Most MYSTERIOUS Secrets Of The Sahara Desert!

Check out the Most MYSTERIOUS Secrets Of The Sahara Desert! From unexplained discoveries made in the desert to other strange facts you probably didn't know, this top 10 list of incredible facts about the sahara desert will amaze you!

8. It Was Once An Oasis
Around 11,000 years ago, the northern strip of Africa that is now occupied by the Sahara Desert received lots of rain and was full of vegetation and water, including forests, lakes, grasslands, and an extensive network of rivers.

7. Mysterious Stone Structures
Archaeologists recently spent several years studying hundreds of stone objects found in the Western Sahara territory. These stones are estimated to be thousands of years old and people used to make little figures and structures out of them.

6. The Eye of the Sahara
The “Eye of the Sahara,” also known as the Richat structure, is a 25-mile-long geologic formation that looks like a bull’s eye and can only be noticed from a bird’s eye view. It’s located in Mauritania in the western Sahara Desert.

5. Cosmic Glass
Earlier this year, scientists published a study about the origins of Libyan desert glass, a naturally-occurring, canary yellow material that has been prized for its beauty for over 3,000 years. Libyan desert glass is made of the purest silica ever found on Earth. It formed around 29 million years ago as the result of some type of event involving temperatures above 2,192 degrees Fahrenheit (1,600 degrees Celsius).

4. An Ancient Megalake
As technology continuously improves, researchers are learning more about the ancient structures and formations that lie beneath the Earth’s surface. In 2010, scientists discovered evidence of a prehistoric megalake in the eastern Sahara. It was formed around 250,000 years ago when the Nile River pushed through a low channel and flooded the region.

3. Thriving Civilizations
In 2011, satellite images revealed the ruins of a long lost civilization that existed before and during the Roman era in the Sahara Desert. In areas where there appears to be nothing but desert, the images show that extensive development once existed. The “Garamantes” civilization that occupied the region around 1,000 BC was highly advanced, despite Roman descriptions of them as uncouth and barbaric.

2. IT’S EXPANDING
With an area of 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million sq. km), the Sahara Desert is roughly the size of the United States, and it’s getting bigger. Over the past century, it’s grown by about ten percent, and scientists believe this may be partially due to climate change. The deserts are growing and the forests are shrinking.

1. The Lake of Gafsa
In July 2014, a shepherd in discovered a lake in the desert about 15-and-a-half miles (25 km) from the Tunisian town of Gafsa - where there shouldn’t be a lake. The 2.6 acre body of water measured 59 feet (18 meters) deep and was named Lac de Gafsa.

[philliphaasbroek]

According to Plato the Eye of the Sahara is the remains of Atlantis.

[delonteshanks]

Look up waw an namus lake in Libya. Its a giant embryo. It has changed every year

[stanpalmerzan]

Am I the only one who is annoyed by the narrator guy pronouncing the city of Leicester as Lichester instead of Lester how it's meant to be

[martinlofthouse]

there are three more eye of the sahara at the bottom of Egypt

[sojournsojourntraveler]

If the Sahara had a Boiling River like the Amazon everything would be different.

[Raz.C]

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[SULLIEDASP]

Maybe one more Atlantis a flood made it like it is and the rise of the ground eye of Africa I thing is Atlantis.

[TimCurry]

The was Atlantis right beneath the Atlas mountains, right next to the Atlantic Ocean, exactly how Plato described it with the rings within rings for the Ruling Twin Kings for each of the rings. This place was definitly swept out to sea.

[saracammarota]

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