Ancient Cave Discovery Reveals That 8,000 Years Ago, the Sahara Was Green

Scitech Daily ^ | March 10, 2025 | University of Oxford

[Red Badger]

PinGGG!.......................

[z3n]

Climate change IS real.

It’s just not anthropogenic

[DCBryan1]

"I have a dream"

[JesusIsLord]

If early men knew what we know today, they would have ditched their fossil fuel use and gone green. They would have saved the Sahara from turning to desert. /s

LOL!!

[Resolute Conservative]

Tear down those pyramids, they caused it.

[TheDon]

Quite so.

[Bob434]

The industrial age sure put a stop to that!... oh wait.

[9422WMR]

It was the goats. They ate everything green until nothing was left but the sand.

[nuconvert]

I thought we already knew that it used to be green?

[Tell It Right]

Agreed. And here's the friendly neighborhood reminder of the kind of graphs that even NASA used to make before the political class tied conditions to funding climatology.

8,000 years ago we weren't coming out of the horrible Little Ice Age. I know when we think of deserts we think heat = dry. But it turns out that during the cooling periods is when areas are more liable to have megadroughts.

[Red Badger]

This cave stalagmite yields an actual timeline...............

[Lowell1775]

So.....I was reading this in my Weekly Reader 60 years ago and have seen many books/mags showing cave paintings of lush greenery and critters in the Sahara caves in later life...some more recent art showed greenery in what is not desert as late as the Phoenician, Greek and even Roman eras.

I was taught the ever rising Himalayas is what changed the weather patterns to cause both the Sahara and Gobi Deserts.

Bu they also taught me life began at conception and there were only two genders.

[nuconvert]

ahh

[jjotto]

If dating is accurate, the start of Egyptian building of giant pyramids was before the current desertification.

[al_c]

I thought we already knew this?

[Flag_This]

"I thought we already knew that it used to be green?"

For decades.

The scientists probably had to walk past the cave paintings depicting people hunting animals that can no longer live in the Sahara.

[Gay State Conservative]

later

[Red Badger]

Now we have a timeline.................

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember reading the ancient Sahara was green in a book over 65 years ago. Either in a LIFE or NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC magazine or book. This is not new info.