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

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