Rock paintings from Manda Guéli Cave in the Ennedi Mountains, Chad, Central Africa. Camels have been painted over earlier images of cattle, perhaps reflecting climatic change.
Posted on 09/20/2021 8:28:26 AM PDT by fishtank
The lush green Sahara
by Mike Oard
Posted 9-20-2021
The Sahara Desert of northern Africa is one of the driest and hottest locations on Earth (figure 1). In the eastern Sahara, it rains only once every 30 to 50 years. The Sahara Desert covers about 9,200,000 km2 (3,600,000 sq mi), comparable to the size of the entire USA. It is divided into several regions, sometimes by high mountain ranges such as the Ahaggar and Tibesti Mountains (figure 2). Some 74% of the Sahara is covered by sand, with several large ‘sand seas’, such as the Great Sand Sea of eastern Libya and western Egypt which covers 72,000 km2 (28,000 mi2).
This article is from Creation 42(3):45–47, July 2020
Rock paintings from Manda Guéli Cave in the Ennedi Mountains, Chad, Central Africa. Camels have been painted over earlier images of cattle, perhaps reflecting climatic change.
Image and caption from article.
Camels have been painted over earlier images of cattle, perhaps reflecting climatic change......
Looks like they were generating too much greenhouse gas.
I guess they didn’t build enough solar panels to stop the climate change?
As a matter of fact, thanks to “global warming” Sahara is greening again! Just Check Wiki.
The rain is returning to Sahara, and vast areas are turning back from desert to Savana. Still rather arid, but full of grasses and plants, the animals are returning too. All because of more CO2 in the atmosphere!
But you would never find that in “the media”!
They might learn something from the Great Man-Made River project in Libya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
However, since while large, their aquifers are limited, they should put their money into nanotube desalinization. That is, pipes with nanotubes only large enough to pass water, not salt.
I think the earliest evidence for camels in North Africa is in 46 B.C.
I don’t see any animals that are definitely camels—I’d say they are giraffes.
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Seriously dout it. Where are the brown patches? I’m not familiar with any history of humans domesticating and riding giraffes. Would be kind of hard to do with their very long legs and sloped backs.
domesticating and riding giraffes.
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But they likely hunted them.
Otherwise, they are recording their existence. Probably scavenged some meat in competition with the other wildlife, as well.
As to the patches. Nothing else looks like a giraffe. So the silhouette is an adequate identifier.
There are varieties of camelids, but the longest necked ones in South America are still way shorter/differently-shaped than a giraffe.
When was Noah’s Ark? They must have had giraffes!!!!
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