Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

Word spread to even the most isolated parts of Mauritania. The search was on. The desert outpost town of Bir Moghrein in northern Mauritania. Mohamed Bagouma stands for a portrait with his ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and ... the OASIS Initiative, an international ...

The fascinating North African beings are thought to have roamed the Sahara Desert thousands of years ago. Their genetic makeup was shockingly different to what scientists usually expect to find ...

Whenever we think of the Sahara Desert, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of sand and extreme dryness. But do you know that the desert was not always this arid and once had water and ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of ...