| c.2000 | Due to Saharan dessication, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses and giraffes had already vanished, as reflected in Saharan rock drawings. | 2000 mxfld |
| c.2000 | WATERMELON cultivated in Africa. | 2000 TTPC-5 |
| c.1962 | SENUSRET, son of Amenhemhet-I, in Libya, learns of father's murder, tells no one. | 1970 BHoE 179 |
| c.1962 | SINUHE, noble under Senusret in Libya, overhears conversation about murder of Amenhemhet-I by tent of Senusret. Fears implication. Flees. | 1970 BHoE 179 |
| c.1500 | GHANA west Africa has domestic cattle and goats, pottery, stone axes, shale arm-rings and fine stone points. | 1500 mxfld |
| c.1500 | HORSES, in Egypt from 1750, taken west to Sahara. | 1500 bk |
| c.1200 | Rock carvings in Sahara portray CHARIOTS. | 1200 PW 15 |
| c.1150 | South MAURETANIA is in the so-called Naghes phase, showing circular compounds with evidence of cattle and goat herding, fishing and some hunting. People have stone axes, arrowheads, gouges, and pottery. | 12-1100 mxfld |
| c.1100 | UTICA on north coast founded by Phoenicians. | 1101 MWΦ 94, 230 1100 B76 17-944, CWH, WPOT 280, mxfld 8th or 7th cen. B76 X-314 |
| c.1100 | LIXUS on north coast, founded by Phoenicians. | 1100 B76 17-944, CWH, WPOT 280 |
| c.1100 | The SAHARA is not as desolate in the first millennium as it has become. | 1100 SHT 1-706 |
North Africa 1000-500
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