According to current knowledge, our ancestors first appeared in eastern Africa, where the oldest, human-like fossils were found. They are believed to have then left the continent in successive migrations, eventually spreading across the planet and beginning their domination of the world. However, historians and paleo... |
10 November 2009
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Engineers have recently unveiled a plan that a few years back might have seemed like a joke – to build a wall to mark the spread of the Sahara desert, so that the dunes stop spreading over yet-unaffected ground. The problem appears all over the Saharan borders, as fields and families are being displaced by the ... |
24 July 2009
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Anthropologists and paleontologists have known for a long time that the desolate stretches of inhospitable sand that make up the Sahara desert hide a large number of amazing artifacts, dating from as far back as the age of the dinosaurs. While other excavation sites revealed the ancient history of Egypt, a particular... |
17 December 2008
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Archaeologists uncovered remains of what they think was part of a wider network of water channels that ran through the Sahara desert thousands of years ago. Visible only from satellite, the channels could have offered H. sapiens a safe path out of Africa, where the first humans evolved. Other pieces of evidence sugge... |
15 October 2008
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The lack of rain on Saharan soil has been linked to the presence of two newly-discovered iberulites in the atmosphere above the desert. The two types of microscopic dust specs tend to bind to the water in the air and cause little humidity, as well as little chances for heavy rain over the desert. The particles are em... |
6 October 2008
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Today, Sahara is a huge desert area, with erratic dunes (ergs) and plains covered by rugged rocks (hamada), punctuated by mountains with heights of up to 3,400 m (11,000 ft), covering 8.8 million square kilometers (3.3 million square miles), a surface bigger than that of Australia. At great distances one from another... |
9 May 2008
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At the beginning of the 17th century, a Berber tribe took refuge in a totally arid area in the heart of Sahara, 400 mi (640 km) south of Alger. The oued (temporary desert river) called Mzab, which irrigates the plateau and the dry valleys once a year, gave its name to the region and the people established here were c... |
11 April 2008
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The Tuareg makes you think about freedom, power and the vastness of the desert; Wolkswagen found its inspiration in the qualities of the proud nation of the Sahara. The Berbers, together with the ancient Egyptians, are the oldest group which settled in North Africa, coming about 10,000 years ago from southwestern Asi... |
26 June 2007
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