Michael Button
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You could fit anything in there, like a whole...
like preceding civilization for 9,000 years leading up to ancient Egypt.
Like it's the perfect place.
It's right by Mesopotamia.
And yet we have this blank spot for the 9,000 years before the development of civilization, which is kind of also the gap between, I mean, it's a little bit less than this, but the gap between Quebec and the birth of civilization, we have this huge area, which would have been perfect for civilization full of rivers, lakes, grasslands, perfect climate.
So my theory is that things were happening in the Sahara Desert when it was green, in the Green Sahara, for those 9,000 years.
And then because it was really quick, that's what I don't think people realize is that when the Sahara Desert turned from, you know, green lush paradise, whatever you want to call it, to a desert, it was like a few centuries.
It's called rapid desertification.
It flipped, not overnight, obviously, but in a few centuries compared to 9,000 years, it's a rapid change.
And for any kind of culture that was living there, you wouldn't have noticed it straight away.
But in 50 years, you'd be like, fuck, it's getting a bit hot here.
I think maybe people migrated to the last stretch of green that was still available to them, which was the Nile River.
And then the kind of survivors or the migratory populations developed around the Nile River and using the kind of experience and knowledge that they had from their lives and the kind of history of their cultures in the Green Sahara period, that is what led to ancient Egypt.
I mean, that's just a theory.
Yeah, the kind of explanation away of that also never made sense to me, that it's wind and sand, because when you see pictures of the Sphinx, even from when they kind of found it in Napoleonic times, it's buried in sand.
And there's records from the Egyptians themselves who excavated it effectively because it was covered in sand.