Olduvai Gorge

Nestled within Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Olduvai Gorge is a significant site for archaeological research, earning its reputation as the ‘cradle of humankind.’ The gorge first rose to prominence in the 1930s when paleoanthropologists Mary and Louis Leakey unearthed evidence of early human species. Since then, it has been an ongoing excavation site, revealing layers of sediment that span millions of years. Visitors today can explore the museum, which houses a collection of fossils and artifacts, and take guided tours to the gorge itself, where they can see the very ground that has yielded some of the most important discoveries in human evolution.