[GSP.FAN]

More greenhouse gas drivel, where was Antarctica before it parked its butt on the South Pole, in a temperate climate somewhere else?

Ancient cemetery found in ‘green’ Sahara Desert.

The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons in a remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations who lived there, a thousand years apart, when the region was moist and green.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-08-14-green-sahara-cemetery_N.htm

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[calex59]

The slender arms of the youngsters were still extended to the woman in perpetual embrace when researchers discovered their skeletons in a remarkable cemetery that is providing clues to two civilizations who lived there, a thousand years apart, when the region was moist and green.

Many scientist today attribute the wearing of the Sphinx to rain water about 10,000 years ago. Egypt had heavy rain then they think and have evidence to support it.

[Vigilanteman]

Fascinating stuff, archeological digs. It is even more fascinating when it collaborates or sheds details on recorded history. We know the Numadians, Hannibal’s main allies in the Second Punic War came from the northern Sahara and it was then a fertile region. Could be those elephants Hannibal’s army used were actually SUV’s which triggered the global warming that turned the Sahara from lush semitropical farmland into a desert. :->