Drive west about two hours from the vibrant souks of Marrakech and you will reach the small village of Tlet Ighoud. The rural community stretches along the intersection of two narrow, minor highways. If you follow one of them north for a couple miles, you’ll find an old pit from an abandoned mining operation. In this arid region, the site’s tumble of red and orange rocks seems like nothing special, but it was here, more than 60 years ago, that miners uncovered what appeared to be a human skull. The…
