World's Oldest Matress Discovered

The picture above is of the bedding leaves encased in a plaster jacket. This mattress made of reeds and rushes estimated to be about 77,000 years old was discovered by a team of archaeologists at Sibudu Caves in South Africa. These caves were the spot where a 64 000-year-old stone arrow tipswas were uncovered not so long ago. Whats-more they found a medicinal plant that contains attributes of insect-killing chemicals, gathered from the tree Cryptocarya woodii. This must have been used as to protect the sleeping from mosquitoes and other dangerous creepy crawlies. The whole family would have slept on the well made bed, which were large enough to accommodate such a sleeping arrangement.