Fire on the Desert Sands

Around 14,000 years ago, a wet period that lasted for nearly eight millennia transformed the dry Sahara into a second Garden of Eden. Traces of its ancient inhabitants, including those occupying the land that is now Libya, have been grist for the mill for modern archeologists, including Desiree.

There is danger there. Various factions in a divided country still fight to dominate certain portions of the land. They fear that scientists will unearth information about the ancient inhabitants an...