Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Graded Summary 2: Fertile past unearth from sands of Arabia


Fertile past unearth from sands of Arabia
 
            Satellite images from Nasa answered most questions about how African people travelled to the rest of the world. Those images provide much information about historical background of the Arabian Desert. It shows that the Arabian Peninsula was rich with rivers that connected together. Many sites have been discovered such as Al Nafud desert in Saudi Arabia, Jebel Faya in UAE and many others. The most ancient human site and the latest one was found in Sharjah, which carried evidence about three different Paleolithic settlements from many years ago. The archaeologists knew that African people crossed Bab Al Mandab when they found stone tools near the Strait of Hormuz. The sites and theories provide archaeologists with good evidences about human presence. There are many things that changed the Arabian Desert to what it is nowadays. The change in climate conditions affected the Arabian Peninsula. Climate change reduced sources of life such as: water and food and that why most of people faced difficulty to survive.

 

 

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Fertile past unearthed from sands of Arabia
The National 17 May 2012

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