“How did a green Sahara, Garden of Eden, became a Desert?”

Prabhupada, November 6, 1976, Vrndavana: […]  Very dark, yes. First thing, there will be no rainfall. Due to the sinful activities of the people, from nature the punishment will be, there will be no rainfall. I have seen already in Europe. Everywhere there is scarcity of rainfall. […]

Dr Kevin White of the University of Reading and Professor David Mattingly of the University of Leicester explain how they used satellite technology and archaeological evidence to reveal new clues about both the past environment of the Sahara, pre-Egyptian high culture, and of human prehistory in the area. “Green Sahara” ancient place of lost Atlantis, Garden of Eden? To know this we have to study the great desert of Sahara. At the same time we will see the possible effects of cow butchering in India. (indianjournals.com)

Thousands of engravings in the desert rock depict a time when elephants, giraffes, and ostriches roamed the land, and archaeologists have found stone tools and ceramics that have enabled them to get a sense of what life was like for the people drawn to this remote region.

Scientists of the MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Research in Bremen (Germany) and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremerhaven (Germany) studied a marine sediment core off the coast of Northwest Africa to find out how the vegetation cover and hydrological cycle of the Sahara and Sahel region changed. The scientists were able to reconstruct the vegetation cover of the last 120.000 years by studying changes in the ratio of wind and river-transported particles found in the core. “We found three distinct periods with almost only river-transported particles and hardly any wind dust particles, which is remarkable because today the Sahara Desert is the world’s largest dust-bowl,” says Rik Tjallingii.
The Sahara – quintessence of the desert: one of the world‘s, most adverse, hostile regions was still largely unknown territory at the beginning of the 20th century. Until in 1933 the Austrian adventurer Ladislaus Almásy discovered cave paintings in the middle of the desert. These pre-historic works of art depicted a heavenly world filled with the large African animals , rivers, lakes and bathing people. The desert explorer had come across one of the most intricate puzzles of climatic history. The largest tropical desert of the world must once have been a luxuriant Garden of Eden. Following Almásy’s trail, the many time award-winning Austrian natural history film-maker, Michael Schlamberger searches for traces of this exciting chapter in the natural history of the Sahara.
Reserves of water are a legacy of the sahara’s lush, green past, the remains of its giant lakes and rivers, and this is just one aquifer.

Ostrich eggshell beads indicate that just 7,000 years ago, the sahara enjoyed its final burst of life before returning to desert. The secrets of the sahara have finally been revealed. This desert is not a static wasteland.It’s dynamic and full of life, capable of blossoming into lush, green terrain.

Scientists are now using ground-penetrating radar to locate and map other aquifers across the Sahara.
Freshwater shells show that 90,000 years ago, a wobble in the earth’s axis created giant lakes and rivers and turned the Sahara green every 20,000 years.