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New Evidence for Earlier Domestication of the Camel!

SHARJAH, UAE:  Archaeologists are unearthing answers to one of the Arab region’s biggest historical mysteries – the origin of the domesticated dromedary. According to 3,000-year-old evidence discovered at two excavation sites in Sharjah, people in what is now the UAE were probably the first to domesticate the wild camel. A team from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia has been digging …

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