World's Oldest Bedding Discovered in Cave - World's oldest beds show creative thinking. Archaeologists dig up an intriguing 77,000-year-old find in a South African cave.The oldest known bedding — sleeping mats made of mosquito-repellant evergreens that are about 77,000 years old — has been discovered in a South African cave. This use of medicinal plants, along with other artifacts at the cave, helps reveal how creative these early peoples were, researchers said.

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