5,000 year old skeletons prove Sahara once green

Amazing 5,000-year-old skeletons laid on bed of flowers found in Sahara - proving desert was once green and lush
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:56 PM on 14th August 2008


A tiny woman and two children were laid to rest on a bed of flowers 5,000 years ago in what is now the barren Sahara Desert.

Researchers discovered the slender arms of the youngsters still extended to the woman in a perpetual embrace.

The remarkable cemetery is providing clues to two civilisations who lived there, a thousand years apart, when the region was moist and green.
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