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The Sahara desert is as old as we thought. Science say the Sahara is around three million years old. However, a new from a centre for climate says it could be seven million years old. Researchers used to calculate when parts of North Africa became desert. Their showed that global warming seven million years ago dried a lot of the in what is today's Chad. A sea called the Tethys Sea started . This cut the number of monsoons, which helped make sand in Chad. The scientists say this is how the Sahara started.

The Sahara is one of the best-known and deserts. It covers about 10 per cent of Africa. It is very big in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Sudan and other . It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the . Not everyone thinks the Sahara is seven million years old. A in Germany says more is needed to be . He said the new research is just based on . He said: "Nothing you can find in the Sahara is older than 500,000 years old". Our of the Saharan starts from 10,000 years ago. That knowledge is "full of ".

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