It's a skull dating back to 210 thousand years at a time when Europe was occupied by Neanderthals.

Researchers have found the earliest example of our species outside Africa.

A skull has been discovered in Greece, dating back 210,000 years, at a time when Europe was conquered by Neanderthals.

The sensational discovery adds testimony to an earlier migration of people from Africa who left no trace of the DNA of living people today. These findings are published in Nature magazine.

Researchers discovered two important fossils in the Apidime Cave in Greece in the 1970s.

One was very distorted, and the other incomplete, however, had to become a computerized scan of the tomography and of the uranium series that revealed their secrets.

The fullest skull seems to be a Neanderthal. But the other shows clear characteristics, such as a round turn in the skull, the diagnosis of modern people.

Modern people abandoned Africa long ago.

Moreover, the Neanderthal skull was younger.

Chris Stinger from the London Natural History Museum, which is a coauthor of this research, says that according to their scenario, it turns out: In Greece there was a modern early group of 210,000 years ago, probably linked to the populations of Levant, which was later replaced by a Neanderthal population (represented by Apidima 2) about 170,000 years ago.

Apidim 2 seems to be a Neanderthal and is more recent than modern human skulls.

People who do not live in Africa are based on their background on migration that left the continent 60,000 years ago.

As these modern people expanded along Eurasia, they largely replaced other species they encountered, such as Neanderthals and Denisov.

But this was not the first migration of modern people from Africa.

Early fossils from Skhul and Qafzeh in Israel were dated in the 1990s between 90,000 and 125,000 years ago.

In recent years, however, we have come to realize that our species went out of Africa even earlier and beyond we would have believed.

In recent years paleontologists have discovered modern human fossils from Daoxian and Zhirendong in China dating from between 80,000 and 120,000 years ago.

DNA studies have revealed signs of early combination between African and Neanderthal people. Evidence from German Neanderthals shows that the mixture occurred between 219,000 and 460,000 years ago, although it is not clear whether species (Homo sapiens) were involved or was another early African group. /Periscopi/