Oldest Home in Human History Has Been Found | Mysterious Universe

Scientists have discovered the oldest home in human history and it was in a cave. Located in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert is the Wonderwerk Cave and that’s where ancient humans made their home around two million years ago. While the inhabitants of the cave weren’t modern humans, the researchers believe that they were probably
australopithecines or
Homo Habilis.
It was a team of geologists and archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI) and the University of Toronto who made this discovery. Incredibly, the cave was used as a home for several millions of years throughout history. What’s even more amazing is that they found evidence of the earliest use of fire and hand axes in a “cave context”.

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