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Remains of 5,000-year-old farming society as large as ancient Troy discovered in Morocco

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Archaeologists in Morocco have discovered the remains of a 5,000-year-old farming society.

It is the oldest site of its kind ever discovered in Africa outside the Nile Valley .

The people who lived at the site were farmers who grew barley, wheat, peas, olives and pistachios.