6,000 Years Of Climate Change Through Egyptian History
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 09:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
If depictions of animals in ancient Egyptian artifacts are an accurate climate record, they have helped scholars assemble a detailed record of the large mammals that lived in the Nile Valley over the past 6,000 years. They then determined that species extinctions, probably caused by a drying climate and growing human population, made the ecosystem progressively less stable. read more