Arabia Used To Be Green
Archaeology is now seen as important part of nation s identity history as more important discoveries are being made.
Arabia used to be green. Stories from the holy quran. A new hypothesis suggests that humans may have tipped the balance. Saudi history do you know that the saudi desert used to be a green jungle. By 2032 the country strives to generate as much as a third of.
Saudi arabia aims to become the world s foremost market for renewable energy with an aggressive investment budget of 109 billion. Nowadays arabia is a fierce desert but it was once densely vegetated and could have been a home to the first humans that left africa. The vegetation and small episodic rain pools. Ancient saudi arabia was once lush and green.
With that title we were trying to break down. Stager s research suggests that as the sahara turns green it could trigger a warming trend out to sea in the atlantic ocean that would make our weather here in the eastern us far more volatile. In the egyptian sahara semi arid conditions allowed for grasses and shrubs to grow with some trees sprouting in valleys and near groundwater sources. What really turned the sahara desert from a green oasis into a wasteland.
The main rival of president mahmoud ahmadinejad in the iranian elections mir hossain mousavi has adopted green as his signature color. The flags of iran saudi arabia and the palestinian group. 10 000 years ago this iconic desert was unrecognizable. You can say green arabia but it was only green for brief periods he suggests that any arabian forays by modern humans were short and ineffectual.
Until he or others can bring home the bones arabia is a complete unknown when it comes to species he says. We called it green arabia because many times in the past arabia was green with grasslands wooded landscapes rivers and lakes says prof petraglia.