Minister of Culture, Youth and Communications, Mr. Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, has stated that the framework agreement signed with Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development is aimed at preserving national archeological heritage.
Minister Mehdi Bensaid said, on the margin of a lecture organized under the topic “The Atlas Lion, a roar that goes back to thousand years”, this agreement enters in the context of efforts deployed and increasing interest in our national heritage, which should be managed institutionally in order to restructure and preserve more this heritage.
The government official added that this agreement will allow to fight illegal marketing in addition to the creation of heritage national centers to bring closer public interest in this science, pointing out to increase competencies and rich heritage resources about humans, animals and plants, which make of the Moroccan Kingdom a fertile land for more discoveries and desire to understand past eras.
In the same context, Minister Bensaid has praised efforts made by Moroccan researchers at the National Institute for Archeology and Heritage, and also reinforcement of international cooperation in this field of great interest; making clear that archeological bones discovered in Bezemzen caves, were once of lions in Moroccan forests from Tetouan to Eassaouira and then should be preserved.
According to a presentation paper at the lecture and exhibition, many archeological sites are famous for their world value, their archeological richness and wide variety of animals which had lived thousand years back, while the bones remains discovered about the Atlas Lion may have dated of more than two million years back.