Egypt
- More Re Drying Of The Sahara
Scientific American In a finding that may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change, research published in Science shows how the Sahara Desert, a region as big as the U.S. that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea across northern...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Origins Of Egyptian Civilization Found In The Western Desert?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325861.300Thanks very much to Mark Morgan for pointing me to the following article: "It was February 1999, and Carlo Bergmann had spent five days wandering through the desert with just his camels for company....
- Climate Change In The Prehistoric Sahara
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article625034.ece This article summarizes and includes extracts from a book about the impacts of climate change - The Last Generation by Fred Pearce, published by Transworld . The write-up also offers a brief...
- Prehistoric Sahara Teeming With Life
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.htmlThis may be of interest to anyone interested in the prehistory of the Western Desert of Egypt, with many of the same conclusions being drawn here for Libya, as have been drawn...
Egypt
More re Science feature on Saharan prehistory
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060720-sahara.html
Thanks very much to Mark Morgan for pointing out this rather more comprehensive insight into the Science article featuring the work of Stefan Kropelin and Rudolph Kuper in the Western Desert. The two page piece on the National Geographic website describes some of the conclusions about the impacts of climate change on the development of Pharaonic Egypt: "Without rain, rivers, or the ephemeral desert streams known as waddis, vegetation became sparse, and people had to leave the desert or die, Kröpelin says. Members of this skilled human population settled near the Nile River, giving rise to the first pharaonic cultures in Egypt."
See the above page for more.
Also covered on the BBC website at:
Also covered on the BBC website at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5192410.stm
- More Re Drying Of The Sahara
Scientific American In a finding that may help scientists better predict the pace of climate change, research published in Science shows how the Sahara Desert, a region as big as the U.S. that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea across northern...
- Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia
National Geographic (James Owen) The grassy prehistoric Sahara turned into Earth's largest hot desert more slowly than previously thought, a new report says—and some say global warming may turn the desert green once again. The new research is based...
- Origins Of Egyptian Civilization Found In The Western Desert?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325861.300Thanks very much to Mark Morgan for pointing me to the following article: "It was February 1999, and Carlo Bergmann had spent five days wandering through the desert with just his camels for company....
- Climate Change In The Prehistoric Sahara
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article625034.ece This article summarizes and includes extracts from a book about the impacts of climate change - The Last Generation by Fred Pearce, published by Transworld . The write-up also offers a brief...
- Prehistoric Sahara Teeming With Life
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/earth_sciences/report-54055.htmlThis may be of interest to anyone interested in the prehistory of the Western Desert of Egypt, with many of the same conclusions being drawn here for Libya, as have been drawn...