Today, no one lives in the parched eastern Sahara desert of Egypt, Sudan, Libya, and Chad. But between 10,500 and 7,300 years ago, monsoon rains transformed this region into a lush magnet for people, a new investigation suggests.
GREEN NO MORE. New evidence indicates that regular rain in the eastern Sahara, which now includes Egypt’s Great Sand Sea shown here, made the landscape more welcoming to people 7,000 years ago than it is today.
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