The Sahara keeps turning up in my Atlantis research as a place that was not always desert: a fertile land, a sea, or an ocean floor, depending on who is speaking.
What is now the Sahara was an inhabited land and very fertile.
In The Exodus to Egypt Matias de Stefano describes people taking a southern route through fertile valleys in the region that is now the Sahara.
Jimmy Corsetti cites studies showing that the Sahara turned from a tropical environment into a desert about 4,500 years ago.
Scott-Elliot Scott-Elliot notes that the Sahara desert then formed part of the ocean floor.
Leadbeater writes that the Sahara Sea was shallow but carried the fleets that traded with Atlantis and the Algerian Islands.
On Beginning of the 5th Root Race Annie Besant has people shipped off through the Sahara Sea in a small fleet of thirty ships.
Oliver's travellers spend a night over Sattamund, the wasted land, which the page glosses as the Sahara desert of today.
For every page I tagged with Sahara, see the Sahara tag archive.
The reading places the Nile's mouth in the Atlantic and describes the Sahara as fertile:
What is now the Sahara was an inhabited land and very fertile.
It will be noted that the land outlines had then begun to assume roughly the same appearance they do to-day, though the British Islands were still joined to the European continent, while the Baltic Sea was non-existent, and the Sahara desert then formed part of the ocean floor.
catastrophe): Reduced to Poseidonis island; British Isles joined Europe, Sahara was ocean.
This period follows a major cataclysm in Zailm's era that alters global geography; draining inland seas to form the Sahara, carving the Grand Canyon, and redirecting waters, potentially fragmenting Atlantis.
3000 BC: Sahara; Canoes and elephants
In prehistory the Sahara was different, raining all the time, full of canoes and elephants, Lake Chad one hundred feet higher.
Moister conditions (~3000 BC, Oregon, Jordan, Sahara): Increased rainfall and higher water levels (e.g., Lake Chad) fit Kryon’s rain and new lakes, though gradual, possibly impact-related.
Sahara was an ocean.
Geographical Hints: Traditions place this lost world “beyond the great water”—sometimes interpreted as an ocean (Atlantic?) or a prehistoric inland sea (e.g., Mega-Chad, once vast in the Sahara).
Human History: The “first land” may echo prehistoric Saharan wet phases (Green Sahara, 10,000–5,000 BCE), when lakes and rivers supported advanced cultures, submerged as the desert grew.
The drying of Lake Tritonis, leading to the formation of the Sahara Desert.
The sinking of Atlantis caused significant geological shifts, including the formation of the Sahara Desert through the drying of Lake Tritonis and the breaking of the Isthmus of Gibraltar, which created the Mediterranean Sea.
Western Africa and the sands of the Sahara vanish in nature’s wrath, under savage attack by wind and ocean.
During the last glacial period, the Sahara was significantly larger than today, extending well beyond its current southern boundaries.
Once these ice sheets disappeared, the northern Sahara began to dry out.
Meanwhile, the southern Sahara temporarily resisted this drying trend due to an extended monsoon, which brought rainfall further north than it does now.
Today, the Sahara is as arid as it was about 13,000 years ago.
The transition toward a drier climate around 4,200 BCE (known as the desiccation of the Sahara) may have led to environmental pressures, migrations, and social upheavals—potentially inspiring oral traditions that were later integrated into the Exodus narrative.
The description of the Israelites wandering in the wilderness resonates with the experience of populations displaced by the desiccation of the Sahara.
The Wilderness: Echoes of nomadic adaptation during the Sahara’s desiccation.
After the flood, Egypt and the Sahara were lush and fertile, supporting thriving populations:
The once-green Sahara became a desert, forcing migrations to the Nile Valley, the Levant, and beyond.
As the Sahara dried, people moved toward more sustainable regions, such as Canaan or the Nile Delta.
Desertification (4,200 BCE): The drying of the Sahara forces widespread migration.
There are mysterious globules of fusedglass and vitrified rocks at cities deep in the strata of archaeological digs at Pierrelatte in Gabon, Africa.Similar evidence attesting to the possible use of nuclear weapons in the distant past also has been foundin the Euphrates Valley, the Sahara Desert, the Gobi Desert, the Mojave Desert, Scodand, Egypt (duringthe Old and Middle Kingdoms), and south-central Turkey.
Studies show that the Sahara Desert transitioned from a tropical environment to a desert approximately 4,500 years ago.
The construction of the pyramids may have coincided with a greener Sahara environment, which supports theories of an older Egyptian civilization.
Water erosion indicated a much earlier origin, potentially predating the desertification of the Sahara.
He called them to the coast and sent them by ship through the Sahara Sea.
Each voyage carried about 2,900 people to the eastern end of the Sahara Sea, and the voyage was made three times.
When Poseidonis sank in 9564 B.C., the bed of the Sahara Sea rose, a tidal wave swept over Egypt, and almost the whole population died.
For more on this land, see The Sahara: Fertile Land and Inland Sea.
The Green Sahara Period supports the existence of rivers, wetlands, and a navigable landscape in North Africa.
Atlantis was located in the Sahara Desert, though not specifically in the Eye of the Sahara.
This is the case with the Tuareg of the Sahara, the Afghans of India, and the aborigines of the banks of the Oronoco and the Amazon." (Winchell's "Preadamites, p.
It will be noted that the land outlines had then begun to assume roughly the same appearance they do to-day, though the British Islands were still joined to the European continent, while the Baltic Sea was non-existent, and the Sahara desert then formed part of the ocean floor.
Through the southern route, they traversed fertile valleys in the region that is now the Sahara.
At that time, the Sahara was much greener than we know it today.
Sattamund (The Wasted Land / Sahara Desert): A great desert, referred to as the Sahara desert of today, where the travelers spend a night.
The ruler of the Sahara and a great survivor, shaped by evolution into what it is: wide feet for moving on sand, a fat hump for storing food, highly efficient insulating fur (camel hair coats, sweaters, scarves), and so on.
We usually don't think about the fact that in this area, evolution didn’t have millions of years but just a few hundred years to create the camel, as the green Sahara, according to today's calculations, became an uninhabitable desert in just a few hundred years.
But we just said that North Africa (the Sahara and Egypt) wasn’t a desert.
But then how did it end up in the Sahara?
So now its easy: the Vikings brought the camel to the Sahara region from the north.
The camel was brought when the Sahara had already become a desert.
A fleet of thirty ships took about 2,900 people per voyage across to the eastern end of the Sahara Sea.
Adam fell into the island Serendib (Ceylon), Eve at Jedda, the Serpent into the desert of Sahara, the Peacock into Persia, and Eblis into the river Eila.
Sahara once green.
Live note places advanced ancient life away from empty desert, about 6,000 years ago on the page’s Sahara line.
What is now the Sahara was an inhabited land and very fertile.
Meaning: green Sahara, a different Nile outlet, and a rearranged Atlantic / American map in the Atlantean era.
Cayce Sahara–Nile geography sits beside Atlantis destruction and flood pages such as Altai Flood.
What does Cayce say about the Sahara and the Nile?In reading 364-13, Cayce says the Nile entered the Atlantic Ocean and that what is now the Sahara was inhabited and very fertile in the Atlantean-era geography he describes.
I keep that attributed beside the live green-Sahara note.
Atlantis (Poseid) experiences multiple cataclysms over centuries, including a major volcanic event during the protagonist Zailm's era (~10,114 BCE) that alters global geography: it creates the Sahara Desert by draining surface water in Necropan (Africa), forms the Grand Canyon through upheavals in Arizona, and redirects an inland sea to the Gulf of California.