The oldest man in the world

At a distance of 40 kilometers from Johannesburg are the Sterkfontein caves, these caves are an important link of human civilization. 

The bones of the world's oldest human were found in Morocco's Jebel Irhod (Irhod). The age of the bones was 360,000 years. Anthropologists estimated from them that man came into his present form 350,000 years ago. Now the question is The answer to what man was like before, South Africa's Strickfontein CaveThese caves were discovered in 1890. 

Limestone prospectors began excavating at Sterkfontein and suddenly discovered vast caverns underground, the caves weren't just caves, they were witchcraft and the witchcraft was speaking from the mouth where life once ran, ran and squirmed. In 1936 researchers descended into these caves and in 1947 oneThe female skeleton was discovered by Professor Raymond Dart and Dr. Robert Broom, and the female skeleton was named Mrs. Pless. 

That woman was 20 million years old and she was a link between man and man, this type of man is called Australopithecine, she walked on two legs like man but her brain was small and body like man. Was, she did not know how to speak, Mrs. Phyllis was a great discovery and her furtherDubbed the mother of pre-humans, the discovery spurred further research, hundreds of students descended into the caves, and in 1994 the first complete 3.5-million-year-old skeleton was found. 

The structure, named "Little Foot," was that of a 30-year-old woman with regular heel bones, a discovery even bigger than Mrs. Phyllis, he told anthropologists. had started walking upright but their hands were longer and stronger than their feet and thisThey used to climb trees and rocks like lizards. 

"Littlefoot" had fallen asleep on a rock, fell into a cave in her sleep, and limestone fell on top of her, slowly covering her body, Dr. Ronald J. Clarke in 1994. His first bone was found and he began to search for the rest of her body, until in 1997 his body was almostCompleted, the bones were joined and it was found that during the "Little Foot" era, a man was four feet tall. 

The heel was added to its feet, it could walk straight, but it could also climb rocks and trees like lizards, this was the second important discovery and after this discovery, the bridge to the caves of the scientist Sterk. And they discovered 500 pre-humans, these humans were in the form of fossilsAnd they were buried in limestone rocks, fossils of various animals and insects were also found in the caves, this discovery is considered the most important human discovery till date. 

On Friday 9th September I went with Dr. Kashif Mustafa to Sturkfontein Caves, this cave consists of two parts, the first part is in the form of a museum, it is called Maropeng and ten kilometers from Sturk Caves. Yes, it is an anthropology museum and it contains all the periods of human life so far. Where did life begin, what steps did humans go through to reach the present form, how did we learn to speak, eat, drink and live, what is the difference between the psychology of men and women, how did we come to cave houses and humans? What stages of development did it go through? All this information is contained in this museum, the second part of the visitThere are caves in Sterkfontein, this is a guided tour. 

Tourists cannot enter the cave without a guide, we were first fitted with heavy iron helmets and then told that if you suffer from heart, respiratory or bone diseases or are afraid of dark and narrow spaces Don't make the mistake of going into these caves, the guide tried his best to scare us but DrBecause Kashif Mustafa had already passed this stage before, he encouraged me. I had previously visited the underground cities of Catacomb of Alexandria and Cappadocia, so I did not feel too afraid, but when we Descending into the cave, all my guesses were proved wrong, this place is really scary and difficultYes, that place was a normal type of field, there were bushes and trees everywhere on the right and left, and between these trees suddenly came a small entrance to the cave. 

Inside the ledge were rocky steps, as soon as we entered, the steps slowly took us 60 meters down and sixty meters below a different world was waiting for us. The rocks were overhanging, we used to look up and our hearts would fall into our mouthsAnd when you looked right and left, the pulse started beating in your ears, the journey was very difficult, you had to walk with your head bowed down, there were eight or ten places where you had to crawl with your feet and hands like a cat to pass. , there were still thousands of fossils on the rocks, water was leaking from the roofs in some places, insideIn the distance was a long lake of water. 

The guide said that this lake is seven kilometers long, but its depth could not be estimated until today. In 2005, a young man named Duishau drowned in the lake. He entered the water to measure the depth of the lake and then three His body was found weeks later, before a young man named Peter Hussell went missing in the cave in 1984Gaya, he too could not come out alive so after two incidents one cannot even enter the cave without a guide and can't even descend into the lake. And there was a reflection of the roof of the cave. 

It was a life time experience by torch light and we could not have seen the lake if the guide had not told us because it also felt like a cave in the atmosphere of the cave, the guide took us from the lake to another corner of the cave. And he suddenly turned off the flashlight, Oh my God, I have never seen so much darkness in my lifeThere was not even a ray of light and only the guide's voice echoed in the darkness, saying that if you stay in this place for a month, your sight will be completely lost. 

The fossil found at this place had no eyes. Hearing this, my body trembled. The rest of our group also started breathing loudly. The guide also lit the torch and this small light lit up the entire cave. Made light, even if we humans continue to be thankful for our sight, we are thousandsI can't thank my Lord for years, I felt the blessing of sight for the first time in my life, the temperature inside the cave was 18 degrees Celsius, but there was a feeling of humidity inside, where was the oxygen coming from inside the cave? ? This decision was difficult but the guide said, there is a waterfall at the far end of the lake and thatfalls in a nearby village. 

There were holes in different parts of the cave and light was coming in from there, but the number of these places was very few and the height was also high, only birds could enter from these places. There were humans living before humans, Allah made them like lizards to climb up and downThey were given the ability to descend, they could crawl like cats, although they could come and go in the caves, but they were deprived of the blessings of food, drink and fire, perhaps that is why weapons, utensils and No signs of fire were found, those humans would eat raw meat, vegetables and fruits like animalsThey will live naked like animals and live like animals. 

Anthropologists call these two places the "Cradle of Humankind". Researchers claim that humans arrived in the rest of the world from Africa, perhaps that's why all the ancient structures of humans came out of Africa. Discovered in Africa, a full woman named Lucy came from Ethiopia andThe present form of man was found in the mountains of Morocco, while the earliest civilization of man was the Aborigines of Australia and their genes were also African, and we saw all our past that day in the Cradle of Human Kind, what we were and by the grace of Allah. What have we become? How much mercy has Allah bestowed on us, O Lord of yoursThere are millions of blessings, millions of blessings.