Stone Age granaries found in Egypt

Archaeologists in Egypt have found eight Stone Age grain stores at an oasis southwest of Cairo that help show the shift from hunting to agricultural societies, the Ministry of Culture reported.

The ministry said the discovery was made by a team from the University of California at Los Angeles in an area north of Fayoum, 60 miles (100 kilometers) southwest of Cairo, where 67 grain stores were found in 1926.

“The well-preserved nature of these stores helped experts to understand the transformation of societies, from depending on hunting to a stable agricultural society,” government antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said in the statement.

The statement did not say when the discovery was made.