Excavation operations at the area of Khamis Bani Sa'ad in Tehama district of Hodeidah province have discovered over a thousand of rare archaeological pieces dating back to 300 thousand years BC.

A French expert said that some pieces indicated that the area's inhabitants had been fishermen not farmers as they are now, but the most important discovery is a horse tooth and what is amazing here is that this kind of horses dose not live currently in this area but in the Middle Asia.

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Over thousand rare ancient archaeological pieces found in Tehama


He confirmed that such animals lived here long times ago and left the area due to a climate change, noting that such matter would open several scopes for new studies on the field of climate change in Yemen.

The expert pointed out the site is the oldest and the largest one in the Arab peninsula.