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Ancient Lakes Beneath the Gobi Desert Once Sustained Human Life 8,000 Years Ago
Polish–Mongolian team uncovers evidence that one of Earth’s driest regions was once a green corridor for prehistoric hunter-gatherers. Long before the Gobi Desert became a realm of dust and wind, it was a landscape alive with water. A network of ancient lakes — now vanished — once formed a mosaic of fertile basins across what…