Beneath the Sands: The Lost Worlds of Earth's Forgotten Deserts (ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS AND MYSTERIES, #4)

For thousands of years deserts have been seen as the empty edges of civilization—vast, silent landscapes where little of human history ever happened. But what if those deserts were not always barren? What if beneath the dunes lie the traces of rivers, lakes, grasslands, and the forgotten pathways of ancient people who once moved across landscapes that are now impossibly dry?

Beneath the Sands explores the hidden climate history of the world's great deserts and reveals how dramatically the ea...