Although there is a consensus that there were wet periods (greening events) in the Sahara
in the past, the spatial extent and the timing of these greening events are still in dispute, yet …

There is very little dated evidence on wet periods in the Eastern Desert and Sinai Peninsula
of Egypt during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. To obtain such information, we have …

Geotourism is a form of maintainable tourism that emphasizes the geoheritage
characteristics of a district. Karst landforms are one of the most imperative appealing aspects …

Systematic survey by the Abydos Survey for Paleolithic Sites project has recorded Nubian
Complex artifact density, distribution, typology, and technology across the high desert …

The spectrum of glacial-interglacial environmental shifts in the southern Levant
Mediterranean zone is evaluated based upon carbon isotopic records of speleothems from …

Wet climatic episodes are known to have prevailed in the Egyptian Sahara several times
during the late Quaternary, most recently during the Holocene 8000 yr ago. Earlier wet …

We present the first speleothem-derived central North Africa rainfall record for the last glacial
period. The record reveals three main wet periods at 65-61 ka, 52.5-50.5 ka and 37.5-33 ka …

Speleothem deposits in nowadays arid environments are important climate archives, as they
indicate phases of enhanced precipitation and can precisely be dated by uranium-series …

The central part of the Western Desert of Egypt, where the Bahariya and Farafra oases are
situated, possesses many notable geological features. However, to date the related …

Abstract Green Sahara periods (GSPs) represent episodes during which the present-day
Sahara was transformed into a savannah in response to intensification of the West African …