How an ancient society in the Sahara Desert rose and fell with groundwater With its low quantities of rain and soaring high temperatures, the Sahara Desert is often regarded as one of the most extreme and least habitable environments on Earth. While the Sahara was periodical...

A series of serendipitous #environmental factors allowed an ancient #Saharan civilization, the #Garamantian Empire, to extract #groundwater hidden in the subsurface, sustaining the society for nearly a millennia until the #water was depleted. #History #climate #Africa phys.org/news/2023-10...