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You are standing in water about waist-deep. It is muddy and slow,

lepping against the roots of knalled trees which sprout all around you.

Dragonflies flit past or are light on branches, hiding from the shadows of winged beasts which soar overhead.

In the water, fish of great size, some larger than you swim past lazily.

They have nothing to fear, at least not from you.

All around, trees grow thickly in a vast swampy expanse.

You are in a mangrove, an enormous wetland that stretches for hundreds of kilometres in either direction.

If you didn't know better, you would think you were in the Nile Delta, the green expanse which now dominates the north of Egypt.

But you're not in the Delta, you're not even in the Nile. Technically, you're in the Sahara Desert.

Our story today takes place 95 million years ago, in the time we know as the Cretaceous Period.

We are here to meet the prehistoric inhabitants of the land that became Egypt.

This far back, the world is a very different place.

For starters, the Nile is nowhere to be seen. The Sahara is also missing.

Instead, Egypt and North Africa are tropical, with great humidity and wet environments.

Egypt is closer to the equator and the lands which became Sahara are covered in water, swamps, trees and animals.

There is also a large ocean.

95 million years ago, a vast sea stretched across North Africa.

We call it the Tethas and it covered land from Spain to Malaysia and everything in between.

The water level was high and most of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, were submerged beneath the waves.

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