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Showing posts with label Sahara Desert. Show all posts
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January 9, 2016

5000 Year Old Skeletons on Bed of Flowers in Sahara Desert

This is a truly remarkable story of a recent Archaeological find. 

Representation of skeletons found
 "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." Source: Daily Mail Reporter

Continue reading this story at Amazing 5,000-year-old skeletons laid on bed of flowers found in Sahara - proving desert was once green and lush