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New Fossil Found In Israel Suggests A Much Earlier Human Migration Out Of Africa

Scientists have discovered a part of a fossilized human skull that's around 180,000 years old. It is now the oldest human fossil outside Africa.
The fossil found in Misliya cave. Details of the teeth — their shapes and sizes relative to each other — helped scientists confirm that this belongs to <em>Homo sapiens</em>.

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the oldest fossil of a modern human outside Africa. The fossil suggests that humans first migrated out of the continent much earlier than previously believed.

The scientists were digging in a cave called Misliya, on the slopes of Mount Carmel on the northern coast of Israel. "The cave is one of a series of prehistoric caves," says of the Zinman Institute

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