What's Hidden UNDER The Sahara's Sand?

[@Awakeandalive1]

Fun Fact: The Sahara is a cyclical desert, expanding for a few thousand years, then shrinking for a few thousand more before then expanding again, etc. etc. ad infinitum. The Nubian Empire of Kush, for example, fell in large part because they existed during the beginning an expansion cycle so all their arable agricultural land desertified. The Earth is not steady, not constant, but in a state of constant flux. We used to be able to grow good wine grapes in England, for example.

[@JesusFriedChrist]

Exactly. The climate has been changing for the last 4.5 billions years, and taxing us or making us drink from soggy straws isn’t going to stop it.

[@АндрейЕрмилов-х8п]

They stole it from us

[@lovestrong3582]

So the Sahara turning green will be a positive thing for Africa then.

[@sladjanab]

And its not the climate change we did. We are just ants on this mega structure - earth. It has its own cycles, years of ice age, years of fludd and years of drought

[@tarekaziz877]

The Nubian empire of Kush was 2000 years after the first ancient egyptian dynasty, so what is your point ?

[@ironiccookies2320]

Just think about all the lost civilizations and cultures buried under that sand.

[@miliba]

Perhaps it can be proven that the Pyramids were built by highly advanced aliens

[@eyesj531]

@@miliba the pyramids were built by me

[@NOBodYknoys111]

We're not lost, you just don't know where we are. P.S. Don't come looking

[@DT-wp4hk]

Europe and 🇺🇲 will follow soon

[@cosmos3-z7u]

ocean

[@teri2466]

The Sphinx was created from ancient limestone, which developed when the Sahara was part of an ocean. 😊

[@BoskiM]

Wrong it was most likely created by the nephalim

[@teri2466]

@BoskiM 😂🤣😂🤣

[@BoskiM]

​@@teri2466😂😂 you are making a presumption when you were not there 😅

[@teri2466]

@BoskiM And you have a ticklish brain 🤣

[@BoskiM]

@teri2466 you burt hurt because you know I'm right hehe 🤪

[@Hiddensecret9]

The Sahara’s cyclical nature highlights how Earth is always changing, with climates shifting dramatically over millennia. Civilizations like the Kush had to adapt-or collapse-when fertile lands transformed into deserts during these natural cycles

[@timothysilvester4688]

ai comment

[@TrevorJC]

Real cool video, Geography is by far my fave subject. The Sahara holds immense secrets of the Earth's past. I wonder if we'll be able to map it all out with high tech soon?

[@IdahoFatTireBikeFun]

Under the sea Under the sea Darling it's better Down where it's wetter Take it from me Up on the shore they work all day Out in the sun they slave away While we devotin' Full time to floatin' Under the sea

[@TylerR909]

We just gonna ignore "Lake Mega-Chad"? lmao

[@wtpauley]

Lol, I came here so see if anyone else caught this too.

[@sakura613]

I didn't even notice but now that you pointed it out; Hahahahaha!!!😂

[@patrick0uch]

i had to do a double take on what he said lmao

[@Chad_Thundercock]

It roughly translates to "place of gathered water" And yes, it was named after me.

[@leandersearle5094]

>formed from ancient monsoons >survived thousands of years of desert >still provides the fortunes and livelihoods of entire civilizations Yep, definitely deserves the name.

[@raymondmartin6737]

I have read it rained a lot recently in the Sahara with lakes forming. 😅

[@jimmytwotimes2758]

Geo-engineering ,testing weather manipulation

[@timetraveler2518]

There is a lost civilization beneath the Sahara Desert. About five thousand years ago, when the climate turned hot and dry and the Sahara environment turned to desert, people went underground and built a new civilization beneath the Sahara desert, where water resources were abundant. The Lost Army of Cambyses, fifty thousand Persian troops vanished in the Sahara desert in 524 BC. They could have gone beneath the Sahara desert when they were trapped in a powerful sandstorm. None had returned alive, nor no word from them. Check this information about the Lost Army of Cambyses.

[@Timbo6669]

That is a hell of a claim.

[@richardgreen8003]

This begs the question, where did all the sand in the Sahara Desert come from?

[@josiahhockenberry9846]

Probably just some lame answer like 'erosion', which actually doesn't explain anything. Good luck on getting an actual answer that doesn't just end with "cause science".

[@andreiu85]

it didn't come from anywhere per se. it was created over time by errosion of the existing rocks exposed to vast temperature differences and wind errosion

[@wordytoed9887]

@@josiahhockenberry9846What’s with your pessimism today, old chap? Relax. Take a load off. We’re on KZbin.

[@lucylane7397]

@@josiahhockenberry9846why does that not sound plausible it happend in a decade in the dust bowl last century in America

[@TheU.S.]

It happened in a very quick amount of time so probably climate change

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Very interesting and the music contributes to the learning experience.

[@michaelgrabianowski6567]

I once heard a podcast with a diver who explored some of these aquifers . She would access them through wells scattered around the desert. They are immense and everywhere.

[@petersguazzato8291]

Well that’s amazing and how different our world would be if the Sahara were to remain a tropical paradise 🤔👏👏

[@buddyloyal8420]

Very well done as usual my friend, and kudos to you ! From: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA

[@flyonbyya]

What a brilliant channel! I’ve NEVER not been thoroughly impressed by any video!

[@raymondmartin6737]

I have read in the past, when it becomes cold at night ice can be formed on a small amount of water on a roof of a building, can form a layer of ice, known as Egyptian Ice. 😅

[@ohitsjaelon]

I’ve never seen that in Egypt in person, but I’ve definitely seen it in Las Vegas where there’s snow on top of the mountains in the desert and it’s hot as hell outside

[@denisehorner8448]

Great video! 😊

[@jerrysstories711]

I have one bucket list item left, but it's too dangerous and probably always will be. I want to hike from Lake Kivu to Lake Edward, past the volcanoes of the Great Rift Valley, over the continental divide between the Congo River catchment and the Nile River catchment. Could you do an episode on that area, which I'll probably never get to see?

[@lucindahalley4611]

My question is where did all that sand come from?

[@Diaplek49]

@@lucindahalley4611 it came from the earth

[@Frankenspank67]

Obviously God made it

[@denisehorner8448]

It might have come from the breakdown of rocks.

[@Maria63756]

Comes from earth and rocks

[@jflatley38]

Awesome video! I thoroughly enjoyed this new format. Learned a lot! Thanks, Geoff!

[@sdgsuperstar]

Beneath the sand, paleontologists have discovered fossils of large prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs like Spinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus. Additionally, fossils of ancient megafauna, such as giant crocodiles, elephants, and giraffe-like creatures, indicate that the Sahara was once teeming with diverse wildlife, similar to the savannas of today.

[@williamtomkiel8215]

lidar should be making revelations

[@StPalliGrl]

At 0:55 he says the climate changed due to a shift in the earths axial tilt....what caused the earth to tilt even more then it already was?? Maybe this can explain the climate change but why did that part of Africa turn into dessert again? Did the earths axial tilt move back to where it was? When you make a statement for how something changed so drastically then after some time it goes back to its original state you better make a statement that explains how that happened as well.

[@leftear99]

The Earth's tilt changes periodically, it wasn't a catastrophic event. It is something that has been going on since the impact that created our moon

[@loisrossi841]

Great video, thank you.

[@ChaseBerggren]

Excellent video!!

[@ashrafali-sb5zr]

The Sahara Desert, the world's largest hot desert, spans approximately 9.2 million square kilometers across North Africa. It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east, covering 11 countries, including Algeria, Egypt, Libya, and Morocco. A geographic map of the Sahara highlights its vast sand dunes, rocky plateaus, gravel plains, and dry river valleys. Despite its arid conditions, the desert hosts unique oases and supports a surprising diversity of life, including date palms, camels, and resilient desert flora and fauna.

[@adammegh1022]

I’m currently living in the sahara in hassi messaoud to be exact if anyone wanna ask something i will try to answer it

[@tanpadeusz1951]

wowww thanks for the heads up!! I'm curious how do you usually travel to another town through that sea of sand? like what means of transport do you use? and how often do you leave your town in general??

[@GeronFletcher]

Good question

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

More sand.

[@mia-tu2hh]

Atlantis, ancient pre-civilizations, aliens and unknown wisdom.

[@kimjohnson8471]

I love this format! Can you do one on Death Valley?❤

[@Lucia-sy7le]

No. Absolutely not. It's too hot 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@Lucia-sy7le]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@kurtwaldheim4048]

Just a little nit pick. The Nubian aquifer is far underground. It has nothing to do with the _current_ sand, it is in the sandSTONE of Chad, N Sudan, Egypt and Libya. This area is only partially sand covered, a lot has no sand cover. As you mentioned, the Sahara has only 20% sand cover. Even in the great ergs, the sand lies in bands, called draa, typically around 1 mile wide with an equal amount of reg between the bands of dune. It is less common that the sand forms a continuos layer, there is most often an interdune area. Even so, these big draa dunes are thought to have existed also in the humid period, just without smaller ridges on top and covered in vegetation, being hills. So nothing from the humid period is underneath these dunes, because the dunes would have been fixed by vegetation and soil on top. Could there be dunes with remains underneath? Maybe, in areas with just the right age of the dunes. This would require some very specific conditions, but I guess it is possible.

[@Belabartok-lt8pv]

How deep is the sand in most areas.thanks BB

[@dianequist835]

Thank you for showing a picture of our Mt. Garfield in Colorado ❤

[@AncientWildTV]

this video was really fascinating and well-researched! i never realized how much history could be buried beneath the sahara. however, i can't help but wonder if the focus should shift more towards the modern implications of these findings. i mean, shouldn’t we consider how this affects the people living there today? it feels like a missed opportunity to connect the past with the present. what do you all think?

[@dutch1589]

Richat structure is said to be Atlantis by Authors trying to sell a book or two even though the story of Atlantis was never expected to be taken literally by Plato.

[@joshentheosparks7492]

@dutch1589 platonic scholars tend to disagree because it was used in a colloquialism to balance an analogy. This doesn't prove that it existed, just that the general population believed it existed.

[@dutch1589]

@@joshentheosparks7492 You obviously know way more than I but a college professor said is was written in code to the Athenian upper class regarding the hatred they had for the Athenian Navy and the democracy that gave the rowers political power. The three circular harbors of Atlantis was actually the three harbors of Athens and the Army that defeated Atlantis was a refection of the respect the upper classes had of Sparta. Plato was promoting the rejection of the Navy in favor of an army and strip away the power of the rowers.

[@casspeich926]

Atlantis was a very real place and obviously you know it as well otherwise you wouldn’t have brought it up lol

[@jandrews6254]

Whether Plato told you that himself or not, the fact is that there are huge salt deposits in Mauritania that are still collected and that’s where the Richat Structure is

[@v.e.7236]

That Eye of the Sahara looks like a metor strike, w/ its concentric circles.

[@1213stmarie]

I really enjoyed this video and I learned a lot! I like the music, too.💖✨💫

[@susanmoore9839]

What caused the change in the Earth's tilt?

[@ETLee-db6cn]

@@susanmoore9839 - look up "Milankovich cycles". Basically there are (at least) three cycles in the Earth's orbit and rotation affecting the eccentricity of the orbit (oblong-ness to coin a word), the tilt of the axis, and the direction the axis points to. None of these is fixed, they each vary in regular cycles with different periods of tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand years.

[@leftear99]

The Earth's tilt changes periodically, between 22 and 24.5 degrees. It's a process that has likely been going on since the impact that created our moon, and is influenced by gravitational forces exerted by the outer planets

[@masterimbecile]

2:01 only a megachad, not gigachad

[@SixtyNice420]

This video was accidentally leaked by a treasure hunter who will become mad once he finds out that many viewers know about the existence of treasure chests beneath the Sahara's sand.

[@pit5000]

If we did remove all that sand, where would we put it?

[@mboucher711]

Loved the video format!

[@sebbvell3426]

Make a video about the Amazon forest

[@Joe-mp5sd]

Export sand to sinking islands to save Sahara and islands

[@BnaBreaker]

Probably not a giant crocodile.

[@omer_kaygin]

I am not into motorcycles but subscribing just for this lovely video. Thanks.

[@ArcaneUniverse-24]

4:49 - This piece of information was completely new to me! 🔍 Thanks for the great content!

[@frankchika4459]

The circular structure in the Western Sahara is speculated to be like the ancient lost city of Atlantis. Scientist have speculated that the circular shape aligns with structure of other ancient cities in Europe and elsewhere. They might have been levels of moats, separating water and land, as described by Plato.

[@edhoj]

Hej från Sverige

[@MeanBeanComedy]

6:56 Where would the dust come from, then??

[@sakura613]

Very interesting. It makes sense that ancient civilizations would be buried under all that sand. And seeing those whale skeletons, you can just imagine what it might have looked like back then. Some even believe that the giant circular formation in Mauretania was the city of Atlantis.

[@JohnnyRedpilled]

There are old maps of the Sahara showing it covered in rivers, lakes and cities.

[@undertone2472]

This video was MegaChad!

[@dfmdoes]

I love it. So much knowledge and history. Things people just don’t think to question or ask. Some do and I thank you for bringing this knowledge to us

[@donchaput8278]

@4:00 It feels like gen Z named the types of desert

[@Inmortlish]

its arabic naming and he is pronouncing it totally wrong

[@dort5436]

Where does sand come from or get created?

[@dianaquirk7926]

Brilliant!

[@neohabilis7412]

well done. thank you.

[@mikezizis3725]

Given the condition of worldwide increasing hurricanes, tornadoes, and the now clearly here watery world, it seems likely that these conditions will find their way occur across the currently dry seemingly waterless surface of the Sahara. Without getting in anyway occult about it, scientists have unearthed Mayan inscriptions that feature a post dec 21, 2021 World that becomes increasingly the realm of the waters. If that becomes even more true in the coming decades, does this mean increasingly dryer Amazon?

[@AKSnowbat907]

You need to work on your titles - it shouldn't take more than 1/2 the damn video to get to the fricking point.

[@natek3954]

Can you do an episode on the geography of lentils?

[@Lucia-sy7le]

????

[@Jeudaos]

with so much potentially being hidden under the sand. perhaps atlantis wasn't drown by a 'wet' sea.

[@jimmytwotimes2758]

It was dumped there Old maps shows Sahara as green

[@michaelraine8111]

Yes, but where does the sand come from? and where will it go?

[@Grant918Tulsa]

1:42 that fisherman has a perfect afro🤔

[@PrinceTaRiG]

7:07 bro hasn't answered the question yet😂

[@FakeTahoe]

I think the region got hot and with exposure to sun, wind, bird poop, a couple thousand freak thunderstorms storms, more bird poop -> et voila sand

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

Amazing WOW

[@paultcareycarey7960]

Cheers mate

[@shaun8256]

Oh boy! Now we know where the mars rover really could be! Happy Thanksgiving!!

[@Noobsareawesome1234]

Wow

[@markel-dweek2917]

Now it's on to physical geography!

[@jonathanhughes8679]

So when will the dessert go back to a wetter climate??

[@muskyoxes]

Should have been called Lake Gigachad

[@Creoles.nature]

This is why I consider holt books history books in disguise

[@thomasmacdiarmid8251]

3:07 you mention the evidence of fish, but you have a picture of a basilosaurus, an early form of whale. Definitely not a fish (note the horizontal tail flukes) and despite the -saurus in the name not a reptile or dinosaur, but a mammal. Good evidence for a more aquatic environment, but not a fish.

[@caseclosed9342]

The Kingdom of the Deserters is under the Sahara

[@ALT3REDB3AST]

When the Sahara region is dry, the Amazon is green and wet. When the Amazon dries out, the Sahara region will be green again.

[@DancingFlnger]

Wadi = Valley Wadis = Vallies

[@gregnoesen2256]

But where did all of that sand come from???

[@MikeMcG58]

Where did all the sand come from?

[@Lucia-sy7le]

From all the hour glasses that were emptied when watches were invented.

[@gianpaulgraziosi6171]

Atlantis!

[@baystated]

Oh, the irony of the film Sahara, which wasn't popular, based on a book about waters of the desert, and the author hated the film, which is understandable.

[@alexcoons3257]

After watching this, be sure to give Graham Hancock a second thought.

[@Chrishelmuth1978]

Or maybe don't, and watch Minuteman instead

[@greenjackle]

Hello Fellow Humans, I wonder how much of this was natural and how much was humans. Because Egyptians and Rome definitely yook advantage of the Northern African area. They cut trees to build their cities and farmed it to death. Which allowed the desert to take over faster. I mean within my lifetime Lake Chad has drastically shrunk. I remember being in school learning about lake chad and it was much bigger. So humans have screwed this area up even more.

[@vegaanisliveupdates-u7s]

Bet there is no Deinosuchus. There

[@melaininezaid9744]

salut to you from mauritania

[@TapioSusi]

That big gator under there?

[@richardbicycle5262]

atlantis!

[@michaelmedeiros9337]

The music is distracting from the information

[@shabbapaul9983]

For everyone who wants to know more about deserts, here’s the 1953 Disney classic “ The living desert” It won 4 Oscar’s and even has moving rocks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpjMpoWgeaybia8feature=shared

[@Pancho4217]

That was an early whale not a fish!

[@adrianwolff2007]

Oil probably.

[@couchwarrior2449]

I'll tell you what's hidden under the sands of the Sahara...MORE SAND!!

[@TheRoon4660]

Can the music. Do not drown out your narrator with noise of any sort. Save your music for pauses in the narrative. Even quiet music is annoying.

[@jdwallace6312]

Think about all that black gold baby!

[@leongliyang6946]

My cat's litter box is Sahara

[@dirkbindemann1852]

There is sand in the Sahara

[@Oldguy-k3t]

I think if you dig anywhere in the world you'll find evidence of ancient civilizations.

[@Lucia-sy7le]

In Chicago, you'll find dead bodies.