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The city of tennis was consumed by the desert in the sandstorm which lasted a whole year, wiped clean by the wrath of God.

Indiana Jones's friend Marcus Brody explaining the fictional fate of the city of Tannus in Raiders of the Lost

Arc.

Back in real life, scientists have found something else covered by the Sahara's sea of sand,

an ancient river system.

The remains of the main channel, which dried up long ago,

wind beneath the West African desert for more than 300 miles

before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers, led by Charlotte Sconeatsney of the University

of Leal in France, uncovered the system using a kind of satellite-born radar that can penetrate

through several feet of dry surface sediments like sand.

The scientists think that the network may extend even farther inland, but thick dunes prevented them from mapping it.

They report their findings in the journal Nature Communications.

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