Toshka Lakes (one of Mubarek's water projects):
Posted on 12/03/2010 4:09:49 AM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.metrum.org/mapping/sahara.htm
...Our knowledge of the ancient Sahara was revolutionized by the publication, in 1957, or the results of Henri Lhote’s investigations of the rock paintings of the central Sahara. These paintings indicate that there was a time when chariots drawn by horses crossed the Sahara from the Mediterranean coast to the river Niger. This indicates that the process of dissication of the Sahara had reached a point in which transportation by river was no longer possible from the Great Chots to the Ahaggar and from there to the Niger, but the land could still support horses. One principle used by Lhote in dating this chariot route is the fact that the horses are portrayed on the rock painting according to style conventions that occur in Mycenaean art. Lhote assumes that the Mycenaeans, like the Greeks who followed them, had colonized Cyrenaica and that from there had advanced into the Sahara area...
Thanks! That’s a cool image.
Really! LOL.
I have long thought that flooding the Qattara Depression in Egypt would be a great project.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5641333_qattara-depression.html
I have long thought that flooding the Qattara Depression in Egypt would be a great project.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_5641333_qattara-depression.html
Not only drove ‘em, no doubt they invented ‘em, just as they invented ballet. ;’)
Toshka Lakes (one of Mubarek's water projects):
Someone posted a link about this on an old thread I visited yesterday. I remember the billboards for this tourist trap, never visited it though:
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