabia are among the first...
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