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Sahara Yields Ancient Cemetery

Find shows desert was once lush, green, populated

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 15, 2008 2:13 PM CDT

(Newser) – Explorers hunting for dinosaur bones have found a Stone Age cemetery deep in the Sahara desert, National Geographic reports. The team of paleontologists discovered bones from two separate ancient human cultures that lived in the region as long as 10,000 years ago, when monsoon...   Read full story »

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