‘Empty land’ theory shattered as 4,400-year-old settlement find rewrites history
Evidence from the Kach Kouch site marks the first well-documented instance of continuous settlement in the Maghreb.
A groundbreaking excavation has revealed what is believed to be the first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb region of North Africa, an area historically overlooked in studies of this era. The significant discovery holds major implications for the established understanding of African history.
Previously considered an “empty land” prior to the arrival of the Phoenicians, a research initiative supported by the University of Barcelona has now identified a Bronze Age site in northwest Morocco that predates their presence. Recent excavations have definitively established that Kach Kouch, with the exception of Egypt, stands as the earliest known site of its kind in Mediterranean Africa.