{{Latest discovery of fossils in the region now make archeologists increasingly believe the East African Rift Valley is the Garden of Eden referred to in holy books.}}
Archeologists from Europe, America and Africa have discovered 19 fossils within the rift valley, covering Ngorongoro District in Tanzania and parts of Kenya as well as Ethiopia.
Archeological researchers told visiting journalists at Olduvai Gorge that the newly discovered fossils made Ngorongoro alone home to 79 of them.
Prof Phidelis Masao from the University of Dar es Salaam said the latest fossils discovered at Olduvai and Laetoli continue to suggest that the valleys were the human cradle.
The Olduvai and Laetoli discovery along with the ongoing ones at Turkana and Afaa in Kenya and Ethiopia, respectively, date back to 1913.
“Save for Ngorongoro, there is no other place worldwide where 3.6-million-year-old footprints have been discovered,” he said.
The Germans were the first to carry out discovery operations on the valleys followed by Dr Louis Leaky and his wife Mary, who obtained 60 human fossils.
Experts from Germany, Spain, France, the US, Italy, South Africa, and Tanzania specialised in fossils, geology, environment and weather operating at the area agree the valley was the Garden of Eden.
Prof Robert Blumeuschine from the South African Palaeontological Scientific Trust (Past), said Ngorongoro was an important area in the history of the world.
All seasoned experts would be flocking to the gorge to learn a number of things pertaining to the history of mankind, he said.
NMG
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