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Sometimes travel reveals something extraordinary. A view, a flavor, a moment that lingers long after the suitcase is unpacked. And occasionally, it reveals something much older than any civilization we know.
In the windswept deserts of northern Saudi Arabia, archaeologists recently uncovered something astonishing. Seven fossilized human footprints pressed into what was once a muddy lakeshore. They were left there roughly 115,000 years ago, long before cities, roads, or even most of the migrations that shaped the human story.
