[lee martell]

Oh, you said Mega-Lakes,
Not MAGA-Lakes....Got it.

Now that you bring it up, rumor is the Sahara Desert was lush and green with plant life, rivers and even forests about 11K years ago. Some think farmers and their grazing animals turned every place they lived into scrub and desert land over time.

[JeanLM]

The population of the world 11K years ago couldn’t have made the Sahara a desert. Climate changes without man’s influence is the jist of the article.

Right now there is a huge aquifer under the sahara that the Lybians tapped in a huge water project. Water comes and goes all around the world depending on weather and other factors beyond our models and influence.

[JeanLM]

https://www.water-technology.net/projects/gmr/

Libyan project

[SunkenCiv]

from the Sahara keyword:

• Entomologist Confirms First Saharan Farming 10,000 Years Ago [2018]
• More Evidence of a Wet Sahara [2017]
• Fossil of massive crocodile found on edge of Sahara desert [2016]
• A Carpet of Stone Tools in the Sahara [2015]
• Ancient Africans used 'no fly zones' to bring herds south [2015]
• NASA video shows how dust from Sahara Desert fuels Amazon rain forest [2015]
• Violence and climate change in prehistoric Egypt and Sudan [2014]
• Ancient bone fragments help describe diet, health of Saharan ancestors [2014]
• Study Confirms Ancient River Systems in Sahara 100,000 Years Ago [2013]
• Mineral dust plays key role in cloud formation and chemistry [2013]
• Lost Civilization Discovered in Sahara Desert [2011]
• Ancient Egypt was destroyed by drought, discover Scottish experts [2011]
• Fish Swam the Sahara, Bolstering Out of Africa Theory [2010]
• Lost Cities of the Sahara [2010]
• Geology Picture of the Week Extra: GoogleEarth searcher finds pristine impact crater in Egypt [2010]
• Strange Ancient Crocodiles Swam the Sahara [2009]
• Stone Age humans crossed Sahara in the rain [2009]
• Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin [2009]
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period [2008]
• Graves Found From Sahara's Green Period [2008]
• US scientists find stone age burial ground in Sahara [2008]
• In Search Of The Lost Sahara [2008]
• Once Lush Sahara Dried Up Over Millennia, Study Says [2008]
• Sahara dried out slowly, not abruptly: study [2008]
• The Tassili n'Ajjer [Algeria] : birthplace of ancient Egypt ? [2008]
• Egypt's Earliest Agricultural Settlement Unearthed [2008]
• UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara's prehistoric art [2008]
• Ruins of 7,000-year-old city found in Egypt oasis [2008]
• Maltese claims extraordinary discovery in Sahara desert [2007]
• Space Data Unveils Evidence of Ancient Mega-lake in Northern Darfur [2007]
• The African Source Of The Amazon's Fertilizer [2006]
• Exodus From Drying Sahara Gave Rise to Pharaohs, Study Says [2006]
• Sahara Desert Was Once Lush and Populated [2006]
• Ancient lakes of the Sahara [2006]
• Ancient drought 'changed history' [2005]
• Stone Age Cemetery, Artifacts Un Earthed In Sahara [2005]
• Prehistoric Desert Town Found In Western Sahara (15,000 Years Old) [2004]
• Scientists Explore Lakefront Property, in the Sahara [2004]
• African Ice Core Analysis Reveals Catastrophic Droughts, Shrinking Ice Fields, Civilization Shifts [2002]

[ckilmer]

the new numbers are about 5500 years ago. The sahara then dried up in only a couple centuries or less

[Ozark Tom]

The Sahara has a regular periodic water cycle which reached peak rainfall about 20,000 years back. There are many fresh water aquifers within reach of deep-well pumping systems. Some produce a scalding hot sanitized outflow when tapped.