Experts Uncover Evidence Of An Ancient War That Lasted 100,000 Years

When it comes to human history, war is as common as blue skies and green plants. But what about the battles waged before “history” was even recorded? A new scientific study has brought widespread attention to the possibility that thousands of years ago, there was a fight that lasted centuries. It was a war for the future, and it was a war that shaped who we are today.

Prehistoric

Evolution has always favored the fittest, even humans from eras long, long ago. Even before world economies, competition between different groups of people was fierce, and that usually took the form of war on a scale we can't imagine today.

Massive Proportions

When thinking of war from centuries ago, it's easy to assume that these were more like petty fights between tribes. But they were far more brutal — and some might go as far as to call them genocidal. The makeup of our world looks a lot different because of this fighting.

Before Sumer

The problem for historians, however, is piecing together exactly what this fighting looked like. One of the earliest wars recorded took place around southwest Asia between the nations of Elam and Sumer, around 2,700 BC. But just because it’s the earliest record doesn’t mean it was the first war to take place. People fought before people recorded the fighting.

Archaeological Battle

And since this ancient, ancient history was never written down by scribes and scholars, uncovered relics from millennia ago are the only way to know what happened pre-historically. Recent discoveries shed light on the deadly war between two unlikely pre-historic candidates.