Before reaching the summit Tafoughalte few cool enough, received a turning point from the north (in the case come from the hand of a Berkane), is that the way to zegzel, the village that fall within the scope Amoartan, first located the cave called «cave bathroom», which derives its name from the large number of pigeons who lives inside,
which is the most important of the archaeological sites, the entrance to the valley zegzel and close to the village Tafoughalte , a subsidiary of the influence of the territory of the Berkane and about 55 km northwest of Oujda, was discovered in 1908 by Dr. Bnchon, but credited explored for the first time back for «Abby Roche AG »held in the forties of the last century, to unfold with this pristine cave, a large part of the secrets of the old man who settled African land thousands of years ago, a man Tafoughalte also calls banners field here relative to the region.
Perhaps unknown to many visitors to the site, is that the entrance to the cave is fenced, which is the interface tourist visitors is only part of the cave major, which covers the main entrance dense trees, which is away from the entrance of the first steps only,
but its location in a steep descent makes accessible a form of risk without equipment, which prompted authorities to refuse to allow open to visitors from non-specialists and scientists from Alerkyulugiyn, note that the most important discoveries took place through the second entrance and not the first.
Resulted in scientific research built on the site the results of the task, allowed the world to discover something of his identity immemorial,
where studies have shown punish a group of civilizations on the site, and since the Middle Paleolithic remains the most important is the civilization «Alaepromaurizah» which proved its existence Active between 21900 and 10800 years ago the current period.
Also discovered a team of researchers in 2007 a new set of ornaments is considered the oldest in the world after the first group discovered the year 2003 and it comes to the discovery of about 20 of shellfish marine used by ancient man jewelery, in the context of archaeological research carried out by the Moroccan Institute of Archaeology and Heritage, in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and that during the period 24 March to 24 April 2008 along Archiology ancient aged between 84 and 85 thousand years, making it the oldest in the world, and makes it a cave bathroom unique of its kind in the Maghreb.
Add to that the cave is a treasure scientifically privilege on the grounds that the first successful surgery on a human skull (hole skull) has within this corridor shale natural,
as was parallel with the discovery of a burial space dedicated to children numbered five, and dated by about 12 thousand years ago, a what can uncover the habits and behavior of ancient man, allowing a deeper understanding of how the evolution of its kind.