Sahara

The letter was written in a cryptic fashion, and despite its length, it didn't provide much information.

However, the envelope containing the letters also contained several photographs, each depicting the aftermath of a massacre that had occurred in a small village near the Sahara Desert.

The bodies of both Spanish soldiers and Arab civilians had been horrifically mutilated before and after their deaths.

Although the circumstances surrounding the slaughter were unclear, Jared's Australian friends seemed to treat the location as a tourist attraction.

When Lucas's twin brother dies in a helicopter crash, a grieving family friend and geneticist, Dr. Albury, secretly clones Lucas using in vitro fertilization.

The clone grows up to be an exact genetic duplicate, leading to a bizarre love triangle where Jade is torn between the original man and his younger clone, culminating in the scientist and his clone disappearing into the Sahara Desert.

Yeah.

Yeah, somehow in that show, the clone quickly becomes almost the same age as the original.

Uh-huh.

Yeah, White Sands is just this, basically, I felt like I was in the Sahara Desert.

It's crazy.

Do people get lost out there? I haven't heard of anyone, but it's huge.

Now, one of the big things that we'll be talking about, and this is by far probably the biggest issue ecological event, if not the world, which it could be at this point, but definitely the biggest ecological event in Africa.

And it is affecting everyone that is living in the continent during this time frame for this volume, which, just for everyone to be aware, is 4,000 to 2,000 B.C., B.C.E., Now, the desertification or the aridation of the Sahara, this process has been going on for quite a while at this point.

It's just a question of...

And this is something that is still being investigated, still being studied.

When is this desertification starting? When is it accelerating? And when is it finally taking place? And from what we've been able to gather, it does appear as if different portions of the Sahara area, uh, aridify or become desert at different times, uh, which, you know, the Sahara is a huge portion of the continent.

It makes sense that it wouldn't happen all at once.

Um, however, it is debated again, how quickly this happens, which reasons or which regions see it first.

Yeah.

What could possibly be weirder than a gorilla? It would be over 2300 years until gorillas were finally identified by western science.

Now we are moving on to another African mystery, the Green Sahara.

In the modern day, the Sahara is the largest desert on Earth.

But only 6,000 years ago, it was an extremely lush land home to hundreds of thousands.

But just as the rains brought the desert to life, they would eventually leave, drying the Sahara starting 6,000 years ago.

Migrants fled to the burgeoning civilizations like Egypt, and the sand consumed the old Eden.

The Green Sahara phenomenon has happened dozens of times in prehistory, and is influenced by changes in the Earth's tilt, as well as fluctuation in the African monsoon.

Due to the difficulty in excavating deep into the Sahara, many of these cultures still remain understudied, although thousands of sites have been found.

I am now guilty of like, I need water on me at all times, or else I feel like I'm going to die.

Like, I feel like I'm in the Sahara desert without anyone.

I'm always like,

water, please.

1,300 years, 7th century to the 20th century.

Up to 17 million black Africans dragged across the Sahara Desert by Muslim slave traders.

And here's what they did that no one else did.

They castrated all the men and the boys, every single one.

You guys just keep me alive here.

I'm in the depths of the Sahara Desert or something down here.

Anyway, I've got a quick question.

This Bond wide receiver that's playing for the Browns, and I guess he's not fancy too much anymore because he's dropping a lot of stuff or whatever.

What are the immigrants in France? They're mostly from Africa.

Arabs from the north of Africa and black people from the south of the Sahara in Africa.

Now, are there immigrants in France? Absolutely.

We know why there are immigrants because capitalism as a system over the last four centuries, has organized the world in a very unequal way.