It has long been known that the Sahara Desert, today one of the driest and most inhospitable regions in the world, was quite the opposite thousands of years ago.
Around 14,800 to 5,500 years ago, during what is known as the "African Humid Period", the Sahara Desert was not the sea of sand it is today. Rather, it was a region of lakes, grasslands and savannas, favourable for agriculture and animal husbandry, and inhabited by human settlements.
