Neanderthal footprints found in Gibraltar. 29,000 years old. Second set ever found. The Vârtop Cave footprint of a Neandertal in Romania is 62,000 years old.
(Damn. I forgot the Vârtop Cave one, and that was at my peak post in 2005.)
It would be incredibly interesting if that footprint in Egypt really did turn out to be two million years old and from the Homo genus, but it seems highly unlikely. The story says that the footprint has yet to be independently verified, and now matter how dogmatic i can be about humans being a hell of a lot older than they are conventionally accepted to be, Egypt can be a bit nationalist in its archaeology.
