The Sahara desert in ancient times considered one of the most mysterious places on Earth. Scientists from all over the world are struggling with the mystery of its appearance, but still have not reached a consensus. Researchers from Norway proposed his own theory of the emergence of the greatest desert.

Experts Norwegian Centre for weather research in Bergen believe that the Sahara desert has emerged much earlier than they say. The results of their own research with the latest version of the origin of the Sahara they released in the prestigious journal Nature.

Researchers conducted a new modeling of the Earth's climate and concluded that Sugar appeared on the place existed at the time of the ancient Mesozoic Tethys ocean. According to experts, this ancient ocean began to disappear from approximately 7 to 11 million years ago. This situation contributed to the weakening of the African monsoon and further shear flow humidity of the tropical Atlantic further South.

According to the acquired data, the Tethys ocean completely disappeared about 5 million years ago. However the Sands of the Sahara, which may not seem large, demonstrate that the desert might have been formed, not 2 or 3 million years ago, as was previously, and about 7 million years ago.

Sugar - the Earth's largest desert, located in the North of the African continent. It stretches approximately 4.8 km from West to East and from 800 to 1.2 thousand km from North to South
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