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A little over five million years ago, something terrible happened to the Mediterranean Sea. Global climate changes led to the blocking of the Strait of Gibraltar, and water from the Atlantic Ocean could no longer replace the water that evaporated from the Mediterranean basin. Within less than a thousand years, the wide sea dried up and disappeared - and its place was taken by a desert so hot, salty and desolate that our Dead Sea looks, in comparison, like a pleasant desert oasis... Five million years later, a German architect named Herman Sörgel decided to try to dry out the Mediterranean again - but this time intentionally.
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