Fun facts.
If you find a machine which goes in a speed of 3×10^8 m/sec, you can see the past and future. You can even travel for longer distant objects like stars
It dried up.
North Africa used to be a fertile grassland, even swampy in some spots, 12,000 years ago. By 1000 BC (actually quite a while before) it had dried up into what is the the largest desert i the world: the Sahara.
Thay didn't. They just drew their maps differently. They never owned more land