Discover how Africa is combatting the encroachment of the Sahara Desert in this insightful video. - **0:00** Introduction - * ...

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In the middle of the 19 th century, the German explorer Heinrich Barth discovered prehistoric Saharan rock sculptures and engravings while traveling through the Sahara Desert in North Africa. Barth, ...

Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is now Morocco's Sahara Desert. This discovery ...

Between 11,000 and 5,000 years ago, a wobble in Earth’s orbit turned the Sahara into a lusher environment than it is today. It was the African Humid Period, during which ancient humans painted ...

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

It was primarily caused by orbital changes in the Earth’s axial tilt, which strengthened the African monsoon system. Moist air was drawn further north into the Sahara, which turned the desert into a ...