Who discovered the Sahara Desert?

Answer 1

Dr. Newton Jibunoh is the present-day explorer who has crossed the Sahara alone -- twice. He is a Nigerian who has devoted his life to the prevention of desertification.

But the answer to the question who reached the Sahara first, is completely lost in the sands of time. Actually the Sahara was an area of grasslands and lakes (already inhabited by people) until it became a desert because of climate change as recently as about 4000 BC. And today the desert is still expanding -- a somber fact that people such a dr. Jibunoh would want to whole world to know. Scientists are warning us that millions of African people could be forced to move elsewhere in the near future because of this desertification.

Answer 2

There is no record of who originally discovered the Sahara Desert. However, during historical times, the Berbers inhabited part of it.

Answer 3

Man evolved in or very near to the Sahara so that desert has always been a part of human life and lore. We are talking millions of years.

Answer 4

Sahara is the Arabic for "great desert".