When the Sahara was Green: Sahara was a Fertile Land where Man Lived.

A word can illustrate images of sands and great heat with men starving to death, beast dying everyday of thirsts and plants going dry because of lack of water.

That word is Sahara. But Sahara was a fertile land where man lived. Plants grows there and animals roam at will. There are vivid works of arts that shows what life was like when the Sahara was green.


The Negroid Race of People that Lived in Sahara


It may sound very unbecoming but life really existed in Sahara. There is numerous evidence both geographical and archaeological, that once Sahara was a green and fertile country where Negroid race of people lived and hunted and tended a large variety of terrestrial and aquatic animals.



These animals includes: Elephants, fish, buffaloes, mollcues, and also the extinct wild oxen from which all European breeds of domestic cattle are believed to be descended.


Caves and Rock Paintings in Sahara


The most concrete evidence of life in Sahara lies in the magnificent caves and amazing rock paintings which have been discovered all over the Sahara region.


There are found especially at Tassili and N’Ajjer. There is a greater abundance of prehistoric rock paintings in the Sahara than in any other area of the world. These paintings today provides us with the earliest known expression of Negroid art.


Land Mass of the Sahara


The Sahara is the world largest desert. Sahara extends for 3.3 million sq. miles, an area almost as large as the united state of America.



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