| skos:altLabel | - wet period
- 3900 BCE
- 5,500 years ago
- African Humid Period
- African Humid period
- Higher precipitation rates at the beginning
- Holocene Humid Phase
- Humid Period
- Intense aridification
- Saharan wet phase
- The Saharan area was wetter
- Wet Sahara
- \"green\" Sahara
- desiccation of the Sahara
- desiccation of the Sahara in c. 3500 BC
- desiccation of the Sahara in c. 3500 BCE
- more humid climatic context
- most recent one
- natural changes
- natural climate changes
- natural precipitation change
- precipitation was considerably higher
- significant decline in rainfall
- verdant vegetation and diverse wildlife
- As the Sahara dried out over the last few thousand years
- Egyptian climate was much less arid than it is today
- Gap has become wet enough to support rainforest, thus eliminating the savanna.
- Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 6000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt
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