Dairy farms once prospered in Sahara

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 14:30 in Earth & Climate

The sandy dunes of the Sahara may seem an unlikely place for a dairy farm, but about 7,000 years ago, herders tended and milked cattle in what is now desolate desert, new research shows.

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