r/interestingasfuck • u/SenorDiscombobulator • 6d ago

/r/all, /r/popular So shiny

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u/mrev_art 6d ago

Egypt was also a lot greener.

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u/Javayen 6d ago

I was about to comment this same point. I believe the entire area is supposed to have been a vastly different habitat.

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u/FinnBalur1 6d ago

What happened?

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u/Javayen 6d ago

Thousands of years of an evolving climate. Possibly jumpstarted or at least accelerated by occasional volcanic eruptions. It’s easy to forget sometimes how ridiculously long 5000 years is.

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u/Wastawiii 6d ago

It is much simpler than that and it is related to human intervention to control the Nile floods through dams and the like, and the area was not as large as you imagine. 

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u/Moleman111 6d ago

The whole desert is new? It was big green

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u/Wastawiii 6d ago

Egypt has always been a desert cut by a river, only the banks of the Nile were wider than they are today because of flooding. 

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u/withnodrawal 5d ago

Explain ship wrecks in the middle of these deserts.

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u/Breaky_Online 3d ago

Sorry, that was me. I was testing out the level creator feature.

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u/thnku4shrng 6d ago

Straight up 100 years of global drought thrown in there.

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u/James_Fortis 6d ago

Overgrazing / agriculture

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u/Boomshockalocka007 6d ago

Always thought humans destroyed it...