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Join Royal Military Academy Sandhurst expeditions to southeast Libyan Desert in northern summers of 1962 and 1963. Both expeditions were organised and run by Captain David Hall, Royal Engineers. We discover abundant signs of prehistoric human occupation at Jebel Arkenu ring complex in 1962 and on the Nubian Sandstone plateaux we mapped in 1963. We find evidence of multiple episodes of previously wetter climate in this now hyper-arid region. I am prompted to ask what caused these changes in climate and whether they also occurred in other deserts.
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Williams, M. (2016). Expeditions to the Libyan Desert (1962–1963). In: Nile Waters, Saharan Sands. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25445-6_4
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