Its incredibly old. Its made completely of the purest silica quality sand. Some have suggested it was dumped from a massive tidal wave after a comet impact, that swept across Africa. That, not only melting the last ice age into the sea..but perhaps penetrating an area of sand beneath the ocean floor that burst upward and was dumped. It makes no sense as a 'desert' compared to every other in the world, which have habitats and life forms in them, no matter how sparse.

The Pyramids and the Eye of Sahara on the other side of the North African region have somehow, lost every thing that coated or sat on top of them. Landscapes in the Sahara look like the moon. Its sand is dense and deep. What is beneath it?
In some edges, on the outer of it, the Valley of the Kings emerged and completely altered Egyption history.

Yet, where the Sahara sits today, was once, a vastly forested, tropical band, that was narrower, during the Ice age period.
How long has the sand been there. How is it linked to the Pyramids? Is it linked to any other ancient peoples? Does it contain concealed caves and passages, perhaps whole, vast, undiscovered lost civilisations. There are huge, old caves deep under the pyramids.

What, is going on, with that 'completely unflawed, consistent sands with unending dunes. What if we slowly siphoned out sections within the sand, like ice core or peat bog samples? What would we discover? Doing better quality under-sand land mapping. Not a plant, ever grows in the sandy dunes that go on endlessly. That's almost unheard of in 'living deserts'. (I know, I live in a nation full of them and have been a bit lost in one once scarily (Australia)

Can we take a look at, the lands that lie, at the base of the Sahara and perhaps, what's beneath them?

The area is very big, i think you need to be more specific.

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The whole video is interesting however at 16 minutes hear Randal Carlson discuss the effects of a major catostophe involving water on the Richat structure.

I could listen to Randal Carlson for hours. And you lucky duck -- you can too !! If you watch this video you'll be able to impress your friends on Global Warming and why its a crock--

On Cataclysmic ice age melting leading to massive Fauna death in North America etc etc. That theory was discounted for the more popular theory that man hunted most of the animals into extinction.

Turns out the theory of a huge asteroid hit got a huge boost of support with the discovery an an 18 kilometre crater discovered under Greenland.

Which leads to the theory that there was a massive destruction responsible for the end of the last ice age.

This then supports Graham Hancock's theory that there could or was a civilization wiped out at about 12 to 14 thousand years ago.

Which leads to Egypt and the age of sphinx-the water erosion of the great sphinx which didn't have that type of rain except at the end of the last ice age--which supports the theory that the sphinx is much older than the archaeologists are reporting- well you get the idea.

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