US Ambassador to Libya killed

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The cave paintings are astonishing because they are quite recent - say 10,000 BC down to just a few years BC - and yet they show elephants, giraffe, zebra - fauna that you now have to go to Kenya to see - so we know that the climate must once have been very different, with no Sahara. The Romans called Libya "the granary of Europe", it was so fertile. The Emperor Septimus Severus died in York but was born in Leptis Magna.

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The cave paintings are astonishing because they are quite recent - say 10,000 BC down to just a few years BC - and yet they show elephants, giraffe, zebra - fauna that you now have to go to Kenya to see - so we know that the climate must once have been very different, with no Sahara. The Romans called Libya "the granary of Europe", it was so fertile. The Emperor Septimus Severus died in York but was born in Leptis Magna.

Yep. When I was out in the desert, there were places where there were flint arrowheads everywhere. From a time when man was hunting the local animals for food etc. ( I wasn't aware of the cave paintings ). It was a different landscape then.