• Exhibition
• Researcher's daily routine
• From macrocosm to microcosm
• Deserts and savannahs
• The desert moves
• Adopting and sharing
• Exploration and travel
• Narrative and memory
• Fighting and negotiating
• Preservation and support
• Project Representatives

"The desert moves" and was moving thousands of years ago. Archaeological finds in southern Egypt provide evidence that the present-day desert must once have been a landscape of savannahs in which it was possible to hunt, graze livestock and harvest wild grain. In a 25 meter deep salt lake in the remote region of north east Chad it was possible to take a drilling sample which gives a complete record of climate and environmental changes over the last five thousand years and can show, for example, whether there was a dust storm or plague of locusts in the region in summer 1664 BC. The microscope image shows whether a corn of sand was transported to the present-day desert by wind or by water.