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Sahara Desert Excavation (Photo Gallery):
Two members of Meave Leakey's prospecting team cut burlap strips that will be soaked in plaster and wrapped around 1.9 million year old hippo skull for protection. This measure will strengthen and protect the remains of the animal. Three generations of the Leakey family have found hundreds of 1-4 million year old human fossils for over fifty years. There were two football-field-size cemeteries found on this excavation site (© Meave Leakey)

06.05.13 at 14:31

Journey Across the Sahara Desert (Photo Gallery):
A boy walks the family cows home each night from 7-8 km away. He is Wodaabe. The Wodaabe may be the closest modern relatives to the groups found at the huge archeology excavation site. Not much has changed over the years. (© Mike Hettwer)

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National Geographic Channel

06.05.13 at 14:30

Sahara Desert Excavation (Photo Gallery):
This 8,000 year-old giraffe rock carving in DaBous, Niger is considered one of the finest petroglyphs in the world. The giraffe has a leash on its nose implying some level of taming the animals. It was found relatively recently on the top of a granite hill by local Touaregs and dates to the Kiffian era of 7,000 - 9,000 years ago. (© Mike Hettwer)

National Geographic Channel

06.05.13 at 14:28

Sahara Desert Excavation (Photo Gallery):
Frequent sandstorms blew up to 50 km per hour in the blink of an eye cover the skeletons with such a layer of sand that it tooks a day to excavate them back.

National Geographic Channel

06.05.13 at 14:28

Sahara Desert Excavation (Photo Gallery):
Six thousand years ago, a mother and two children died at the same time and were buried here holding hands. Someone obviously cared a great deal, as the scientist found that flowers were placed above and below the bodies. It is not yet known how they died. (© Mike Hettwer)

National Geographic Channel

06.05.13 at 14:26

Sahara Desert Excavation (Photo Gallery):
Nigerien Army guards, on hand for protection from possible bandits, watch over the excavation of a 6,000 year old skeleton at a very rich archeology site in the Sahara Desert in Niger. Over 250 skeletons and thousands of tools, weapons, pot shards and ornaments were found in this site in the Gobero area. (© Mike Hettwer)

National Geographic Channel

06.05.13 at 14:24

Journey Across the Sahara Desert (Photo Gallery):
The Gobero archeology excavation site is an utterly desolate area of the Sahara, so remote that camels are never seen. This wide aerial view of camp shows distant sand dunes, the team's tents and a tiny group of archaeologists excavating skeletons. Looking at it today, It is hard to believe this was the Green Sahara thousands of years ago.

National Geographic Channel

06.05.13 at 14:23

Journey Across the Sahara Desert (Photo Gallery):

In the city of In Gall, Niger, men from the Wodaabe tribe dance and sing furiously at the Gerewol festival, their movements imitate, probably, abruptness of sandstorms. The Gerewol is an annual courting festival where the men try to look as beautiful as possible so they are chosen for mates by Wodaabe women. The women can select up to four men. And if a man is not chosen, he will be very lonely for the next year.