Sascha is a U.K.-based trainee staff writer at Live Science. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Southampton in England and a master’s degree in science communication from Imperial College London. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and the health website Zoe.
Coordinates: 21.114714464479544, -11.394300583868517 The"Eye of the Sahara" — also known as the"Eye of Africa" or the Richat structure — is a giant rock dome, carved with concentric rings, that looks like a giant bullseye when seen from above. The eye is visible from space and has been known to astronauts and scientists since the earliest crewed missions in the 1950s, according to the European Space Agency .
Related: Mystery of enormous Saharan 'star dune' finally solved — and it wasn't what scientists were expecting The Eye of the Sahara is a geological marvel, but it also holds archaeological significance, according to Geographical, a magazine published by the U.K.'s Royal Geographical Society. Excavations have unveiled 2-million-year-old Acheulean and pre-Acheulean tools that are associated with two species of ancient human ancestors: Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis.
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