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Maaike pictured an antelope with a calf and recognizes different styles, like the artists joined different courses. There are sculptures made out of two or three lines who perfectly pictures the animal and even his character. Others are more squares or just a sketch. She wanders around looking for a text, a name, a map or something similar. The people who once lived along the borders of the Sahara Sea were well educated. Conform the Greek historian Herodotus they built ships, navigated the world and wrote books!
This prehistoric proves that wildlife and mankind once inhabited the Sahara dessert. Animals migrated through the savannas and the woods. Eating grass or each other. All gone and turned into sand. What kind of disaster has happened?
Maaike finds a point of an arrow, a fossil of a fish and some shelves. Carefully we examine the subjects. Our imagination pictures hunters sharpening their knives and women polishing the arrow points made out a special kind of stone: feather light and incredible strong. We vision a village where children prepare dinner and take care for the youngest. Finally the hunters leave to catch a deer, an ox or a wild boar.
People say that once a long time ago - seafarers landed in Maroc and traveled through the Atlas Mountains to build their boats on the sandy beaches of the Sahara Sea. On their way to Egypt they paused at Taghit, the Hoggar Mountains and many more places.
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