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dot com. History. You are standing in water about waste deep. It is muddy and slow, lapping against the roots of gnarled trees which sprout all around you.

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

saw 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 kilometers 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, swabro

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