Researchers Uncovered a Long Hidden Chamber in the Famous Gibraltar Cave

By Rain Jordan Sep 29, 2021 05:28 AM EDT

After nearly ten years of digging, an endeavor to locate hidden tunnels and chambers inside the Gorham's Cave Complex in Gibraltar has paid greatly.



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Diverse Dwellers

Neanderthals and modern people coexisted in Gorham's Cave Complex for millennia, leaving behind fossils, tools, traces of campfires, butchered animal bones, and even scratched patterns. In 2016, the cave complex was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its "exceptional testament to the habitation, cultural practices, and material culture of Neanderthal and Early Modern Human comhe tomb of Tutankhamun." He went on to say, "It's very sobering."munities over a period of more than 120,000 years."

The complex, which includes Vanguard Cave, Hyaena Cave, and Bennett's Cave, is located on the eastern side of the Rock of Gibraltar. In 2012, researchers from the Gibraltar National Museum began a study to improve cave measurements and seek undiscovered passages and chambers concealed by advancing sands. The team, led by evolutionary ecologist Clive Finlayson, discovered anything significant after nearly ten years of searching.

According to a news release, "archaeologists from the Gibraltar National Museum found a huge chamber at the far back of Vanguard Cave nine years later." In addition, "A 13-meter [42-foot] room on the cave's very ceiling has been discovered after preliminary investigation."

Unentered for 40,000 Years



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When Finlayson and his colleagues walked into "a place that no one has gone inside for 40,000 years," he described it as "almost like uncovering the tomb of Tutankhamun." He went on to say, "It's very sobering."

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