The Sahara: Earth’s Greatest Desert

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Source/Further reading:

Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/place/Sahara-desert-Africa

Live Science, overview: https://www.livescience.com/23140-sahara-desert.html

Ancient caravan routes: https://www.ancient.eu/article/1344/the-camel-caravans-of-the-ancient-sahara/

Phys.org, Sahara swung between lush and dry conditions: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-sahara-swung-lush-conditions-years.html

USGS, The antiquity of the Sahara Desert: https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/antiquity-sahara-desert-new-evidence-mineralogy-and-geochemistry-pliocene-paleosols

Guardian, Sahara was home to some of largest sea creatures: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/12/sahara-was-home-to-some-of-largest-sea-creatures-study-finds

Smithsonian, what really turned the Sahara into a wasteland? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-really-turned-sahara-desert-green-oasis-wasteland-180962668/

Smithsonian “The Sahara Is Millions of Years Older Than Thought”: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science/sahara-millions-years-older-thought-180952735

The Sahara’s ancient rock art: https://africanrockart.britishmuseum.org/regional_introduction/rock-art-in-northern-africa/

io9, more on ancient rock art: https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-happened-to-the-mysterious-humans-of-the-sahara-7-563577739

Garamantes civilization: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/05/gaddafi-sahara-lost-civilisation-garamantes

Berber civilization; https://www.ancient.eu/Berbers/

Almoravid culture: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Almoravids

NASA, how Saharan dust feeds the Amazon’s plants: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazon-s-plants

How dust screws with your health: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/concerned-saharan-dust-plume-crucial-to-ecosystem/

An old, but interesting, long-read from the Atlantic on the desert: https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/extreme.htm

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