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The most bizarre phenomena on Earth
The accumulation of lava at a rapid rate beneath the volcano in Bolivia, concentric circles in the Sahara desert are some geological phenomena that scientists cannot exp…
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Found the true age of the Sahara desert?
Climate models show that the Sahara desert seems to have formed about 7 million years ago, which is twice as old as it has been known for a long time.
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The wild world on the Sahara desert
The image of the Sahara in many people's minds is a vast desert of sand dunes but in fact the terrain is quite diverse.
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Found a large lake in the Sahara desert
Between the Sahara Desert, in the northwestern Sudan, a large lake of approximately the size of Lake Bai can be found. Most impressive is the lake with water. The lake i…
1001 mystery
The mystery has no answer in the Sahara's eyes
The eye of the Sahara or the Blue Eye of Africa is another term for the Richat structure, which is a circular shape, more than 40km in diameter, located near the town of…
1001 mystery
The mysterious circular stone in Africa
A photo taken from the International Space Station shows a giant circular and reddish-brown rocky area that appears to the west of the black continent.
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The mystery of the Sahara jungle
The Sahara of Africa is the largest desert in the world, where there seems to be no vegetation, no water but only a yellow color of sand. But recently, the United Nation…
Oceanography
Sahara desert sandstorm sustains life in the Atlantic Ocean
Research by the University of Liverpool found that the Sahara desert sandstorm helps sustain life across a large area of the North Atlantic.
Archeology
Ancient stone steles in the
Meroitic is the oldest written language in the southern Sahara region where humans are currently only partially decoding. N
Archeology
Tutankhamun's beetle pendant is made from comets
The long history of the intact pendant was only discovered by thorough research from many industries.
Archeology
Dairy cattle 7,000 years
The results of the chemical analysis of ceramics helped to determine the first evidence of the habit of raising dairy cattle in Africa about 7000 years ago. According to…
Archeology
Discover medieval castle
Recently British archaeologists have discovered medieval castles in the Sahara desert in southwestern Libya.
Archeology
The oldest flying killer ever lived in Africa
The oldest ancient flying reptile ever lived in the Sahara desert in Africa a few dozen million years ago.
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Sahara used to be green and inhabited
Scientists have just discovered the skeleton of a small woman hugging two children, lying on a flower bed 5000 years ago in the barren Sahara desert today.